BARUCH BEN ISAAC OF ALEPPO
- BARUCH BEN ISAAC OF ALEPPO
- BARUCH BEN ISAAC OF ALEPPO (c. 1050–c. 1125), scholar. Baruch
appears to have been born in Spain, where he studied together with his
younger kinsman baruch b. samuel of Aleppo. From there he went to
Aleppo where he was the head of a large yeshivah. From 1085 his
signature appears on various documents, among them a letter of
recommendation on behalf of Obadiah the Proselyte of Normandy. He wrote
a commentary on the order Kodashim, of the Babylonian Talmud,
which was highly recommended by joseph rosh ha-seder , who
considered it equal to the commentaries of Hananel b. Ḥushi'el
on the orders Mo'ed, Nashim, and Nezikin and of
isaac b. melchizedek on Zera'im and Tohorot.
He also wrote commentaries on other tractates, including
Shabbat (quoted by Isaiah di Trani in his commentary on this
tractate) and Bava Meẓia (see Ginzei Kedem, 5
(1934), 131–4). S. Assaf was of the opinion that the commentary on
tractate Zevaḥim (Jerusalem, 1942), attributed to Hananel,
was by Baruch, but this identification does not appear to be correct.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Mann, in: Ha-Tekufah, 24 (1928), 337, 352–4; Epstein, in:
Tarbiz, 16 (1944/45), 49–53; Assaf, ibid., 19
(1947/48), 105–8.
(Israel Moses Ta-Shma)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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