Eliezer ben Nathan
Halakist and poet · Writers · Lived 1090 to 1170 · aged 80
Eliezer ben Nathan of Mainz (1090-1170), or Ra'avan, was a halakist and liturgical poet. As an early Rishon, he was a contemporary of the Rashbam and Rabbeinu Tam, and one of the earliest of the Tosafists. He was the son-in-law of Eliakim b. Joseph of Mainz, a fellow student of Rashi.
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Through his four daughters Eliezer became the ancestor of several learned families which exerted a great influence upon religious life in the subsequent centuries. One of his great-grandsons was R. Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh), father of R. Jacob, author of the Ṭurim.
