Eleazar ha-Kalir

Eleazar berabbi Qallir, a liturgical poet of Byzantine Palestine, lived, according to the most widely accepted estimate, around 570-640; old conjectures have ranged over several centuries and his place of origin remains disputed. His acrostics call him son of Qallir, whereas manuscripts from the Cairo geniza give his father the name Jacob. Tradition makes him the pupil of Yannai, and a twelfth-century source tells that the master, out of jealousy, killed him; another tradition derives his name from the Greek word for a cake given to children entering school.

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