Simeon ben Helbo Kara was a French
rabbi
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who lived in
Mans in the 11th century; brother of
Menahem ben Helbo and father of
Joseph Ḳara.
Isaac de Lattes, in his ''Ḳiryat Sefer,'' counts Ḳara among the prominent French rabbis, although no work of his has survived.
J.L. Rapoport identified him with the compiler of the
Yalḳuṭ Shim'oni, on account of the similarity of some
Midrashic
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. ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ; or ''midrashot' ...
quotations in this work with citations in
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 ().
Born in Troyes, Rashi stud ...
's
Bible
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commentary.
Abraham Epstein
Abraham Epstein (; born 19 December 1841) was a Russo-Austrian rabbinical scholar born in Staro Constantinov, Volhynia.
Epstein diligently studied the works of Isaac Baer Levinsohn, Nachman Krochmal, and S. D. Luzzatto, and when he traveled i ...
has, however, shown that in the manuscripts the name "Ḳara" does not occur, and in place of "Simeon" the reading "Simson" at times is found.
The surname ''Ḳara'' is usually taken to be a professional name, meaning 'reader' or 'interpreter of the Bible'.
Adolf Jellinek
Adolf Jellinek ( ''Aharon Jelinek''; 26 June 1821 in Drslavice, Moravia – 28 December 1893 in Vienna) was an Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig (1845–1856), he became a preacher at the Leopoldstädter Temp ...
the Austrian rabbi and historian points out, however, that ''Ḳara'', as contrasted with ''
Derash'', means the 'representative of the ''
Peshaṭ''.
References
Sources
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''Jewish Encyclopedia'' bibliography
*
Zunz, Leopold, ''Gottesdienstliche Vorträge'' p. 313
** Zunz, ''Zur Geschichte und Literatur'' p. 61
*
J.L. Rapoport. ''Kerem Ḥemed'', vii. 4 et seq.
* Kirchheim, in ''Literaturblatt des Orients'' iv. 253
*
A. Geiger, ''Niṭ'e Na'amanim'', German part, p. 8
** Geiger, in ''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft'' xxviii. 300
*
I.H. Weiss, in ''Bet Talmud'', ii. 35
* Brüll's ''Jahrbücher für Jüdische Geschichte und Litteratur'' viii. 113
*
Abraham Epstein
Abraham Epstein (; born 19 December 1841) was a Russo-Austrian rabbinical scholar born in Staro Constantinov, Volhynia.
Epstein diligently studied the works of Isaac Baer Levinsohn, Nachman Krochmal, and S. D. Luzzatto, and when he traveled i ...
, in ''Ha-Ḥoḳer'', i. 85 et seq.
*
Chaim Azulai, ''Shem ha-Gedolim,'' ed. Benjacob, i.36
*
David Conforte, ''Dore ha-Dorot'' (see index in Cassel ed.)
* Frumkin, ''Eben Shemuel,'' pp. 67 et seq., 125 et seq., Vilna, 1874
*
Michael, Heimann Joseph, (1891) ''Or ha-Ḥayyim'', Frankfort-on-the-Main (in Hebrew), No. 612
*
Luncz, in ''Jerusalem,'' ii.23-27
* Responsa of
Yom-Tov Zahalon, No. 160
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French Orthodox rabbis
11th-century French rabbis