ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC OF MONTPELLIER
- ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC OF MONTPELLIER
- ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC OF MONTPELLIER (d. c. 1315), talmudist of
Provence, a contemporary of menahem b. solomon ha-meiri . Little
is known of his life. He was born in Montpellier about 1250, and toward
the end of his life settled in Carpentras. Abraham b. Isaac was known
for his liberal outlook. When abba mari astruc wrote to him
concerning the Maimonidean controversy and the proposed prohibition of
the study of philosophy to anyone under 25 years old Abraham urged Abba
Mari to desist from the controversy because freedom of thought and
opinion should not be suppressed (Minḥat Kena'ot, 92).
Abraham wrote a commentary on most of the Talmud, based principally on
the views of Maimonides. He gives a brief commentary on the text in the
style of Rashi; at the end of each topic he gives the practical
halakhah derived from it. Only a minor part of this
commentary has been published, including his commentary on
Kiddushin appearing in the Romm 1880 edition of the Talmud
(wrongly ascribed to Isaac of Dampierre) and those on Yevamot,
Nedarim, and Nazir (New York, 1962). His commentaries
to many other tractates were familiar to later scholars such as
moses alashkar and menahem de lonzano , but they were not
generally known. David b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen of Corfu wrote: "I
have hitherto heard nothing of him as an authority" (Responsa, Bayit 5,
Ḥeder 1), but at the end of that same responsum he added that he had
come across the commentary "and I rejoiced greatly … he was an
outstanding scholar." Some of Abraham's responsa are extant. In addition
to those which appear at the end of his commentary to Nazir
there are those which appear in Teshuvot Ḥakhmei Provin ẓyah
(1967), ed. by A. Sofer. There is no evidence that he was related to
solomon b. abraham of Montpellier. It is strange that he does not
mention in his works the names of any scholars after Moses b. Naḥman.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Avraham min ha-Har, Perush al Massekhet Yevamot Nedarim
ve-Nazir, ed. by M.J. Blau (1962), preface; I. Lévi, in:
REJ, 38 (1899), 102–22; Shatzmiler, in: Sefunot, 10
(1966), 17–18.
(Israel Moses Ta-Shma)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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