Simḥa ben Samuel of
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ; ; ), historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in the western part of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the r ...
(13th century) was a German rabbi and
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 ...
. Neither the year of his birth nor that of his death is known. He was one of the leading signatories of the
Takkanot Shum
The (), or Enactments of SHU"M, were a set of decrees formulated and agreed upon over a period of decades by the leaders of three of the central cities of medieval Rhineland Jewry: Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. The initials of the Hebrew names for th ...
[compare Moses Minz, Responsa, No. 202] He was a nephew of the director (''
parnas'')
Kalonymus, a student of R.
Eliezer of Metz, and a colleague of
Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi.
Simha was the author of the following works:
* Commentary on the treatise
Horayot
Horayot (; "Decisions") is a Masekhet, tractate in Nezikin, Seder Nezikin in the Talmud.
In the Mishnah, this is the tenth and last tractate in Nezikin, the ninth tractate in the Babylonian Talmud, and the eighth in the Jerusalem Talmud. It cons ...
(quoted in Tosafot Horayot 4b, s.v. ''Keri'')
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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 ...
and