Calonymos ben Sabbatai

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Kalonymos ben Sabbatai (also: Kalonymos ben Schabatai ) († before 1096) was head of the yeshiva in Worms from around 1070 .

His father was Sabbatai (Schabatai) ben Mose. Kalonymos worked as a rabbi in Rome before joining after the death of Jacob ben Jakar in the Jewish community Worms came. He is considered an authority on the Talmud and Halacha . Explanations and decisions made by him are given in a number of works. A Slichot (liturgical poem and prayer of penance and repentance), in which he describes the sufferings of the Jews of his time, has also come down to us.

He probably died before the persecution of the Jews at the time of the First Crusade in 1096, as he was already old in 1070 and his name is not mentioned in the pogrom's lists of martyrs .

literature

  • Ismar Elbogen u. a. (Hg): Germania Judaica 1: From the oldest times to 1238 . Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1963.
  • Fritz Reuter : Warmaisa: 1000 years of Jews in Worms . 3. Edition. Self-published, Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-8391-0201-5
  • Leopold Zunz : literary history of synagogal poetry. ND of the Berlin 1865 edition: Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zunz, p. 250.
  2. ^ Reuter: Warmaisa. 1000 years , p. 51.
  3. ↑ Zunz, p. 250.
  4. ↑ Listed in detail in Elbogen, p. 448.
  5. ↑ Elbogen, p. 448.
personal data
SURNAME Calonymos ben Sabbatai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalonymos ben Shabatai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH before 1096