Perez ben Elijah of
Corbeil (died 1295) was a French
tosafist, son of the
Talmudist Elijah of Tours. In
Talmudic literature he is designated by the abbreviations RaP (= Rabbeinu Perez), RaPaSh (= Rabbeinu Perez, may he live), and MaHaRPaSh (= our master Rabbeinu Perez, may he live).
Perez had for masters
Jehiel of Paris,
Jacob of Chinon and
Samuel of Evreux. He traveled throughout
Brabant, and sojourned for a time in
Germany, where he made the acquaintance of
Meir of Rothenburg. On his return home he delivered lectures on Talmudical subjects, which were attended by the most celebrated rabbis of the fourteenth century. His fame as a Talmudical authority eventually became universal, his commentaries being studied in
France,
Germany, and
Spain. He died before 1298, probably in 1295.
Perez was the author of the following works:
Glosses on the Ammude ha-Golah of
Isaac of Corbeil, published together with the text, Cremona, 1556.
Commentaries on the greater part of the
Talmud. These commentaries, variously entitled "Tosafot," "Shiṭṭah," "Nimuḳim," "Ḥiddushim," "Perishah," underwent many changes introduced by Perez's numerous disciples; only the commentary on the treatise
Baba Metzia has been preserved in its original redaction. Two of the commentaries, on
Baba Kamma and
Sanhedrin, were published by Abraham Venano at Leghorn in 1819; that on the tenth chapter of
Pesahim was reproduced by
Mordecai ben Hillel in his Mordekai; and many others were given by
Bezaleel Ashkenazi in his Shiṭṭah Meḳubbeẓet.
Glosses on the collection of the ritual laws entitled Tashbaẓ of
Samson ben Zadok, published together with the text, Cremona, 1556–1561. He also commented masechet
Nazir.
Sefer Pereẓ, a
Masoretic work which is no longer in existence.