Better is a handful of ease than two handfuls of toil and chasing after the wind.

Kohelet 4:6

Itzhak Segal

Itzhak Segal

Itzhak Segal
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    one of the great "scholars of Worms" and a teacher of Rashi. According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer was "known as segan Leviyyah-meaning a Levite", and in Rashi's commentary on the Talmud, Rabbi Isaac is referred to as "Leviyyah". The acronym of Segal is used in the introduction to "Sefer Maharil". The editor, the Maharil's disciple Rabbi Zalman, writes of the Maharil (Rabbi Jacob ben Moses Levi Moelin, Mainz 1360-1427): "he is noted in the gates by his designation 'MaHa"R Jacob Moelin'; however I have included as his epithet 'MaHaR"I Sega"l' because he was from the tribe of the Levites".

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Itzhak Segal

(about 1000about 1000 Gregorian
about 1000 Julian
about 4760 Hebrew
- 10701070 Gregorian
1070 Julian
4830 Hebrew
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