Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol was a
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of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of his cousin R.
Simon ha-Gadol of Mainz and of R.
Gershom Me'or ha-Golah.
David Conforte
David Conforte (c. 1618 – c. 1685) () was a Hebrew literary historian born in Salonica, author of the literary chronicle known by the title ''Ḳore ha-Dorot.''
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Conforte came of a family of scholars. His early instructors were rabbi ...
, relying on the statement in the tosefta to Shab. 54b, says that Eliezer ha-Gadol was the teacher of
Rashi
Shlomo Yitzchaki (; ; ; 13 July 1105) was a French rabbi who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible. He is commonly known by the List of rabbis known by acronyms, Rabbinic acronym Rashi ().
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; but Rashi himself, in citing Eliezer, does not say so. In Rashi's quotation he is sometimes called Eliezer ha-Gadol and sometimes Eliezer Gaon, which induced
Azulai to consider them as two separate persons.
Works
* According to
Menahem di Lonsano Eliezer ha-Gadol was the author of the well-known ''Orḥot Ḥayyim'' or ''Ẓawwa'at R. Eliezer ha-Gadol'', generally attributed to
Eliezer b. Hyrcanus
Eliezer ben Hurcanus (or Hyrcanus) () was one of the most prominent Judean ''tannaitic'' Sages of 1st- and 2nd-century Judaism, a disciple of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai, Avot of Rabbi Natan 14:5 and a colleague of Gamaliel II (whose sister, ...
.
* As to the authorship of the
seliḥah
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''Elohai Basser 'Ammeka'', recited in the service of
Yom Kippur Katan
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and attributed to Eliezer by
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,
[ Michael, Heimann Joseph, (1891) ''Or ha-Ḥayyim'', Frankfort-on-the-Main (in Hebrew), pp. 205-207] see
Landshuth, '' 'Ammude ha-'Abodah'', p. 20.
Footnotes
Its bibliography:
*
Chaim Azulai, ''Shem ha-Gedolim'', i. 12a, ii., s.v. ;
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Leopold Zunz
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, ''Z. G.'' pp. 47 et seq.;
*
Jellinek, Adolf (1853). Bet ha-Midrasch. 3. Jerusalem, 27, 28 of the Preface;
*
Fuenn, Samuel Joseph, ''Keneset Yisrael'', p. 124;
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Moritz Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider (; 30 March 1816 – 24 January 1907) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist, and an important figure in Jewish studies and Jewish history. He is credited as having invented the term ''antisemitism.''
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Mo ...
, ''Cat. Bodl.'' cols. 957-958;
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Julius Fürst
Julius Fürst (; 12 May 1805, Żerków, South Prussia – 9 February 1873, Leipzig), born Joseph Alsari, was a Jewish German oriental studies, orientalist and the son of noted maggid, teacher, and Hebrew grammarian Jacob Alsari. Fürst was a dis ...
, ''Bibl. Jud.'' i. 233.
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11th-century German rabbis