Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise was a French rabbi, a
tosafist
The Tosafot, Tosafos or Tosfot () 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 authors of the Tosafot ...
of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. His French name was Sir Morel, by which he is often designated in rabbinical literature. "Kadesh Urchatz", the now ubiquitous poem at the beginning of the traditional
Haggadah
The Haggadah (, "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a foundational Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. According to Jewish practice, reading the Haggadah at the Seder table fulfills the mitzvah incumbent on every Jew to reco ...
, is attributed to him.
[https://twitter.com/onthemainline/status/1514462423130030083. The attribution appears in a 1457 manuscript by Aharon b. Natan that can be found here https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/viewerpage?vid=MANUSCRIPTS&docid=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990000596780205171-1#$FL30168847]
He was a pupil of
Judah Sir Leon 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 () 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 manuscripts of the ...
.
Samuel was the author of the following works:
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Tosafot
The Tosafot, Tosafos or Tosfot () are Middle Ages, 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 authors o ...
'' to several
Talmud
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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 Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil (died about 1295) was a French tosafist, son of the Talmudist Elijah of Tours. In Talmudic literature he is designated by the abbreviations RaP (= Rabbeinu Perez), RaPaSh (= Rabbeinu Perez, may he live), and MaHaRPaSh ( ...
*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
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Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, also called Isaac Or Zarua or the Riaz, is considered to be one of the prominent Rabbi, rabbis of the Middle Ages. He was probably born in Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemia, Prague? and lived between 1200 and 1270. ...
(''Or Zarua'', ii. 114)
*Ritual decisions, frequently cited by
Meir of Rothenburg
Meir of Rothenburg
( 1215 – 2 May 1293) was a German Rabbi and poet, as well as a major contributing author of the ''tosafot'' on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. He is also known as Meir ben Baruch (), and by the Hebrew language acr ...
,
Mordechai ben Hillel, 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;
*
Heinrich Grätz
Heinrich Graetz (; 31 October 1817 – 7 September 1891) was a German exegete and one of 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 (no ...
, Gesch. vii. 130;
*
Leopold Zunz
Leopold Zunz (—''Yom Tov Tzuntz'', —''Lipmann Zunz''; 10 August 1794 – 17 March 1886) was the founder of academic Judaic Studies ('' Wissenschaft des Judentums''), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual. Nah ...
, Z. G. p. 37;
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13th-century French rabbis
French Tosafists