Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil (died 1295) was a French tosafist, son of the Talmudist Elijah of Tours. In Talmudical literature he is designated by the abbreviations RaP (= Rabbi Perez), RaPaSh (= Rabbi Perez, may he live), and MaHaRPaSh (= our master Rabbi Perez, may he live).

Perez had for masters Rabbi Jehiel of Paris and Samuel of Evreux

Samuel of Évreux

Samuel of Évreux was a French tosafist of the thirteenth century, the younger brother and student of Moses of Évreux, author of the tosafot of Évreux. He is identified by Gross with Samuel ben Shneor Samuel of Évreux was a French tosafist of the thirteenth century, the younger brother and student...

. He traveled throughout Brabant

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, and sojourned for a time in Germany

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, where he made the acquaintance of Meir of Rothenburg

Meir of Rothenburg

Meir of Rothenburg was a German Rabbi and poet, a major author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud...

. On his return home he delivered lectures on Talmudical subjects. These lectures were attended by the most celebrated rabbis of the fourteenth century; and his fame as a Talmudical authority became universal, his commentaries being studied in France

France

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, Germany

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, and Spain

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. He died before 1298, probably in 1295.

Perez was the author of the following works:

1. Glosses on the Ammude ha-Golah of Isaac of Corbeil, published together with the text, Cremona, 1556.
2. Commentaries on the greater part of the Talmud
   Talmud
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   . 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
   Sanhedrin (Talmud)
   Sanhedrin is one of ten tractates of Seder Nezikin . It originally formed one tractate with Makkot, which also deals with criminal law...
   
   , were published by Abraham Venano at Leghorn in 1819; that on the tenth chapter of Pesahim
   Pesahim
   Pesahim is the third tractate of Seder Moed of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. It is concerned mainly with the laws of the Jewish holiday Passover as well as the Passover lamb offering...
   
    was reproduced by Mordecai ben Hillel
   Mordecai ben Hillel
   Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen , also known as The Mordechai, was a 13th century German rabbi and posek. His chief legal commentary on the Talmud, referred to as the Mordechai, is one of the sources of the Shulchan Aruch. He died a martyr's death at Nuremberg.-Biography:Little is known of the...
   
    in his Mordekai; and many others were given by Bezaleel Ashkenazi in his Shiṭṭah Meḳubbeẓet.
3. Glosses on the collection of the ritual laws entitled Tashbaẓ of Samson ben Zadok, published together with the text, Cremona, 1556-1561.
4. Sefer Pereẓ, a Masoretic work which is no longer in existence.

Sources

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography: Abraham Zacuto

Abraham Zacuto

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, Sefer Yuḥasin, ed. Filipowski, p. 233; Azulai

Chaim Joseph David Azulai

Chaim Joseph David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia , commonly known as the Chida , was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.- Biography :Azulai was born in Jerusalem, where he received his education...

, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii. 149; David Conforte

David Conforte

David Conforte was a Hebrew literary historian born in Salonica, author of the literary chronicle known by the title Ḳore ha-Dorot.-Biography:...

, Kore ha-Dorot, p. 17; Leopold Zunz

Leopold Zunz

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, Z. G. p. 41; Moritz Steinschneider

Moritz Steinschneider

Moritz Steinschneider was a Bohemian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider , who was not only an expert Talmudist, but was also well versed in secular science...

, Cat. Bodl. col. 2643; Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany...

-Adolf Neubauer

Adolf Neubauer

Adolf Neubauer was sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University....

, Les Rabbins Français, pp. 449 et seq.; Henri Gross, Gallia Judaica, pp. 565 et seq.