Editing Chananel ben Chushiel (section)

==Works==
R. Chananel wrote the first extant systematic commentary on the [[Talmud]], today included in the [[Vilna edition]] Talmud page on certain [[Masekhet|tractate]]s. The commentary, only parts of which survive, addresses sections of the Talmud relevant to legal practice at the time of writing: the orders [[Moed]], [[Nashim]], and [[Nezikin]]. Some fragments have been recovered from the [[Cairo Geniza]]h and are published in B. M. Levin's ''Otzar ha-Geonim'', though certain fragments may in fact represent geonic material from which R. Chananel copied,<ref>Ta-Shma, Israel Meir (1999). "הספרות הפרשנית לתלמוד". Vol. 1</ref> in particular the work of [[Hai ben Sherira|Hai Gaon]]. R. Chananel's commentary presents a paraphrased summary and explanation of the main arguments in the [[gemara]], omitting most of the non-legal sections ([[Aggada]]) as well as sections that R. Chananel considered too simple to warrant further explanation. A distinctive feature of the commentary is the presentation of the parallel passages from the [[Jerusalem Talmud]]. He is one of the most widely quoted commentaries by all the rishonim including [[Rashi]], [[Tosafot]] and the [[Isaac Alfasi|Rif]]. His opinion is highly regarded in halacha and correct versions of the texts which is used as a basis for Maimonides and many other later halachic authorities. In places where we don't have his commentary, his opinion is usually known from other sources due to mass quotation from all the ''[[Rishonim]]''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} An edition of the commentary published by Vagshal covers tractate Berachot and order Moed, which also includes the ''Sefer ha-Mafteaḥ'' of his colleague [[Nissim Ben Jacob|Nissim Gaon]].

R. Chananel also authored a [[Rabbinic literature#Meforshim|commentary]] on the [[Torah]], cited by many later Biblical commentators, chiefly [[Bahya ben Asher]]. This commentary is to some extent directed against the [[Karaite Judaism|Karaite]]s.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} While no full copy of this work survives, we possess many fragments of it; it has recently been published by the  ''Mosad Ha-Rav Kook'' as a separate work, as well as in the ''Torat Hayyim'' [[Mikraot Gedolot|Torah edition with commentaries]].

Other works by Rabbeinu Chananel include [[responsa]]; a number of  [[Rishonim]] attribute to him the anonymous "Sefer ha-Miktzo'ot," [[posek|decisions]] on [[halakha|ritual law]].{{chart/start}}
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