Eliakim ben Meshullam

Eliakim ben Meshullam

Eliakim ben Meshullam (born about 1030; died at the end of the eleventh century in Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria) was a German rabbi, Talmudist and "payyeṭan".

He studied at the "yeshibot" in Mayence and Worms, having Rashi as a fellow student. Eliakim himself founded a Talmudical school in Speyer.

He wrote a commentary on all the tractates of the "Talmud" except "Berakot" and "Niddah" (see Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29, and Asher ben Jehiel, Responsa, Rule 1, § 8), which was used by scholars as late as the fourteenth century. At present there exists only the commentary on "Yoma," in manuscript (Codex Munich, No. 216).

Ritual decisions by Eliakim are mentioned by Rashi ("Pardes," 42a, 44c, 48a). He was the composer of a "piyyuṭ," to be read when a circumcision takes place in the synagogue on a Saturday.

References

*Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 28
*Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 221
*Leser Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 24
*Berliner, in Monatsschrift, 1868, p. 182
*Heinrich Grätz, Gesch. vi. 364
*Epstein, in the "Steinschneider Festschrift", pp. 125 et seq.
*idem, "Jüdische Alterthümer in Worms und Speyer", pp. 4, 27.

External links

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