Simeon bar Isaac

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Simeon bar Isaac (* about 950 ; † 1015 / 1030 in Mainz ) was a Jewish Talmud scholar and Pajtan , d. H. a poet of piyutim , religious poems recited or sung in worship.

Life

Simeon bar Isaac, called hagadol (the great), was a contemporary of Gerschom ben Yehuda in Mainz, in Hebrew Magenza , during the heyday of Jewish culture and religion in the 10th century. He was a rabbi and leader of the local Jewish community. As pajtan, he wrote the praise for HaSchem Melech ( HaSchem is king ), which is sung to this day in Shacharit on the feast of Rosh Hashanah .

literature

  • Abraham Meir Habermann: Pijutim . In: פיוטי רבי שמעון ב"ר יצחק ( Pijutim of Rabbi Rabbi Shimon bar Isaak ). Schocken , Berlin 1938 (Hebrew).
  • Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson : History of the Jewish People. From the beginning to the present . 1992, ISBN 3-7632-4070-5 (licensed edition for the Gutenberg Book Guild in one volume, p. 506).
  • Elisabeth Hollender : Qedushta'ot of Simon b. Isaac after the Amsterdam Mahsor. (Translation and commentary, also dissertation Cologne 1993) (=  Johann Maier [Hrsg.]: Judentum und Umwelt . Nr. 55 ). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 978-3-631-47670-3 .
  • Lucia Raspe: Jewish hagiography in medieval Ashkenaz . 2006, ISBN 3-16-148575-0 .

Footnotes

  1. Simeon Bar Isaac "the Great" of Mayence (Germany) (English), accessed on March 3, 2017.