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Me�r Ibn Jair

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

Italian (?) Talmudist and grammarian of the sixteenth century. His family name seems to have been "Me�ri"; for he is always mentioned under the name of "Me�r le-Bet Me�r" (= "Me�r of the house of Me�r"). He is called "Ibn Jair" because is written after his name in the manuscript sources; it may, however, be an equivalent of "Me�r" or may mean "May his light continue." Me�r was the author of: "Ya�r Natib," or, according to Nepi-Ghirondi ("Toledot Gedole Yisrael," p. 255), "Me�r Natib" (Sabbionetta, 1553), a treatise on the law concerning the slaughtering of animals, frequently quoted by ?ayyim Benveniste in his "Keneset ha-Gedolah"; a treatise on the eight conjugations in Hebrew grammar, under the title "Simane kol Shemonah Binyanim" (ib. 1554), a work which was afterward revised by the author and published under the title of "Di?du?" (ib. 1597).