MOSES BEN ABRAHAM OF PONTOISE
- MOSES BEN ABRAHAM OF PONTOISE
- MOSES BEN ABRAHAM OF PONTOISE (12th century),
French tosafist. Moses was a pupil of jacob tam . The Sefer
ha-Yashar of R. Tam discusses a number of problems, concerned
mainly with the clarification of the plain meaning of various talmudic
passages, which Moses put before his teacher (Responsa nos. 51, 52,
69–70). The theoretical nature of most of the questions, and the
answers and their importance for an
understanding of the relevant talmudic
passages, led to their inclusion, in substance, in the standard
tosafot, as well as in the works of such rishonim
as mordecai b. hillel , meir b. baruch of rothenburg , and
others. The tosafists also mention Moses in connection with other
subjects, and they cite his comments in the various collections of their
biblical commentaries. A short verse of two lines by Moses, coming at
the end of the list of positive precepts in the azharot of Elijah
ha-Zaken, together with a commentary to it, has been preserved
(Kobez al Jad, 1 (1936), 8).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Urbach, Tosafot, 111–3.
(Israel Moses Ta-Shma)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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