Peretz ben Elijah
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)Perez ben Elijah of Talmudist Elijah of Tours. In Talmudic literature he is designated by the abbreviations RaP (= Rabbeinu Perez), RaPaSh (= Rabbeinu Perez, may he live), and MaHaRPaSh (= our master Rabbeinu Perez, may he live).
Perez had for masters
Samuel of Evreux. He traveled throughout Brabant, and sojourned for a time in Germany, where he made the acquaintance of Meir of Rothenburg. On his return home he delivered lectures on Talmudical subjects, which were attended by the most celebrated rabbis of the fourteenth century. His fame as a Talmudical authority eventually became universal, his commentaries being studied in France, Germany, and Spain
. He died before 1298, probably in 1295.
Perez was the author of the following works:
- Glosses on the Ammude ha-Golah of Isaac of Corbeil, published together with the text, Cremona, 1556.
- Commentaries on the greater part of the Bezaleel Ashkenaziin his Shiṭṭah Meḳubbeẓet.
- Glosses on the collection of the ritual laws entitled Tashbaẓ of Samson ben Zadok, published together with the text, Cremona, 1556–1561. He also commented masechet Nazir.
- Sefer Pereẓ, a Masoreticwork which is no longer in existence.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Executive Committee of the Editorial Board and Isaac Broydé (1901–1906). "Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. It has the following bibliography:
- Abraham Zacuto, Sefer Yuḥasin, ed. Filipowski, p. 233
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii. 149
- David Conforte, Kore ha-Dorot, p. 17
- Leopold Zunz, Z. G. p. 41
- Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2643
- Ernest Renan-Adolf Neubauer, Les Rabbins Français, pp. 449 et seq.
- Henri Gross, Gallia Judaica, pp. 565 et seq.
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