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.''
Biography
Conforte came of a family of scholars. His early instructors were rabbis ...
, relying on the statement in the tosefta to Shab. 54b, says that Eliezer ha-Gadol was the teacher of
Rashi
Shlomo Yitzchaki ( he, רבי שלמה יצחקי; la, Salomon Isaacides; french: Salomon de Troyes, 22 February 1040 – 13 July 1105), today generally known by the acronym Rashi (see below), was a medieval French rabbi and author of a compre ...
; 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. 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. As to the authorship of the
seliḥah
Selichot ( he, סְלִיחוֹת, səlīḥōt, singular: , ''səlīḥā'') are Jewish penitential poems and prayers, especially those said in the period leading up to the High Holidays, and on fast days. The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy are ...
''Elohai Basser 'Ammeka'', recited in the service of
Yom Kippur Katan and attributed to Eliezer by
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,
Heimann Joseph Michael
Heimann (Hayyim) Michael (April 12, 1792 – June 10, 1846) was a Hebrew bibliographer born at Hamburg. He showed great acuteness of mind in early childhood, had a phenomenal memory, and was an indefatigable student. He studied Talmudics and rec ...
, ''Or ha-Ḥayyim'', pp. 205-207 see
Landshuth, '' 'Ammude ha-'Abodah'', p. 20.
Footnotes
Its bibliography:
*
Chaim Azulai, ''Shem ha-Gedolim'', i. 12a, ii., s.v. ;
*
Leopold Zunz, ''Z. G.'' pp. 47 et seq.;
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Adolf Jellinek
Adolf Jellinek ( he, אהרן ילינק ''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 t ...
, ''B. H.'' iii. 27, 28 of the Preface;
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
Samuel Joseph Fuenn (; 15 October 1818 – 11 January 1891), also known as Rashi Fuenn () and Rashif (), was a Lithuanian Hebrew writer, scholar, printer, and editor. He was a leading figure of the eastern European Haskalah, and an early member of ...
, ''Keneset Yisrael'', p. 124;
*
Moritz Steinschneider, ''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 orientalist and the son of noted maggid, teacher, and Hebrew grammarian Jacob Alsari. Fürst was a distinguished scho ...
, ''Bibl. Jud.'' i. 233.
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11th-century German rabbis