Eliezer (ben Solomon) of Touques was a French
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.
The auth ...
, who lived at
Touques in the second half of the thirteenth century. He abridged the tosafot of
Samson of Sens Samson ben Abraham of Sens (שמשון בן אברהם משאנץ; c. 1150 – c. 1230),was one of the leading French Tosafists in the second half of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th centuries. He was the most outstanding student and the s ...
,
Samuel of Évreux, and many others, and added thereto marginal notes of his own, entitled "Gilyon Tosafot," or "Tosafot Gillayon". This abridgment, together with the notes, after undergoing many alterations and receiving several additions from later authorities, was called ''
Tosafot Ṭuk''; it forms the foundation of the Tosafot now printed with the Talmud.
[see ]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 ...
, '' 'Av. Zarah'', § 1295; Judah ben Eliezer
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Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
, ''Minḥat Yehudah''
58a
R. Nissim to Alfasi, ''Giṭ.'' viii.; and Bezalel Ashkenazi
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, ''Shiṭṭah'', pp. 47-49
Gershon Soncino, who printed Eliezer's tosafot for the first time, says in the preface to
Ḳimḥi's ''Miklol'' edited by him (Constantinople, 1532–34) that he collected them in various places in France, especially in
Chambéry
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, Savoy. Eliezer was also the author of a commentary on the Pentateuch, mentioned in a list of works appended to the manuscript of
Ibn Janaḥ
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's ''Sefer ha-Riḳmah'', now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (No. 1216).
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
*
Azulai, ''Shem ha-Gedolim'',
ii., s.v. תוספות;
*
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* (1874–1939), Belgian pharmacologist
* Sir Gerhard Jack Zunz (1923–2018), British civil engineer
* Leopold Zunz (Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz) (1794–1886), German Reform rabbi an ...
, ' p. 39;
*
Gross, ''Gallia Judaica''
p. 209
* Rabbinowicz, ''Ma'amar 'al Hadfasat ha-Talmud'', p. 23, Munich, 1877;
* Michael, ''Or ha-Ḥayyim'', No. 424.
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13th-century French rabbis
French Tosafists
People from Calvados (department)