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Eleazar ben Eleazar Kallir (Hebrew: אלעזר בן אלעזר קליר, romanized: Elʻazar ben Elʻazar Ḳalir; 1728–1805) was a Hungarian rabbi and author, who served as av beit din of Rechnitz and of Kolín. He was the grandson of Meir Eisenstadt, author of Panim Me'irot.

He wrote Or Ḥadash, in three parts: (a) commentary on the Pentateuch which forms a part of his grandfather's work Kotnot Or (Fürth, 1766); (b) novellæ on Pesaḥim; and (c) novellæ on Ḳiddushin (Frankfort-on-the-Oder and Vienna, 1766–1799). He also published Ḥavvot Ya'ir Ḥadash (Prague, 1792), a collection of sermons, and Ḥeḳer Halakhah (Vienna, 1838), responsa.

Notes

1. Died in Ḥeshvan 5561 (October–November 1800) according to Fuenn.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schechter, Solomon; London, N. T. (1904). "Kallir, Eleazar b. Eleazar". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 423–424.

1. ^ Fuenn, Shmuel Yosef (1886). Knesset Yisrael: zikhronot le-toldot gedole Yisrael ha-nodaʻim la-shem be-toratam, be-ḥokhmatam, uve-maʻasehem [The Assembly of Israel: A Biographical Lexicon of the Great Persons of Israel Known for their Scholarship, Wisdom, and Deeds] (in Hebrew). Warsaw: Boymriter & Gonshor. p. 142.
2. Zedner, Joseph (1867). Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: Wertheimer, Lea and Co. p. 417.

• 1728 births
• 1805 deaths
• 18th-century rabbis from Bohemia
• 18th-century Hungarian rabbis
• Writers from Kolín