PERLES, MOSES MEIR BEN ELEAZAR
- PERLES, MOSES MEIR BEN ELEAZAR
- PERLES, MOSES MEIR BEN ELEAZAR (1666–1739), rabbi and author.
Perles was born in Prague. About 1708 he was in Frankfurt, Amsterdam,
and Rotterdam, and in his work Megillat Sefer, he tells of
the troubles which befell him in the winter of 1708, while he was in an
isolated village outside Vienna: on the Sabbath of Zakhor and
Purim he had neither Sefer Torah nor Scroll of Esther, and he
vowed to compile a commentary on the latter if he were delivered. He
reached Vienna, where he lived in the house of samson wertheimer ,
acting as his secretary. Wertheimer supported him after he returned to
Prague. Perles kept his vow and compiled his commentary entitled
Megillat Sefer (Prague, 1710), which is based mainly on
Rashi's commentary to Esther. In his introduction he also mentions his
other works, which have remained in manuscript: Penei Ḥammah
on the aggadot of the Talmud; Or Olam, sermons for
the festivals; Kiryat Arba, sermons on the biblical portions
read on the four special sabbaths before Passover; and Me'ir
Netivot (which according to one view is identical with Or
Olam). He died in Prague.
His sons included Aaron, who published the Seder ha-Nikkur of
the Sefer ha-Ittur with the commentary Tohorat
Aharon (Offenbach, 1725) containing extracts from the works of the
posekim and the laws of porging in German, and Moses, who
compiled Mishmeret ha-Bayit (Prague, 1739), containing in 10
mishmarot ("vigils"), sermons and ethical admonitions.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Steinschneider, Cat Bod, 725, 1981; Neubauer, Cat, 792; S. Hock and D.
Kaufmann, Die Familien Prags (1892), 280–1.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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