Eliezer ben Jacob II (
Hebrew
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: אליעזר בן יעקב) was a
Tanna of the 2nd century.
Biography
He is mentioned among
Rabbi Akiva
Akiva ben Yosef (Mishnaic Hebrew: ''ʿĂqīvāʾ ben Yōsēf''; – 28 September 135 CE), also known as Rabbi Akiva (), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a '' tanna'' of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second c ...
's younger disciples who survived the fall of
Bethar and the subsequent
Hadrianic
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persecutions, including
Judah bar Ilai
Judah bar Ilai (), also known as Yehuda bar Ma'arava (, lit. "Judah of the West") and Rabbi Judah, was a rabbi of the 2nd century (fourth generation of tannaim). Of the many Judahs in the Talmud, he is the one referred to simply as "Rabbi Judah" a ...
,
Rabbi Meir
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,
Shimon bar Yochai
Shimon bar Yochai ( Zoharic Aramaic: שמעון בר יוחאי, ''Shim'on bar Yoḥai'') or Shimon ben Yochai (Mishnaic Hebrew: שמעון בן יוחאי, ''Shim'on ben Yoḥai''), also known by the acronym Rashbi, was a 2nd-century ''tannaiti ...
,
Eliezer b. Jose ha-Gelili
Eliezer ben Jose (Hebrew language, Heb. ''Eliezer ben Yose HaGelili'') was a Jewish rabbi who lived in Judea in the 2nd century. He was the son of Jose the Galilean, and is regarded as a Tannaim, tanna of the fourth generation. He was a pupil of R ...
. With most of them he maintained
halakhic disputations. He was the founder of a school known in the
Talmud
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after his name, "Debei R. Eliezer b. Jacob", which sometimes opposed the "Debe R. Ishmael".
Teachings
Like his older namesake,
Eliezer ben Jacob I
Eliezer ben Jacob I (Hebrew: אליעזר בן יעקב) was a Tanna of the 1st century; contemporary of Eleazar Chisma and Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, and senior to Judah ben Ilai.
Of his personal history nothing is known, except that he had seen the ...
, Eliezer II is quoted in both
halakhah
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and
aggadah
Aggadah ( he, ''ʾAggāḏā'' or ''Haggāḏā''; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ''ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ''; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, ...
.
From
Deuteronomy
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22:5 he concludes that a woman must never handle arms or go to war, and that man must not use ornaments which women usually wear.
It is related of him that he once gave up the seat of honor to a poor blind man. The distinction thus conferred on the visitor by so eminent a man induced the people thereafter bounteously to provide for the needy one, who, when he realized the cause of his good fortune, thanked its author. He said, "Thou hast shown kindness unto one who is seen, but cannot see: may He who sees, but cannot be seen, harken to thy prayers and show thee kindness".
Quotes
* One who performs a pious deed gains for himself an advocate
efore heaven and one who commits a sin creates an accuser against himself. Penitence and pious deeds constitute a shield against heavenly visitations".
Pirkei Avot
Pirkei Avot ( he, פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת; also transliterated as ''Pirqei Avoth'' or ''Pirkei Avos'' or ''Pirke Aboth''), which translates to English as Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethics, ethical teachings and Maxim ...
4:11
References
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
*
W. Bacher, Ag. Tan. i. 67–72, ii. 283–291;
*Brüll, Mebo ha-Mishnah, i. 71 et seq.;
*
Z. Frankel, Darke ha-Mishnah, pp. 73 et seq.;
*
Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot
Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin ( he, יחיאל היילפרין; c. 1660 – c. 1746) was a Lithuanian rabbi, kabalist, and chronicler.
Biography
He was a descendant of Solomon Luria, and traced his genealogy back through Rashi to the tanna Johan ...
, ed. Warsaw, 1897, ii. 57b et seq.;
*
Weiss, Dor
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After having received elementary instruction in Hebre ...
, ii. 41 et seq., 166 et seq.;
*
Zacuto
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, Yuḥasin, ed. Filipowski, pp. 31b et seq., 51a.
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