Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi

Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (c. 1270 – c. 1340) (Hebrew: ידעיה הבדרשי) was a Jewish poet, physician, and philosopher; born at Béziers (hence his surname Bedersi). His Occitan name was En Bonet, which probably corresponds to the Hebrew name Tobiah;[1] and, according to the practices of Hachmei Provence, he occasionally joined to his name that of his father, Abraham Bedersi.

In his poems he assumed the appellation "Penini" (הפניני, "Dispenser of Pearls"), and because of this appellation the ethical work Mibḥar haPeninim of Solomon ibn Gabirol has been erroneously ascribed to Bedersi.

  1. ^ compare Oheb Nashim in the Zunz Jubelschrift, Hebrew part, p. 1)