Shimon ben Lakish (Hebrew: שמעון בן לקיש; Imperial Aramaic: שמעון בר לקיש Shim‘on bar Lakish or bar Lakisha), better known by his nickname Reish Lakish...

support offered to him by Judah. Yochanan also induced Judah to visit Shimon ben Lakish, who had fled from Tiberias in consequence of having made offensive...

tractates of the Order is given in the Talmud itself (Shabbat 31a), by Shimon ben Lakish, who homiletically states that the first of the six terms in a verse...

Among the earliest Amoraim in Israel were Johanan bar Nappaha and Shimon ben Lakish. Traditionally, the Amoraic period is reckoned as seven or eight generations...

Gershon (d. 1344); David Kimhi (1160); Saadia ben Joseph (892–942); Shimon ben Lakish (230–270), David Joris (1501-1556), Lelio Sozzini (1525-1562), Fausto...

these laws might give gentiles an advantage in dealing with Jews. Shimon ben Lakish wrote that "A gentile who observes Sabbath deserves death". Under...

the angels were brought by the Jews from Babylonia", attributed to Shimon ben Lakish or Rabbi Hanina respectively. Raphael first appears in two works of...

Gabriel takes the form of a man, and stands at the left hand of God. Shimon ben Lakish (Syria Palaestina, 3rd century) concluded that the angelic names of...

proto-deacon and bishop of Bosra Beryllus of Bostra, 3rd century, Bishop Shimon ben Lakish, 3rd century, amora of the second generation and rabbi Titus of Bostra...

Hell, p. 64 Chananel; et al. (2003), Hut ha-meshulash, p. 183, Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish as well as his colleague Rabbi Yannai said that there is no such thing...

However, he himself was not resigned at the death of his brother-in-law Shimon ben Lakish, his fellow amora, whom he affectionately called "my counterpart"...

Eleazar, Ulla transmitted those of R. Hoshaiah, Joshua ben Levi, R. Johanan, Rav, and Shimon ben Lakish. His own sayings were transmitted by R. Aha bar Adda...

Philistia, in an attempt to suppress Jewish connection to the land. (H.H. Ben-Sasson: A History of the Jewish People, Harvard University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-674-39731-2...

death of Shimon ben Lakish, Eleazar was chosen to fill the position of assistant to Johanan. When Johanan became disabled through grief at Shimon's death...

in the city of Lod. He was an elder contemporary of Johanan ben Nappaha and Resh Lakish, who presided over the academy in Tiberias. With Johanan bar...

(180–279) Bar Kappara Shimon ben Lakish, Amora in Judea (c.200–c.275) Joshua ben Levi (early 3rd century), headed the school of Lod. Samuel ben Nahman Shila of...

individual, unless the original demand was for a specified individual. R. Shimon b. Lakish adds the condition that the specified individual be deserving of death...

assertion that reciting the Shema in bed keeps demons away. Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish reasoned from Deuteronomy 32:24 that Torah study keeps away painful...

Shimon ben Lakish (Resh Lakish) taught that this can be proven from Jacob's flattery of Esau in Genesis 33:10. The Gemara noted that Rabbi Shimon ben...

in Genesis 25:5. But Rabbi Judah and the Rabbis disagreed. Shimon ben Lakish (Resh Lakish) taught that God's blessing of Abraham in Genesis 12:2, "And...

Arikha and Samuel of Nehardea on one side, and Yochanan bar Nafcha and Shimon ben Lakish on the other, regarding in what type of situations a tinok shenishba...

directs appointment of judges in all the Israelites' cities. Shimon ben Lakish (Resh Lakish) deduced from the proximity of the discussions of appointment...

name, and Shimon ben Lakish asked him a question of halacha. Efes did not survive Judah ha-Nasi by many years. He was succeeded by Hanina ben Hama. Genesis...

Israel where he studied under Hanina and Joshua ben Levi. He may also have been influenced by Shimon ben Lakish. Hiyya was also a student of Johanan bar Nappaha...

explained in the Midrash: Yehuda bar Nahmani began in the name of Shimon ben Lakish: "Elohim ascends amidst shouting, YHWH to the blast of the shofar"...

in halakhic matters. This is how he also got to know R. Shimon ben Lakish and R. Eleazar ben Pedat, whom he also disputed and debated in halakha. The...

rest. What would be lacking if he were buried elsewhere? Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish (Resh Lakish) explained in the name of Bar Kappara that Israel is the land...

interpreted the law of meal offerings in Leviticus 2. Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish (Resh Lakish) noted that Scripture uses the word "covenant" with regard to...

believed to house the tombs of Rabbi Yohanan from Kasion and Rabbi Shimon Ben Lakish. Qision's ruins were first discovered in 1860 by Ernest Renan. The...

to the Land of Israel he studied with R. Yochanan bar Nafcha and Shimon ben Lakish, and submitted to them rulings by Rav. Even with Yochanan bar Nafcha...