JOSEPH BEN ISSACHAR BAER OF PRAGUE
- JOSEPH BEN ISSACHAR BAER OF PRAGUE
- JOSEPH BEN ISSACHAR BAER OF PRAGUE (end of 16th
century), rabbi and author. Joseph was a pupil of Mordecai Jaffe and of
Judah Loew b. Bezalel (the Maharal of Prague). He was the author of
Yosef Da'at (Prague, 1609), a supercommentary on Rashi's
commentary to the Pentateuch, in whichhe corrects mistakes in the text
and gives illustrations for understanding it. The work also includes
some notes on the biblical commentary of Jacob b. Asher. In the
introduction Joseph mentions his commentary to the Beḥinat
Olam of Jedaiah ha-Penini Bedersi, which has not been published.
Alei Ayin, a reference work to the Ein Ya'akov of
Jacob Ibn Ḥabib, has also been attributed to him, though this is
doubtful. It is stated that Joseph used a manuscript of Rashi's
commentary on the Pentateuch dating from the year 1300.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Zunz, Gesch, 285; Ghirondi-Neppi, 144; Neubauer, Cat, nos. 3697, 5928,
6463, 5566; S. Hock, Die Familien Prags (1892), 210f.; Fuenn,
Keneset,
498.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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