Eliakim ben Meshullam

Who is Eliakim ben Meshullam?

Eliakim ben Meshullam was a German rabbi, Talmudist and payyeṭan.

He studied at the yeshivot in Mainz and Worms, having Rashi as a fellow student. Eliakim himself founded a Talmudical school in Speyer.

He wrote a commentary on all the tractates of the Talmud except Berakot and Niddah, which was used by scholars as late as the fourteenth century. At present there exists only the commentary on Yoma, in manuscript.

Ritual decisions by Eliakim are mentioned by Rashi. He was the composer of a piyyuṭ, to be read when a circumcision takes place in the synagogue on a Saturday.