BARUCH BEN ISAAC OF WORMS
- BARUCH BEN ISAAC OF WORMS
- BARUCH BEN ISAAC OF WORMS (late 12th–early
13th century), German tosafist. Although Baruch lived in
Worms, he probably came from France and is sometimes referred to as
Ha-Zarefati ("the Frenchman"). Baruch was a pupil of
isaac b. samuel the Elder of Dampierre, and after his teacher's
death, spent a considerable amount of time in France with Judah of
Paris. Baruch immigrated to Ereẓ Israel (1237?). It seems certain that
he is not to be identified with baruch b. isaac of regensburg .
He is renowned as the author of Sefer ha-Terumah (written
shortly before 1202; first published Venice, 1523), which comprises a
summary of the established halakhot on several subjects,
including the laws pertaining to Ereẓ Israel, combined and arranged
according to the chapters of the relevant tractates of the Talmud. The
whole work reflects the teachings of Isaac b. Samuel. In it Baruch
mentions samuel b. meir (Rashbam) and isaac b. meir , as
well as statements of Rabbi jacob tam and his pupils; however,
very few German scholars are referred to. By virtue of its wealth of
material and its terse, easy style, well adapted to its purpose of
leading, through discussion, to the practical halakhah, the
book spread through France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and was widely
quoted by many later authorities among them, eliezer of worms ,
Isaac b. Moses Or Zarua, moses b. jacob of coucy ,
zedekiah anav , aaron b. jacob of Lunel, and
Naḥmanides . Entire halakhic passages from the work were
inserted by copyists into the Maḥzor Vitry . Numerous
manuscripts of Sefer ha-Terumah and some manuscripts of an
anonymous abridgment are extant. Baruch also wrote tosafot to
several tractates of the Talmud, but only those on Zevaḥim
have been preserved and they are printed in the standard editions of the
Talmud. A. Epstein held that the anonymous commentary on
Tamid attributed to Abraham b. David (Prague, 1725) should be
ascribed to Baruch, but – despite a measure of similarity between the
commentary and a number of quotations in Baruch's name which are known –
this is unlikely. E.E. Urbach has maintained that the commentary on the
Sifra ascribed to Abraham b. David was written by Baruch, but
this too is uncertain.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Epstein, Das talmudische Lexikon "Yiḥusei Tanna'im
ve-Amora'im" (1895); Urbach, Tosafot, 263, 286–99, 511–2; V.
Aptowitzer, Mavo le-Sefer Ravyah (1938), 327–8.
(Israel Moses Ta-Shma)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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