Meir HaKohen

For other people with the same name, see Meir HaKohen Shiff.

Meir HaKohen^[1] was a German rabbinical scholar of the end of the thirteenth century.^[2] He authored Hagahot Maimuniot^[1] (or Haggahot Maimuniyyot^[2]) (הגהות מיימוניות, abbreviated הגהמי"י) on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Giulio Bartolocci^[3] mistakenly identifies him with Meïr Ha-Kohen, a French scholar of the same century.^[2] He was a student of Meir of Rothenburg.^[4]

Works

Hagahot Maimuniot, authored by Meir HaCohen, is one of the most important sources for the halachic rulings of medieval Ashkenazi rabbis. It takes the form of a running commentary on the Mishneh Torah by Maimonides, and nowadays commonly appears at the bottom of the page in many printed editions of Mishneh Torah. There is also a section entitled Teshuvot Maimuniot which appears at the end of each book of Mishneh Torah.^[4]

References

1. Trachtenberg, Joshua (2004) [Originally published 1939]. Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780812218626.
2.   One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Seligsohn, M. (1901–1906). "MEÏR HA-KOHEN". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
3. Bartolocci (1693). Bibliothecae Magnae Rabbinicae. Vol. iv. p. 20.
4. Haggahot Maimuniyyot