Chananel ben Chushiel
Rabbi Elchanan or Chananel ben Khushiel ( Hebrew רבי חננאל בן חושיאל) (* 990; † around 1055) from Kairouan was the son of Chushiel ben Elchanan . He is also used with RaCh (ר"ח), an acronym for Ra bbi Ch ananel (ר בי ח ננאל).
He headed a major Talmudic college in Kairouan. Chananel wrote a commentary on the whole Babylonian Talmud with v. a. Halachic interest in knowledge, which is still partially preserved, namely on Mo'ed (whole) as well as Naschim , Nesikin , Berachot. The commentary not only contains word explanations, but also summarizes the discussion and uses literature to illuminate the text. In addition to his father, Chananel also refers to Hai Gaon ben Scherira . A small part of his Bible commentary is still preserved. He was also considered an authority on legal issues, but his decisions are only preserved in quotations from other scholars.
His work was also widespread in Christian Europe and thus connected the Jewish communities there, especially influenced by Palestine, with the Babylonian tradition of the Geonim and the North African scholarly culture .
literature
- Works
- Chananel ben Chushiel: פירוש הר״ח/ Perush ha-Rach , ed. Dov Domb. Mosad ha-Rav Ḳuḳ, Jerusalem 1988.
- פירוש רבנו חננאל על מסכת פסחים/ Perush Rabenu Ḥananʾel ʿal masekhet pesaḥim , ed. Jakob Goldenthal . Brill, Paris 1868. ( digitized BSB Munich )
- Eliyahu Munk (ed.): Mikraot Gedolot / Multi Commentary on The Torah. Hachut Hameshulash , 4 volumes, Lambda Publ., Jerusalem 2006ff, ISBN 965-7108-34-9 . (Excerpts from the comments of Ḥananʾel ben Ḥushiʾel , Shemuʾel ben Meʾir , Daṿid Ḳimḥi , ʿOvadyah Ben-Yaʿaḳov )
- Secondary literature
- Victor Aptowitzer : R. Chuschiel and R. Chananel , annual report of the Israelite-theological training institute Vienna, Kalman Kohn printing house, Vienna 1933, 3-50.
- Article Elchanan ben Chuschiel , in: Jakob Klatzkin , Ismar Elbogen (ed.): Encyclopaedia Judaica , Vol. 6, Berlin 1930, 390f.
- Louis Lewin: Article CHANANEL ben CHUSCHIEL , in: Georg Herlitz , Ismar Elbogen (eds.): Jüdisches Lexikon , Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1927, Vol. 1, 1320f.
- Solomon Schechter : Geniza Specimens: A Letter of Chushiel , in: Jewish Quarterly Review 11 (1899), 643-650.
- Samuel David Luzzatto : The two Rabbenu Chananel, namely Chananel b. Chuschiel and Chananel b. Samuel , in: Orient 11 (1850), 241-245.
- Kop W. Saltman: The nature of the commentary of R. Hananel to the Tractate Shabbat . Yeshiva University, Ms. 1969.
- Max Seligsohn: HANANEEL BEN ḤUSHIEL. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 6, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, p. 205 .
- Michael G. Wechsler: Art. Ḥananel ben Ḥushiel , in: Norman A. Stillman (ed.): Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , Brill, Leiden 2010, Vol. 2, 354f.
- Article Hananeel ben Jushiel , in: Eduardo Weinfeld , Isaac Babani (eds.): Enciclopedia Judaica Castellana , Mexico 1951, Vol. 5, 265f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to a widespread hypothesis, “Elchanan” is the original name, which was changed to “Chananel” in order to avoid confusion with other Kairouan and Maghreb scholars, cf. Schechter as early as 1899; Changer 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chananel ben Chushiel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hananel ben Chuschiel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish scholar in Kairuan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 990 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1055 |