AARON BEN MESHULLAM OF LUNEL
- AARON BEN MESHULLAM OF LUNEL
- AARON BEN MESHULLAM OF LUNEL (d. c. 1210), one of the leading
scholars of Lunel. He was the son of meshullam b. jacob of Lunel.
Aaron studied under abraham b. david of Posquières, with whom he
subsequently corresponded. A book on the laws of terefot is
attributed to him, but it is likely that this treatise is an extract
from his work on the Talmud or on the halakhot of Alfasi on
tractate Ḥullin. meshullam b. moses , son of Aaron's
sister, mentions these novellae of his uncle in his Sefer
ha-Hashlamah. Aaron was expert in astronomy and the computation of
the calendar and wrote a booklet comparing the Hebrew and Christian
calendars. Judah b. Saul ibn tibbon , in his will, urges his son
Samuel to study this subject with Aaron and to rely upon him and upon
his brother Asher. Aaron was an admirer of Maimonides. In the
controversy which arose following the criticism by
meir ha-levi abulafia of Maimonides' views on resurrection, Aaron
vigorously defended Maimonides in the name of the "sages of Lunel,"
lauding him as "Prince (nasi) and rabbi, unequaled in East or
in West."
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Sefer ha-Hashlamah le-Seder Nezikin, ed. by J. Lubetzky, 1
(1885), viii–x; Meir ha-Levi Abulafia, Kitab al-Rasail, ed.
by J. Brill (1871), 25–40; Benedikt, in: Sinai, 33 (1953),
62–74; I. Twersky, Rabad of Posquières (1962), 251–3.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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