Capitolo 73
their sight. They is our masters in Talmud, and to them we have to go for
education." From the eleventh to the fourteenth century, a French
school of Talmudists occupied him with the elucidation of the
Talmud, and from the "Sums" (_Tossafoth_) what they compiled them
it is known as Tossafists. The Tossafistses were animate with a complex
different spirit from that of the Spanish writers on the Talmud. But
although their method is very involved and end-clever, they exposes this way
a lot of dominion of the Talmud, discrimination so excellent and so acute a
critical acumen, that they earned well their fame you/they have enjoyed. The
more first Tossafists is the family and pupils of Rashi but the method
scatters from Northern France to Provence, and for this motive in Spain. The more anymore
Famous Tossafists is Isaac, the child of Asher of Speyer (the end of the
eleventh century); Tam of Rameru (the nephew of Rashi); Isaac the Elder of
Dompaire (the nephew of Tam); Baruch of Ratisbon; and Perez of Corbeil.
The admiration of Nachmanides for the French method--a method from anybody means
tightened to the Tossafists--you don't blind him to his/her defects. "Them
you try to force an elephant through the eye of a needle", him sarcastically
says of some of the French casuists. Nachmanides possessed so some of
the characteristic of independence of the Spanish Hebrews. Him also divided the
poetic spirit of Spain and his/her hymn for the day of Reparation it is one of
the most excellent products of the new-Hebrew the muse. The last raced rooms this way:
Thine is the love Or God and thine the grace,
That contains the sinner in his/her mild embrace;
Thine the pardon, making a bridge on o'er the space
'The jobs of man of Twixt and the assignment put by the King.
Careless all of my sins, I grab on me to thee!
I know that mercy is able stool of thy both:
Before I call, Or ago you respond me,
Not at all challenge me I say of thee my King!
Or you that guilt of makest to disappear,
My help, my hope, my stone that I won't fear;