Eliakim ben Meshullam

Eliakim ben Meshullam Halevi (born about 1030; died at the end of the eleventh century in

payyeṭan

.

He studied at the

yeshivot in Mainz and Worms, having Rashi

as a fellow student. Eliakim himself founded a Talmudical school in Speyer.

He wrote a commentary on all the tractates of the Talmud except

Berakot and Niddah (see Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29, and Asher ben Jehiel, Responsa, Rule 1, § 8), which was used by scholars as late as the fourteenth century. At present there exists only the commentary on Yoma

, in manuscript (Codex Munich, No. 216).

Ritual decisions by Eliakim are mentioned by Rashi ("Pardes," 42a, 44c, 48a). He was the composer of a piyyuṭ, to be read when a circumcision takes place in the synagogue on a Saturday.

References

Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 28
Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 221
Leser Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 24
Berliner, in Monatsschrift, 1868, p. 182
Heinrich Grätz
, Gesch. vi. 364
Epstein, in the Steinschneider Festschrift, pp. 125 et seq.
idem, Jüdische Alterthümer in Worms und Speyer, pp. 4, 27.

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