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Shemaiah of Troyes

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Tosafist of the early part of the twelfth century; a pupil of Rashi; probably the father-in-law of Samuel b. Meïr. He appears as a tosafist in Ber. 13a, 25b; Pes. 114a; Ket. 61a; Ḳid. 26b, and is mentioned as a casuist by Judah Sir Leon on Ber. 11b. In "Haggahot Maimoniyyot," to "Tefillah" (ch. ), "Simeon" is apparently a copyist's error for "Shemaiah," the true reading. Shemaiah was probably the author of a "Sefer ha-Liḳḳuṭtim," while the "Sefer ha-Pardes" of Rashi as it exists to-day seems likewise to be a compilation made by Shemaiah from the original "Sefer ha-Pardes" and "Sefer ha-Orah." His "Perush," a commentary on the treatise Middot, was printed in the Talmud of 1522.

Bibliography:

Berliner, in Steinschneider, Hebr. Bibl. 11:77 et seq.;
Gross, Gallia Judaica, pp. 179, 196, 227 et seq., 509;
Zunz, Z. G. pp. 56, 64;
Benjacob, Debarim 'Attiḳim, 2:8;
Gedaliah ibn Yaḥya, Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah, ed. Amsterdam, p. 38b;
S. Epstein, in Monatsschrift, 1897, 41:257-263,296-312.

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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Shemaiah of Troyes'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/s/shemaiah-of-troyes.html. 1901.

Bible Encyclopedias Shemaiah of Troyes

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Shemaiah of Troyes