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Eliezer ben Samuel

French rabbi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ1329306 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eliezer ben Samuel of Metz (died 1198) was a Tosafist and the author of the halachic work Sefer Yereim (Vilna 1892). An abridgment of this work was produced by Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw.

See also

Moses ben Meir of Ferrara

References

Finkel, Avraham Yaakov (1990). The Great Torah Commentators. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson.

External links

"אליעזר ממיץ, ספר יראים". Jewish Encyclopedia Daat (in Hebrew). Herzog College.

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The public source identifies “Eliezer ben Samuel” as french rabbi. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Eliezer, Samuel and French.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1198, 1892, 1990—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1115-01-01, 1100—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Eliezer, Samuel and French providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1329306. VIAF identifies the subject as 25994023. The Library of Congress control number is n84007485. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1198, 1892 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eliezer ben Samuel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.