• Eleazar ben Azariah (Hebrew: אלעזר בן עזריה) was a 1st-century CE Jewish tanna, i.e. Mishnaic sage. He was of the second generation and a junior contemporary...
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  • Azariah (high priest) high priest of Israel (1 Kings 4:2) Azariah II, another high priest, in the reign of Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:17–20) Eleazar ben...
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  • Ben Azariah may refer to: Daniel ben Azariah (11th-century), the gaon of the Land of Israel from 1051 till 1062 Eleazar ben Azariah, a 1st-century CE...
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  • Israelites" at Alma, which also houses the tombs of Eleazar ben Azariah, Honi HaMe'agel, Simeon ben Gamliel and Jose the Galilean. An anonymous Hebrew...
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  • obliged to share his office with Eleazar ben Azariah, who had originally been appointed his successor. Joshua esteemed Eleazar very highly, and on one occasion...
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  • Gamaliel II was deposed and Eleazar ben Azariah replaced him as Nasi. After Gamaliel was reinstated, Eleazar ben Azariah was made av beit din. The parallel...
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  • 15) Eleazar ben Ananus, Temple Captain in 66 CE who cancelled the sacrifices to Caesar Eleazar ben Azariah, first century Mishanic scholar Eleazar ben Arach...
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  • Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Tarfon, Ishmael ben Elisha, Eleazar ben Azariah, Jose the Galilean, Nathan the Babylonian and Elisha ben Abuyah (the "Other" or apostate)...
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  • hair is represented in the Talmud in the story of a Jewish scholar, Eleazar ben Azariah, who developed sudden white hair at age 17, ostensibly from his vigorous...
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  • after the Great Revolt by pleading with the Emperor Vespasian. Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah, who was nasi between 118 and 120 CE, was not given the title rabban...
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  • come. Eleazar of Modi'im wrote that Jews, when guilty of the same sin as gentiles, will not enter hell whereas the gentiles will. Eleazar ben Azariah believed...
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    High Priest Eleazar ben Aaron was buried (Joshua 24:33) Wikiquote has quotations related to Eleazar. Lives of the saints - Righteous Eleazar, Macedonian...
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    between man and his fellow, that is until he has appeased his friend. Eleazar ben Azariah derived [this from the verse]: "From all your sins before God you...
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  • quoted with praise by Eleazar ben Azariah, has found a place in the Haggadah for the Passover night. In a halakhic interpretation, Ben Zoma explains the word...
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  • halakhic decision (which was accepted in Jabneh on the day when Eleazar ben Azariah was elected president in the place of Gamaliel II) and also (2) resolved...
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  • discussion between him and Eleazar ben Azariah and Akiva, his name precedes that of Akiva. In contrast, Eleazar ben Shammua was an acknowledged disciple...
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    certain age is, of course, necessary. When Yohanan ben Zakkai wished to initiate Eleazar ben Azariah in the Ma'aseh Merkabah, the latter answered, "I am...
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  • executes one person in seven years — or seventy years, according to Eleazar ben Azariah — is considered bloodthirsty. During the Late Antiquity, the tendency...
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  • authority of Eleazar ben Azariah: "Similarly, R' Yehoshua ben Karcha would declare pure due to [the authority of] R' Eleazar ben Azariah" in Tosefta,...
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    re-established in Yavneh, with reduced authority, by agreement between Yochanan ben Zakai and Roman Emperor Vespasian. Vespasian agreed in part due to the perception...
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    family, who were allegedly able to trace their ancestry back to Eleazar ben Azariah, a 1st-century sage in the Land of Israel. Baruch David immigrated...
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  • Mishnah. He takes part in halakhic disputes with Eleazar ben Azariah and Rabbi Akiva and with Eliezer ben Jacob I. To him is ascribed the economic rule that...
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    interpreted the laws of corpse contamination in Numbers 19:11–16. Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah counseled Rabbi Akiva to stop studying Aggadah (the homiletic exegetical...
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    in a visit to R. Ishmael ben Elisha, upon the death of Ishmael's sons; and when Jose the Galilean, Tarfon, Eleazar ben Azariah, and Rabbi Akiva assembled...
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  • by David. (1 Chronicles 23:19; 24:23) A Levite in the line of Eleazar a son of Azariah who "executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built"...
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  • executes one person in seven years – or seventy years, according to Eleazar ben Azariah – is considered bloodthirsty. During the Late Antiquity, the tendency...
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    justified'), was a Kohen (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron. He was the High Priest of Israel during the reigns of...
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  • relative, Joshua the High Priest. Rabbis of Zadokite lineage include Eleazar ben Azariah (noted as being of tenth generation lineage to Ezra) and his descendants...
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    between your eyes!" Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah wondered whether anyone in his generation knew how to reprove. Rabbi Johanan ben Nuri said that he would often...
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  • Eleazar ben Azariah (115–120) (Sons of Zadok) Interregnum (Bar Kokhba revolt) (132–135) Judah bar Ilai c. 140 moved the Sanhedrin to Usha Shimon ben Gamliel...
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