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JACOB BEN MEIR TAM (1100-1171)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 386 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JACOB See also:BEN See also:MEIR See also:TAM (1100-1171)  , a See also:grandson of See also:Rashi (q.v.), was the most famous See also:French glossator (tosafist) on the See also:text of the See also:Talmud . In 1147 he was attacked and injured by a disorderly See also:band who had attached themselves to the Crusaders . He escaped to the neighbouring See also:Troyes, where about 116o was held the first of the Jewish Synods, for which the Rhinelands became celebrated . At this See also:meeting it was laid down that disputes between See also:Jew and Jew were not to be carried to a See also:Christian See also:court, but were to be settled by fraternal See also:arbitration . New conditions of See also:life had arisen owing to the closer terms on which See also:Jews and Christians lived, and See also:Jacob See also:Tam was foremost in settling the terms which were to govern the relations, from the Jewish See also:side . Many others of his See also:practical ordinances (Takkanoth), connected with See also:marriage and See also:divorce, See also:trade and proselytism, as well as with See also:synagogue See also:ritual, had abiding See also:influence, and See also:bear invariably the See also:stamp of enlightened See also:independence within the limits of recognized authoritative tradition and See also:law . Of his legal See also:work the most important was collected in his Sefer ha-yashar . He was also a poet and grammarian . See See also:Gross, Gallia Judaica (See also:index) ; M . Schloessinger in Jewish Encyclopedia, vii . 36-39 . (I .

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