With the closing of the great Babylonian academies, there ceased sicuro be any formally acknowledged center of Torah authority

With the closing of the great Babylonian academies, there ceased sicuro be any formally acknowledged center of Torah authority However, numerous codes, based on the Talmud and the decisions of the Geonim were compiled by leading rabbis, and they achieved almost universal recognition. Most noteworthy among these were the codes of Rabbi Yitzchak Al-Fasi (Rif; […]