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It was penned by Rabbi Meir bar Yitzchak (the Nehorai) of Orléans, who was a cantor (prayer leader) in Worms, Germany, (died ca. 1095). Akdamut consists of praise for God, His Torah, and His people. Akdamut is read in almost all Ashkenazi synagogues on the first day of Shavuot during the Torah reading.
The Babylonian Talmud asserts that his actual name was not Meir but Nehorai, and that the real name of Nehorai was not Nehorai but rather Nehemiah or Eleazar ben Arach. [13] This passage is ambiguous regarding whether Meir was renamed twice (from Nehorai and previously from another name), or whether two rabbis (Meir and Nehorai) were each renamed.
Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen (c. 1482 – 12 January 1565) (also, Meir of Padua, or Maharam Padua, Hebrew: מאיר בן יצחק קצנלנבויגן) was a German rabbi born in Katzenelnbogen. Biography
Rabbi Meir was born between 1215 and 1220 in the Free City of Worms.His first teacher was his father, who descended from a long line of rabbis. He continued his training in Würzburg under Isaac ben Moses of Vienna and in France, where he remained until 1242, his teachers being Yechiel of Paris, Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise, and Samuel of Évreux, witnessing the burning of the Talmud on 17 ...
Elad Nehorai, American writer and activist; Eleazar ben Arach, who may have received the nickname Nehorai; Nehorai Garmon (c. 1682 –1760), Tunisian poet; Nehorai Ifrach, Israeli footballer; Rabbi Meir, whose previous name was Nehorai; Shalom Nehorai HaLevi, Yemenite Rabbi from Beit 'Adaqah who founded Tzuriel; Yair Nehorai, Israeli lawyer and ...
Moses Joseph Algazi (JE) Rabbi at Cairo, Egypt; born 1764; died after 1840, in which year he became prominent through the energetic support which he... Samuel ben Isaac ben Joseph Algazi (Alghasi), of Candia (JE) Talmudical commentator and historian, died shortly before 1588. He came of a family of scholars, both father and grandfather...
Ben Schamisso. October 20, 2023 at 9:34 PM ... In front of his home in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Rabbi Meir Hecht told Scripps News he feels like God has answered his community's prayers.
Rabbi Meir ben Solomon Abi-Sahula (Hebrew: רבי מאיר בן שלמה בן סהולה; c. 1251 – after 1335) also known as ben Sahula or ibn Sahula was a 13th-century Spanish kabbalist and Sephardic tosafist. He is known for his final commentary on Sefer Bahir, which he published under the pseudonym "Or HaGanuz" ("The Hidden Light").