GERONDI, SAMUEL BEN MESHULLAM
- GERONDI, SAMUEL BEN MESHULLAM
- GERONDI, SAMUEL BEN MESHULLAM (c. 1300), scholar of Gerona,
Catalonia. Hardly any biographical details are known of him. Gerondi's
fame rests primarily on his Ohel Mo'ed (1 (Jerusalem, 1886);
2 (Jerusalem, 1904), a comprehensive code consisting only of such laws
as are of practical application. The book is divided into 4 parts: (1)
Ma'arekhet Tamid, on the reading of the Shema,
prayer, blessings, tefillin, mezuzah, ẓiẓit; appended is a
separate section ("gate") devoted to morals and ethics; (2) Avodat
ha-Mishkan, the laws of ritual slaughter, terefot,
ritual law, including laws of marriage; (3) Mishmeret
ha-Kodesh, on the Sabbath and the eruv ; (4) Yare'aḥ
le-Mo'adim, on the festivals. Each part is subdivided into
chapters, sections, and subsections called "gates," "roads," and
"paths," respectively. In this work, written after 1320, the author
quotes extensively from the early Spanish, Provençal, and German
scholars. Like the Toledot Adam ve-Ḥavvah of his
contemporary, jeroham b. meshullam , Gerondi's work was to a large
extent superseded by the Arba'ah Turim of
jacob b. asher , which fulfilled essentially the same task in a
far more comprehensive manner and which was superior both in form and
style. joseph caro is almost the sole authority to quote Gerondi.
His work, as it has come down, is an abridged version by the author
himself of a larger work which is no longer extant.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Gruenhut, in: JQR, 11 (1898/99), 345–9.
(Israel Moses Ta-Shma)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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