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Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or German rabbi of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of his cousin R. Simon ha-Gadol of Mayence and of R. Gershom Me'or ha-Golah. David Conforte, relying on the statement in the tosefta to Shab. 54b, says that Eliezer ha-Gadol was the teacher of Rashi ("Ḳore ha-Dorot," p. 8a); but Rashi himself, in citing Eliezer (Pes. 76b), does not say so. In Rashi's quotation he is sometimes called Eliezer ha-Gadol and sometimes Eliezer Gaon, which induced Azulai ("Shem ha-Gedolim," p. 12a) to consider them as two separate persons. According to Menahem di Lonsano ("Shete Yadot," p. 122a), Eliezer ha-Gadol was the author of the well-known "Orḥot Ḥayyim" or "áºawwa'at R. Eliezer ha-Gadol," generally attributed to Eliezer b. Hyrcanus. As to the authorship of the seliḥah "Elohai Basser 'Ammeka," recited in the service of Yom Kippur Ḳaá¹on and attributed to Eliezer by Michael ("Or ha-Ḥayyim," pp. 205-207), see Landshuth, "'Ammude ha-'Abodah," p. 20.
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, 1:12a, , s.
; - Zunz, Z. G. pp. 47 et seq.;
- Jellinek, B. H. 3:27,28 of the Preface;
- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 124;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 957-958;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 1:233.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/e/eliezer-ben-isaac-ha-gadol.html. 1901.
