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Me�r ben Isaac of Orleans
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or French liturgical poet and, possibly, Biblical commentator of the end of the eleventh century. Me�r and his son Eleazar are quoted in the commentary to (29:11) wrongly ascribed to Rashi. He composed several piyyu?im, the best known of which are "Torah ha-Temimah" (a supplication interspersed with many Aramaic and Talmudic words and having the general rime in 
, and in which he expresses his horror of apostasy) and "Almanot ?ayyot," a seli?ah for Yom Kippur. Both piyyu?im are signed 
and are acrostics containing the name "Eleazar." The second piyyu? was translated into German by Zunz ("S. P." p. 184). There is a seli?ah beginning "Mi yodea' yashub," referring to a massacre of 3,000 Jews by the Crusaders, which, though it is signed 
and is an acrostic containing the name "Eleazar," is supposed by Zunz to have been composed a century later.
- Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 33;
- Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 167;
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 251.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Me�r ben Isaac of Orleans'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/m/mea-r-ben-isaac-of-orleans.html. 1901.
