Isaac Ben Judah HaLevi
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Isaac Ben Judah HaLevi
Isaac ben Judah HaLevi () was a History of the Jews in France, French Exegesis#Judaism, exegete and tosafist; lived at Sens, probably, in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was the pupil of Haim of Falaise, Ardennes, Falaise, whom Heinrich Gross (rabbi), Heinrich Gross identifies with Chaim Paltiel. Works Isaac compiled, under the title "''Pa'aneaḥ Raza''" (Hebrew: ), a commentary on the Pentateuch, in which literal interpretations ("''peshaṭ''") are frequently intermingled with "Noṭariḳon" and "Gematria, Gemaṭriot." The authorities quoted by Isaac are Joseph Ḳara, Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor, Joseph Bekor Shor, Judah he-Ḥasid, Eleazar of Worms, Haim of Falaise, and many other tosafists. The "''Pa'aneaḥ Raza''" was first published at Prague in 1607, from an incomplete manuscript, by Isaac Cohen, the son-in-law of Jacob Mölin. Complete copies of the work, with a postscript, and a poem containing the name of the compiler in acrostic, are extant in ma ...
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