BARUCH BEN SAMUEL OF MAINZ
- BARUCH BEN SAMUEL OF MAINZ
- BARUCH BEN SAMUEL OF MAINZ (c. 1150–1221), scholar and
paytan. Baruch was a pupil of Moses b. Solomon ha-Kohen, whom
he succeeded as a member of the bet din of Mainz. There is no
basis for Aptowitzer's statement that a dispute for the position between
him and his kinsman, eliezer b. samuel of metz , took place.
Baruch also studied under judah b. kalonymus b. meir of Speyer,
and possibly ephraim b. isaac of Regensburg. He was in halakhic
correspondence with many contemporary scholars, including Judah
he-Ḥasid .
Baruch is best known for his Sefer ha-Ḥokhmah, a
comprehensive work (now lost) covering the subject matter of
Nashim and Nezikin, as well as the laws of
Issur ve-Hetter; it also included his responsa. The work was
still extant in the 16th century when solomon luria and
bezalel ashkenazi used it. It is extensively quoted by the
rishonim, particularly by mordecai b. hillel and by
meir b. baruch of rothenburg , sometimes being referred to as "The
Book of Baruch of Mainz." Baruch is not mentioned at all by name in
tosafot, although some ascribe to him the authorship of the
printed tosafot to Sotah. Of Baruch's
piyyutim, 33 of which have been preserved (published by
Habermann – see bibl.), some deal with the persecutions in blois
(1171), speyer and boppard (1196), and Wuerzburg (before
1221), and are a valuable historical source. One piyyut is
devoted to the talmudic discussion "ilan de-Ulla" ("the tree
of Ulla," BB 26b–27a), a rare phenomenon in
piyyut. These piyyutim, some of which are rhymed,
excel in their variety and their style – biblical language being
interspersed with the language of rabbinical and early mystical
literature. Baruch revised a number of his piyyutim in order
to bring them up to date, as in the seliḥot, Be-Terem Noledu
Harim and Be-Terem Harve-Givah. Highly popular among
congregants, his seliḥot were affectionately termed
"berukhah," "mevorekhet," and
"mevorakh" ("blessed," a play on words from his name). His
son, R. SAMUEL OF BAMBERG, the teacher of R. Meir b.
Baruch of Rothenburg , was also noted as an halakhic scholar and as
a paytan.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Urbach, Tosafot, 134–6, 352–4; Habermann, in: YMḤSI, 6
(1945), 47ff.; Epstein, in: Tarbiz, 12 (1940/41), 190–6;
idem, in: MGWJ, 83 (1939, 19632), 346–55;
Davidson, Oẓar 4 (1933), 373; Germ Jud, 1 (1934), 201; V. Aptowitzer
(ed.), Mavo le-Sefer Rayyah (1938), 313–4, 329–30.
(Israel Moses Ta-Shma)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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