Editing Asher ben Jehiel (section)

== Influence ==
During the Toledo era of [[History of the Jews in Spain|Spanish Jewish history]], the influence of R. Asher ben Jehiel and his followers, who maintained a distinctly [[Talmud|Talmudic]] rabbinic approach, was significant. However, the wider intellectual Jewish culture was deeply drawn to philosophy, with [[Zaragoza]] emerging as a prominent center where philosophy was studied alongside Talmudic scholarship within the local ''[[Yeshiva|yeshivas]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marciano |first=Yoel |title=Sages of Spain in the Eye of the Storm: Jewish Scholars of Late Medieval Spain |publisher=Bialik |year=2019 |isbn=978-965-536-266-4 |location=Jerusalem |pages=231 |language=he}}</ref>