Isaac of Ourville (Hebrew: {{Script/Hebrew|יצחק מאורביל Yiṣḥaq me-Orvil,) was a medieval French rabbi, author of the as yet unpublished Menahel, a book of halakha (Jewish ritual law).
Isaac appears to have been a contemporary of Perez of Corbeil (died);[1] Isaac cites Moses of Coucy's Semag, from the generation before Perez, while segments of Isaac's Menahel are, in turn, cited alongside the Perez's teachings. His master was Hayyim of Blois,[2] who is possibly identical with Hayyim ben Isaac the Frenchman (Hebrew: {{Script/Hebrew|חיים בן יצחק הצרפתי), the author of Ez Hayyim on Jewish monetary law, a disciple of Samuel of Evreux.[3]
Carmoly and others read as "Orbeil", a village in the Puy-de-Dôme department, while Gross considered this unlikely, as Orbeil probably had no Jewish population in medieval times. According to Gross, is probably Ourville (Ourville-en-Caux), Seine-Maritime, or perhaps Orville, Orne. Isaac is thus sometimes named HaOrvili (or HaOrbeli). He was confused by Samuel David Luzzato with a similarly named rabbinical authority, Isaac ben Dorbolo, after Rapoport's misinterpretation of the latter's patronymic as "d'Orbolo".[4]
Selections of his halakhic book, HaMenahel (Hebrew: {{Script/Hebrew|המנהל "the Guide"), were incorporated in the closely related pair of halakhic works, Orhot Hayyim by Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen and Kol Bo, and, anonymously, in the halakhic decisions of Menahem Recanati.[5] Once considered lost, parts of the Menahel are now known to exist in manuscript.