Kalonymos family#Meshullam the Great

Meshullam ben Kalonymos was a rabbi, and Dezisor Pajtan the end of the 10th century. He is also known under the name Meshullam Meshullam the Great or of Rome.

Life

Meshullam comes from the significant association of Kalonymiden family, originally from Lucca in Italy and later in Provence and in Germany, notably Mainz and Speyer was established. The Kalonymiden played over several generations an important role in the dissemination of science and intended for liturgical use seal of Judaism in the Holy Roman Empire.

Due to its settlement in Mainz Meshullam brought both the learning of the Italian Jewry to the Rhine, as well as contacts to the Talmud interpreters of Jewish academies in Babylonia. Moses ben Kalonymos, or Moses the Elder, founded the Family of Kalonymiden in the early Middle Ages, he lived around 980 to him, the establishment of the Mainz community is attributed.

Meshullam was not only known for his poetry, but also by its decisions to the economy Culture driving under the trade families or communities. This Maarufja prohibits municipalities poach each other non-Jewish customers and build relationships with them, thus securing an exclusive distribution right to a specified customer. Meshullam probably had a decisive influence on the development of the Ashkenazic worship.

Leopold Zunz dated the date of death of Meshullam to the year 975 However, it is believed that Meshullam spent another 15 years to about 1000 to 1010 in Mainz. His grave stone from the year 1020 is inscribed with Rabbana Meshullam ben Rabbi Rabbana Kalonymos and the oldest identified grave stone on the Jews of Mainz sand.

His son was Rabbi Meshullam ben Kalonymos.