Eliezer Ben-Judah
Eliezer Ben-Judah [1]
(sometimes called Eleazar Garmiza but apparently without good reason), of Worms, the son of Kalonymos of Mentz, was one of the most distinguished Rabbins of the 13th century. He was a pupil of Judah the Saint, and died in 1238; He wrote thirty works, of which only a few have been printed. The principal ones are: Yoreh Chatcinz חֲטָאַים יוֹרֶה , "he will instruct sinners") a liturgical and ascetic formulary (Venice, 1589, 8vo, and often): Yeyn Ha-Rekach ( יֵין הָרֶקִח , "wine of spicery"), a cabalistic commentary on Canticles and Ruth (Lublin, 1608, 4to): — Sepher Rokeach ( סֵפֶר רֹקֵחִ , "spiced book"), on the fear of God and repentance (Fano, 1505, fol., and often since): — פֵּרוּשׁ , etc., a commentary on the cabalistic book Jezirah (Mantua, 1562, 4to, and since): — לַמּוּטַים , etc., a cabalistic exposition of the Pentateuch (extracts in Azulai's נִחִל קְדוּמַים , Leghorn, 1800): — סוֹדֵי רָזִיָּא , on angelology (in pait, Amst. 1701, 4to). Several of his works in MS. are at the Bibliotheque De L'Oratoire at Paris. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biogr. Gener. 15:826-7; Grasse, Allgem. Literargesch. 3:521; Furst, Bibliotheca Judaica, 1:228. (J.H.W.)
