• Eleazar ha-Kappar (Hebrew: אלעזר הקפר) was a Jewish rabbi of the fifth and last generation of the tannaim. He was a colleague of Judah ha-Nasi and was...
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    and Simeon ben Eleazar. His better-known contemporaries and students include Simon b. Manasseh, Pinchas ben Yair, Eleazar ha-Kappar and his son Bar Kappara...
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  • ordained as a rabbi. His full name was Eleazar (there seems to be no ground for the form "Eliezer") ben Eleazar ha-Kappar. This is the form appearing in the...
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  • offer a sin-offering at the end of their vow (Numbers 6:13–14), Rabbi Eleazar ha-Kappar argued that nazirites are effectively sinners for unnecessarily distressing...
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    against his own person by his vow of abstaining from wine," says Eleazar ha-Kappar. In contrast, Nachmanides argued that being a nazirite is a desirable...
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  • Generation Judah haNasi (Judah I) Huna Kamma Jose ben Judah Ishmael ben Jose Eleazar ben Simeon Simeon ben Eleazar Eleazar ha-Kappar Symmachus ben Joseph...
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    morah) in the case of Samuel to show that he was a nazirite. Rabbi Eleazar ha-Kappar taught that Numbers 6:11 required priests to "make atonement for"...
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    בית מדרשו שהלרבי [= של רבי] אליעזר הקפר”. The inscription refers to Eleazar ha-Kappar, a Tanna of the fifth generation, who was active in Katzrin and its...
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    families, by their fathers' houses" in Numbers 1:18 for Rabbi Eliezer ha-Kappar's proposition that the Israelites displayed virtue by not changing their...
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