Eliezer ben Isaac, of Worms, active 11th century
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Name (Hebrew)
אליעזר בן יצחק
Name (Latin)
Eliezer ben Isaac, of Worms, active 11th century
Other forms of name
Gadol, Eliʻezer ha-, active 11th century
nnaa Eliezer ben Isaac, ha-Gadol, 11th cent
Eliʻezer ben Yitsḥaḳ
Eliʻezer ben Yitsḥaḳ Ashkenazi, active 11th century
Eliʻezer, ha-Gadol, 11th cent
Eliʻezer, ha-Gadol, active 11th century
אליעזר בן יצחק אשכנזי
אליעזר בן יצחק, הגדול
אליעזר בן יצחק, הגדול, המאה ה-11
אליעזר, הגדול, מוורמס
Field of activity
Jewish ethics
Jewish religious poetry
Talmud Bavli
Occupation
Rabbis
Associated Language
heb
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Encyclopedia Judaica online, viewed May 29, 2018(Eliezer ben Isaac of Worms; also called "Eliezer ha-Gadol"; 11th century; German talmudic scholar. Eliezer was a pupil of his relative Simeon ha-Gadol, in Mainz, and later of Gershom Me'or ha-Golah, and Judah ha-Kohen, author of Sefer ha-Dinim. He was a friend of Jacob b. Jakar. After the death of R. Gershom, he and Jacob b. Yakar headed the yeshivah of Mainz, which numbered among its pupils Issac ha-Levi and Issac b. Judah, the teacher of Rashi, who mentions Eliezer several times in his commentaries to the Bible (e.g., Ps. 76:11) and the Talmud (Pes. 76b) calling him "ha-Gadol" or "ha-Ga'on." A number of Eliezer's decisions and instructions have been perserved in works issuing from Rashi's school, including the Sefer ha-Pardes. Menahem b. Judah di Lonzano attributes to Eliezer the well-known work, Orḥot Ḥayyim or Ẓavva'at R. Eli'ezer ha-Gahol, which had previously been attributed to Eliezer b. Hyrcanus. The suggestion that Eliezer was the father of Tobian b. Eliezer, author of the Lekaḥ Ṭov, is without firm foundation. The seliḥah "Elohai Basser" recited in the Yom Kippur Katan service, which bears Eliezer's name in acrostic form, has been attributed to him.)
- His Orḥot ḥayim, 1991 or 1992:t.p. (R. Eliʻezer ha-Gadol)
- LC manual cat.(hdg.: Eliezer ben Isaac, ha-Gadol, 11th cent.)