Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil (died about 1295) was a French tosafist, son of the

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Elijah of Tours. In

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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 four masters Jehiel of Paris, Jacob of Chinon and Samuel of Evreux. He traveled throughout Brabant, and sojourned for a time in

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and

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, where he made the acquaintance of

Meir of Rothenburg Meir of Rothenburg ( 1215 – 2 May 1293) was a German Rabbi and poet, as well as a major contributing author of the ''tosafot'' on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. He is also known as Meir ben Baruch (), and by the Hebrew language acr ...

. 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

, and

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. 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

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. These commentaries, variously entitled "Tosafot," "Shiṭṭah," "Nimuḳim," "Ḥiddushim," "Perishah," underwent many changes introduced by Perez's numerous disciples; only the commentary on the treatise Baba Metzia has been preserved in its original redaction. Two of the commentaries, on Baba Kamma and

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, were published by Abraham Venano at Leghorn in 1819; that on the tenth chapter of Pesahim was reproduced by Mordecai ben Hillel in his ''Mordekai''; and many others were given by Bezaleel Ashkenazi in 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 Masoretic work which is no longer in existence.

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It has the following bibliography: *

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, Sefer Yuḥasin, ed. Filipowski, p. 233 * Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii. 149 * David Conforte, Kore ha-Dorot, p. 17 *

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, Z. G. p. 41 * Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2643 *

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Adolf Neubauer Adolf Neubauer (11 March 1831 – 6 April 1907) was a Hungarian-born at the Bodleian Library and reader (academic rank), reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University. Biography He was born in Bittse (Nagybiccse), Upper Hungary (now Bytča ...

, Les Rabbins Français, pp. 449 et seq. * Henri Gross, ''Gallia Judaica'', pp. 565 et seq. 13th-century French rabbis French Tosafists 1295 deaths Year of birth unknown {{France-rabbi-stub