Examination of Rabbinic Commentaries on Moses

[having] finished his life, nor having returned to Lorraine, and that for nearly an entire century afterwards, the possession of Palestine was held by Christian kings. From the παρρησία boldness/freedom of speech of forging [these claims], one may also estimate how much credit they deserve when they claim that they were able to hide themselves, and for fear of tyranny, like some resurrected Elisha, had made themselves invisible, when the aforementioned Duke (by all accounts otherwise most clement) had sought him at his home, accompanied by a great crowd of attendants. Helvicus Christopher Helvicus, a chronologist, Fab. Jud. a work on Jewish history, part 2, no. 53. He lived 75 years, dying in a vigorous old age in the Jewish year 4865 מבריאת עולם from the creation of the world, which is reduced to the Christian year 1105 if we subtract 3760 from it. I proceed to Aben-Ezra; he is indeed called by his own name ר' אברהם בן מאיר אבן עזרא R. Abraham son of R. Meir, grandson of Esra, which appears from his rhythmical preface to the Pentateuch, where he beautifully alludes to his own name and that of his father and grandfather with a triple Paronomasia pun/wordplay: אנא אלהי אבי אברהם עשה חסד עם עבדך אברהם / ויהי פתח לברך מאיר לעבדך בן עבדך מאיר / ומישועותפניך תבא עזרה לבן אמתך הנקרא בן עזרא: I beseech Thee, O God of my father Abraham (the Patriarch), do kindness with Thy servant ABRAHAM, and let the gate of Thy word be opened to bless the light (Meir) to Thy servant, the son of Thy servant MEIR, and may help come from the salvation of Thy face to the son of Thy handmaid, who is called BEN EZRA. Whence it is clear that Rabbi Meir was his parent, but Esra was his grandfather, and indeed his maternal one. Esra preferred to be named from him rather than from his father Meir; perhaps looking to that stone, 1 Sam. 7:12, which it is read that Samuel erected between Mizpah and Sen in memory of a miraculous victory won over the Philistines, and called אבן עזר Eben-Ezer, stone of help; or professing his own readiness to help by this name, because he does not intend to consume fruit in vain, much less to harm anyone, but rather to help everyone through his study. Because [he is] an author:

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