Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona (lived about the beginning of the thirteenth century) was an Italian Jewish
tosafist
The Tosafot, Tosafos or Tosfot ( he, תוספות) are medieval commentaries on the Talmud. They take the form of critical and explanatory glosses, printed, in almost all Talmud editions, on the outer margin and opposite Rashi's notes.
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He was a disciple of
Rabbi Isaac the elder, of
Dampierre, Aube, and grandfather of the philosopher and physician
Hillel ben Samuel Hillel ben Samuel (c. 1220 – Forlì, c. 1295) was an Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona.
Life
He spent his youth at Barcelona, where he studied the Talmud ...
. He had sanctioned the second marriage of a young woman whose husband had probably, though not certainly, perished by shipwreck. But
Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi Eliezer ben Yoel HaLevi of Bonn ( Hebrew acronym Ra'avyah; 1140–1225To be more precise, it is only known that he died after 1220.) was a Rabbinic scholar in Germany. He had a significant influence on Asher ben Jehiel (the ROSH). As a Rishon, he ...
refused to endorse the permission, and a protracted controversy resulted, into which other rabbis were drawn.
Eliezer ben Samuel is often quoted on Biblical and
halakhic
''Halakha'' (; he, הֲלָכָה, ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical comman ...
questions.
Mordechai ben Hillel Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen ( he, "המָּרְדֳּכַי" ,רבי מרדכי בן הלל הכהן; c. 1250–1298), also known as The Mordechai, was a 13th-century German rabbi and posek. His chief legal commentary on the Talmud, referred to as ...
, in speaking of Eliezer, calls him "Eliezer of Verdun," though undoubtedly meaning "Verona."
References
Its bibliography:
*Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 28;
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Zunz Zunz ( he, צוּנְץ, yi, צונץ) is a Yiddish surname:
* (1874–1939), Belgian pharmacologist
* Sir Gerhard Jack Zunz (1923–2018), British civil engineer
* Leopold Zunz (Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz) (1794–1886), German Reform rabbi and ...
, G. S. iii. 250;
*''Monatsschrift'', xxxiv. 520;
*Gross, ''Gallia Judaica'', p. 207.
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13th-century Italian rabbis
Tosafists
Writers from Verona
Religious leaders from Verona