Simon ben Judah Löb Peiser
18th-century Polish rabbi and scholar
Simon ben Judah Löb Peiser (Hebrew: שמעון בן יהודה ליב פייזר; born c. 1690 in Peisern) was a rabbi and scholar active in Lissa, Poland.
He is known as the author of Naḥalat Shim'oni, a reference work divided into four sections:
A Biblical onomasticon, referencing all aggadot found in Babylonian Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, and the Five Megillot, with marginal notes titled ‘En Rogel, which provide references to parallel passages;
An onomasticon of all the rabbis of the Mishnah who appear in the Babylonian Talmud;
An onomasticon of the rabbis of the baraitot; and
An onomasticon of the Amoraim.
The first two sections were published in Wandsbeck in 1728. The third and fourth sections, as well as a Talmudic methodology, remained unpublished.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard; Ochser, Schulim (1905). "Peiser, Simon ben Judah Löb". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol.
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