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Yefet ben Solomon ha-Levi
12th Century
Yefet ben Solomon ha-Levi was a scribe living in Fustāt (Old Cairo). Moses Maimonides employed him to make a clean copy of the Mishneh Torah.
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Mishneh Torah
The Mishneh Torah (Repetition of the Law) is a monumental legal compendium, and the most influential rabbinic work of the medieval period. Written in the 1170s in Egypt, the Mishneh Torah was…