Isaac_ben_Judah_HaLevi

Isaac ben Judah HaLevi

Isaac ben Judah HaLevi

13th-century French rabbi

Not to be confused with Isaac bar Judah or Isaac ben Judah.

Isaac ben Judah HaLevi (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה הלוי) was a French exegete and tosafist; lived at Sens, probably, in the second half of the thirteenth century.[1][2]

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He was the pupil of Haim of Falaise, whom Heinrich Gross identifies with Chaim Paltiel.[1]

Works

Isaac compiled, under the title "Pa'aneaḥ Raza" (Hebrew: פענח רזא), a commentary on the Pentateuch, in which literal interpretations ("peshaṭ") are frequently intermingled with "Noṭariḳon" and "Gemaṭriot." The authorities quoted by Isaac are Joseph Ḳara, Joseph Bekor Shor, Judah he-Ḥasid, Eleazar of Worms, Haim of Falaise, and many other tosafists. The "Pa'aneaḥ Raza" was first published at Prague in 1607, from an incomplete manuscript, by Isaac Cohen, the son-in-law of Jacob Mölin. Complete copies of the work, with a postscript, and a poem containing the name of the compiler in acrostic, are extant in manuscript in the Bodleian and other European libraries.[1]

Isaac wrote Tosafot to the Talmud, and is called "Ba'al Tosafot mi-Shanẓ" (="The Tosafist of Sens").[1]

References

  1. [1]
     One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer and Isaac Broydé (1901–1906). "ISAAC BEN JUDAH HA-LEVI". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
    Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography:
  2. [2]
    Trachtenberg, Joshua (2004) [Originally published 1939]. "HEBREW SOURCES, PRINTED". Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 319. ISBN 9780812218626. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
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