Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise was a French rabbi, a
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 ...
of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. His French name was Sir Morel, by which he is often designated in rabbinical literature.
He was a pupil of
Judah Sir Leon
Judah ben Isaac Messer Leon (1166–1224) was a French tosafist born in Paris.
Biography
Born in 1166 in Paris, France, his father Rabbi Isaac Treves was a rabbi in Paris and a paternal descendant of Judah ben Nathan, and thus a descendant of Ra ...
of Paris and of
Isaac ben Abraham of Sens. In 1240 he took part in the renowned controversy instigated by the baptized Jew
Nicholas Donin
Nicholas Donin (french: Nicolas Donin) of La Rochelle, a Jewish convert to Christianity in early thirteenth-century Paris, is known for his role in the 1240 Disputation of Paris, which resulted in a decree for the public burning of all available ...
.
Samuel was the author of the following works:
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Tosafot
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 ...
'' to several
Talmud
The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law ('' halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the ce ...
ical treatises, among which those to the 'Abodah Zarah were published, together with the text, according to the redaction of his disciple
Perez ben Elijah
*A commentary, no longer in existence, on the laws concerning Passover composed in verse by
Joseph Ṭob 'Elem, quoted by
Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (''Or Zarua'', ii. 114)
*Ritual decisions, frequently cited by
Meir of Rothenburg
Meir ( he, מֵאִיר) is a Jewish male given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines". It is often Germanized as Maier, Mayer, Mayr, Meier, Meyer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer.Alfred ...
,
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 ...
, and other rabbinical authorities of that time.
References
*Jacobs
''Jews of Angevin England'' pp. 53, 146, 421.
Its bibliography:
*Loeb, in R. E. J. i. 248;
*Gross, Gallia Judaica, pp. 478-479:
*Berliner's Magazin, iv. 179-194;
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Heinrich Grätz
Heinrich Graetz (; 31 October 1817 – 7 September 1891) was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective.
Born Tzvi Hirsch Graetz to a butcher family in Xions (now Książ Wielkop ...
, Gesch. vii. 130;
*
Leopold Zunz, Z. G. p. 37;
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13th-century French rabbis
French Tosafists