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'''Simeon ben Helbo Kara''' was a French [[rabbi]] who lived in [[Le Mans|Mans]] in the 11th century; brother of [[Menahem ben Helbo]] and father of [[Joseph Ḳara]].  [[Isaac de Lattes]], in his ''Ḳiryat Sefer,'' counts Ḳara among the prominent French rabbis, although no work of his has survived. [[J.L. Rapoport]] identified him with the compiler of the [[Yalḳuṭ Shim'oni]], on account of the similarity of some [[Midrashic]] quotations in this work with citations in [[Rashi]]'s [[Bible]] commentary. [[Abraham Epstein]] has, however, shown that in the manuscripts the name "Ḳara" does not occur, and in place of "Simeon" the reading "Simson" at times is found.{{sfnp|Gottheil|Broydé|1904}}

The surname ''Ḳara'' is usually taken to be a professional name, meaning 'reader' or 'interpreter of the Bible'. [[Adolf Jellinek]] the Austrian rabbi and historian points out, however, that ''Ḳara'', as contrasted with ''[[Derash]]'', means the 'representative of the ''[[Peshaṭ]]''{{'}}.{{sfnp|Gottheil|Schloessinger|1904}}

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* {{JewishEncyclopedia|last1=Gottheil |first1=Richard |last2=Broydé |first2=Isaac |page=438 |volume=7|url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9210-kara-simeon |title=Ḳara, Simeon}}
* {{JewishEncyclopedia|last1=Gottheil |first1=Richard |last2=Schloessinger |first2=Max |pages=436−437 |volume=7|url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10626-menahem-ben-helbo |title=ḲARA, JOSEPH BEN SIMEON}}
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===''Jewish Encyclopedia'' bibliography===
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* [[Leopold Zunz|Zunz]], Leopold, ''Gottesdienstliche Vorträge'' p.&nbsp;313
** Zunz, ''Zur Geschichte und Literatur'' p.&nbsp;61
* [[J.L. Rapoport]]. ''Kerem Ḥemed'', vii. 4 et seq.
* Kirchheim, in ''Literaturblatt des Orients'' iv. 253
* [[A. Geiger]], ''Niṭ'e Na'amanim'', German part, p.&nbsp;8
** Geiger, in ''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft'' xxviii. 300
* [[I.H. Weiss]], in ''Bet Talmud'', ii. 35
* Brüll's ''Jahrbücher für Jüdische Geschichte und Litteratur'' viii. 113
* [[Abraham Epstein]], in ''Ha-Ḥoḳer'', i. 85 et seq. 
* [[Chaim Joseph David Azulai|Chaim Azulai]], ''Shem ha-Gedolim,'' ed. Benjacob, i.36
* [[David Conforte]], ''Dore ha-Dorot'' (see index in Cassel ed.)
* Frumkin, ''Eben Shemuel,'' pp.&nbsp;67 et seq., 125 et seq., Vilna, 1874
* [[Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim]] (Heimann Joseph Michael), No. 612
* [[Luncz]], in ''Jerusalem,'' ii.23-27
* Responsa of [[Yom-Tov Zahalon]], No. 160
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