Eleazar ben Eleazar Kallir (Hebrew: אלעזר בן אלעזר קליר, romanized: Elʻazar ben Elʻazar Ḳalir; 1728–1805)[note 1] was a Hungarian rabbi and author, who served as av beit din of Rechnitz and of Kolín. He was the grandson of Meir Eisenstadt, author of Panim Me'irot.[1]
Eleazar Kallir | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | 1728 |
| Died | 1805 (aged 76–77) |
| Religion | Judaism |
He wrote Or Ḥadash, in three parts: (a) commentary on the Pentateuch which forms a part of his grandfather's work Kotnot Or (Fürth, 1766); (b) novellæ on Pesaḥim; and (c) novellæ on Ḳiddushin (Frankfort-on-the-Oder and Vienna, 1766–1799). He also published Ḥavvot Ya'ir Ḥadash (Prague, 1792), a collection of sermons, and Ḥeḳer Halakhah (Vienna, 1838), responsa.[2]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schechter, Solomon; London, N. T. (1904). "Kallir, Eleazar b. Eleazar". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 423–424.
- ^ a b Fuenn, Shmuel Yosef (1886). Knesset Yisrael: zikhronot le-toldot gedole Yisrael ha-nodaʻim la-shem be-toratam, be-ḥokhmatam, uve-maʻasehem [The Assembly of Israel: A Biographical Lexicon of the Great Persons of Israel Known for their Scholarship, Wisdom, and Deeds] (in Hebrew). Warsaw: Boymriter & Gonshor. p. 142.
- ^ Zedner, Joseph (1867). Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: Wertheimer, Lea and Co. p. 417.