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Menahem ben Machir
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
German liturgist of the eleventh century; a native of Ratisbon. His grandfather, also called Menahem b. Machir, was a nephew of Gershom b. Judah, and he himself was a cousin of Isaac b. Judah, Rashi's teacher. He is quoted in Rashi's "Pardes" (21d, 33c) and in the "Liḳḳuṭe Pardes" (19b; comp. "Pisḳe Reḳanaṭi," No. 589). Menahėm witnessed the Jewish massacres of 1096 in Germany and commemorated them in a number of seliḥot. His piyyuṭim include: "Adam be-ḳum," for the Esther fast (quoted in Tos. to Ḥag. 11a); "Aḥalleh et pene Adonai," for Yom Kippur minḥah; "Amarer ba-beki," for the 17th of Tammuz; "Lammah Adonai ta'amod" (in ten strophes); a "ḳinah" for the 9th of Ab, beginning "Ebel a'orer"; five "yoẓerot," including one for the "Naḥamu" Sabbath and one for the "Shubah" Sabbath; three "ofannim"; three "zulatot"; "Kehosha'ta elim," a "hosha'na" for the Sabbath of Tabernacles; "Ma'arib," for the Feast of Tabernacles; "Nishmat," to be recited on Simḥat Torah; and a "reshut " for Ḥatan Torah, to be recited on the same day. Most of his piyyuṭim are alphabetically arranged, but all of them bear the author's signature.
- Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, pp. 191-192;
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. pp. 158, 250.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Menahem ben Machir'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​m/menahem-ben-machir.html. 1901.