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Meïr ben Isaac of Orleans
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or French liturgical poet and, possibly, Biblical commentator of the end of the eleventh century. Meïr and his son Eleazar are quoted in the commentary to (29:11) wrongly ascribed to Rashi. He composed several piyyuṭim, the best known of which are "Torah ha-Temimah" (a supplication interspersed with many Aramaic and Talmudic words and having the general rime in 
, and in which he expresses his horror of apostasy) and "Almanot Ḥayyot," a seliḥah for Yom Kippur. Both piyyuṭim are signed 
and are acrostics containing the name "Eleazar." The second piyyuṭ was translated into German by Zunz ("S. P." p. 184). There is a seliḥah beginning "Mi yodea' yashub," referring to a massacre of 3,000 Jews by the Crusaders, which, though it is signed 
and is an acrostic containing the name "Eleazar," is supposed by Zunz to have been composed a century later.
- Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 33;
- Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 167;
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 251.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Meïr ben Isaac of Orleans'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/m/mea-r-ben-isaac-of-orleans.html. 1901.
