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] Meir HaKohen fluorished at Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire, in the late 13th century. 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]