Shibolei HaLeket [“The Gathered Sheaves”: Rabbinic code]

The most notable of the 13th-century Italian codes, Shibolei HaLeket discusses the laws of ritual and festivals. In the introduction, the author states that his purpose is to sift through the mass of opinions, those decisions that might be relied upon to teach the correct mode of religious conduct. See M. Waxman, Vol. II, pp. 130-132. Tradition has it that the Anav (Heb. Min-Ha’Anavim) Family was one of four aristocratic families Titus brought from Jerusalem to Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 c.e. Zedekiah ben Abraham (1225-1297) was one of many distinguished Talmudists to emerge from this illustrious Roman family