Baal HaIttur

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Categories: Klalim

Alt Names: Sefer HaIttur

Exported: 2025-12-30

Klalim

1. Unfortunately, Sefer HaIttur is full of mistakes.¹
2. The Ittur always quotes the Rif.² He even wrote a sefer "Me'ah She'arim" on the Rif.³
3. The Agur recommends following the Ri Baal HaTosafot over the Ittur.⁴
4. The Ittur is also known as Sefer HaDibberot and Ittur Sofrim.⁵

References to other Rishonim

1. "HaRav HaTzarfati" in the Ittur is a reference to Rashi.⁶
2. "HaRav HaBavli" is the Rambam, and "HaRav Krovno" is the Raavad.⁷
3. "HaMechaber" in the Ittur is R' Yehudah Ben Barzilai Albarceloni, who was a great Rav and author of Sefarim.⁸
4. "Rabbeinu Yaakov" is a reference to Rabbeinu Tam.⁹

References

¹: Yad Malachi (Klalei Shear Mechabrim 20)

²: Yad Malachi (Klalei HaRif 28)

³: Shem HaGedolim (Sefarim, Mem 2)

⁴: Shem HaGedolim (Gedolim, Yud 368)

⁵: Shem HaGedolim (Sefarim, Ayin 32, 99) See Menachem Tzion ad loc fn. 16

⁶: Yad Malachi (Klalei Shear Mechabrim 21)

⁷: Hagahot of Rav Yerucham Fishel Perlow to Yad Malachi (Klalei Shear Mechabrim 21)

⁸: Yad Malachi (Klalei Shear Mechabrim 21). See Shem HaGedolim (Gedolim Yud 271) and Yeshurun vol. 16 page 82

⁹: Yad Malachi (Klalei Shear Mechabrim 26)