Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rabbinic scholar from siponto in italy”. Today it says “rabbinic scholar from siponto”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “12th century commentator on the Mishnah”. It now reads “12th-century commentator on the Mishnah”.
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Isaac ben Melchizedek ( Hebrew : יצחק בן מלכי צדק ; also known by the acronym Ribmaṣ ריבמץ ; c. 1090–1160), was a rabbinic scholar from Siponto , Italy, and one of the first medieval scholars to have composed a commentary on the Mishnah , of which only his commentary on Seder Zera'im survives. Elements of the Mishnaic order of Taharot are also cited in his name by the Tosafists , but the complete work is no longer extant. Cf. the Sefer ha-Makhri'a ( Leghorn , 1779) of Isaiah di Trani (nos 62, 86, et al. ); Chaim Yosef David Azulai in Shem ha-Gedolim , i. 106 and E.E. Baba Metsi'a 30a, Tosafot s.v. אף עובד דניחא ליה)
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12th century commentator on the Mishnah Isaac ben Melchizedek , also known by the acronym Ribmaṣ ( ) (c. 1090–1160), was a rabbinic scholar from Siponto in Italy, and one of the first medieval scholars to have composed a commentary on the Mishnah , although today only Seder Zera'im survives. Elements of the Mishnaic order of Taharot are also cited in his name by the Tosafists , but the complete work is no longer extant. Cf. the Sefer ha-Makhri'a ( Leghorn , 1779) of Isaiah di Trani (nos 62, 86, et al. ); Chaim Yosef David Azulai in Shem ha-Gedolim , i. 106 and E.E. Baba Metsi'a 30a, Tosafot s.v. אף עובד דניחא ליה)
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12th century commentator on the Mishnah Isaac ben Melchizedek ( ; also known by the acronym Ribmaṣ ריבמץ ; c. 1090–1160), was a rabbinic scholar from Siponto , Italy, and one of the first medieval scholars to have composed a commentary on the Mishnah , of which only his commentary on Seder Zera'im survives. Elements of the Mishnaic order of Taharot are also cited in his name by the Tosafists , but the complete work is no longer extant. Cf. the Sefer ha-Makhri'a ( Leghorn , 1779) of Isaiah di Trani (nos 62, 86, et al. ); Chaim Yosef David Azulai in Shem ha-Gedolim , i. 106 and E.E. Baba Metsi'a 30a, Tosafot s.v. אף עובד דניחא ליה)
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