Samson ben Samuel

Samson ben Samuel of Jerusalem (שמשון בן שמואל איש ירושלים), also called Samson ben Samuel of Düren (מדורין) was born c. 1330 in Düren, Germany.[1] He is known as the author of Kitzur Mordechai, an abridgement of Mordechai ben Hillel's work (not to be confused with the Mordechai Katan of Samuel ben Aaron Schlettstadt),[2] and the Yeriot Izzim, a description of the 613 commandments in rhyming verse. According to Elhanan Reiner, the Yeriot Izzim was composed c. 1350 in Jerusalem.[3] According to Shammai Rubin, the Kitzur Mordechai was completed c. 1382.[4] The Yeriot Izzim includes explanatory glosses, though Reiner and Ephraim Kupfer dispute whether Samson himself is the author.[5][3]

Only his Yeriot Izzim has been fully printed, in Venice, 1597.[6] The Kitzur Mordechai on Yoma was published by Israel Peles in 1992,[7] and the Kitzur Mordechai on Rosh Hashanah was published by Shammai Rubin in 2022.[8]

References

  1. ^ Dan, Joseph (1994). Jewish Intellectual History in the Middle Ages. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-275-94777-4.
  2. ^ These titles may interchange depending on the source, and there are other titles used, and other abridgements mentioned, in older writings. See Rubin, Shammai (2022). Kuntres be-Inyanei Tekiat Shofar (in Hebrew). p. [10] n. 2.
  3. ^ a b Reiner, Elhanan (1984). "From Ashkenaz to Jerusalem". Shalem (in Hebrew). Vol. 4. Yitzhak ben Zvi. pp. 97–103 – via Academia.
  4. ^ p. [10]
  5. ^ Kupfer, Ephraim (Franciszek) (1974). "Rabbi Samson b. Samuel, Man of Jerusalem, and Rabbi Abraham b. Samuel Temlin of Jerusalem". Shalem (in Hebrew). 1: 97–103 – via Academia.
  6. ^ Ish Yerushalayim, Shimshon ben Shmuel (1597). Yeriot Izzim (in Hebrew). Giovanni di Gara.
  7. ^ Peles, Israel (1992). "Kitzur ha-Mordechai leRabbenu Shimshon miDuren". Even Yisrael: Kovetz Torani (in Hebrew). Bnei Brak. pp. 52-67.
  8. ^ Rubin, Shammai (2022). Kuntres be-Inyanei Tekiat Shofar (in Hebrew). p. [10]-20.
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