Meir's son Isaac, the often-quoted tosafist, died in the prime of life, leaving seven children.
[4] This loss distressed the father to such an extent that he felt indisposed to answer a halakic question addressed to him by his friend Eleazar ben Nathan of Mainz.
[5] From the fact that his grandson, Isaac ben Samuel (born about 1120) speaks of religious customs which he found conspicuous in his grandfather's house, and from other indications, it has been concluded that Meir was still alive in 1135.
Not only his son and pupil Rabbenu Tam,[6] but also the tosafot[7] quote his ritual decisions.
[9] Meir composed also a seliḥah beginning "Avo lefanekha," which has been translated into German by Zunz,[10] but which has no considerable poetic value.
304, 542, 635; D. Rosin, Samuel ben Meïr als Schrifterklärer, in Jahresbericht des Jüdisch-Theologischen Seminars, pp.