Bnei Bathyra (Hebrew: בני בתירא, lit. "The Sons of Bathyra"; Also referred to in the Jerusalem Talmud as זקני בתירא, lit. "The Elders of Bathyra") were...

Judah ben Bathyra or simply Judah Bathyra (also Beseira, Hebrew: יהודה בן בתירא) was an eminent tanna. The Mishnah quotes 17 laws by R. Judah, and the...

Mesopotamia), an excellent Jewish college, at the head of which stood Judah ben Bathyra, and in which many Judean scholars found refuge at the time of the persecutions...

Shammua' and R. Johanan HaSandlar left Israel to study from R. Judah ben Bathyra, they only managed to reach Sidon when "the thought of the sanctity of...

sacrificial ritual in a manner that showed his superiority over the Bnei Bathyra, who were at that time the heads of the Sanhedrin. On that occasion, it...

or Chaninah, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Judah ben Bathyra and Jonathan Hanina ben Hakinai, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary...

as a law and was in return elevated to the dignity of nasi by Judah ben Bathyra.(B.Pesachim 68a). The people taking part in the sacrifice were divided...

bar Yochai's superiority, thus displaying the same modesty as the Bnei Bathyra when they gave way to Hillel, and as Jonathan when he voluntarily gave...

was at Nisibis, where he delivered precepts in the college of Judah ben Bathyra. Jewish Encyclopedia article for Rabbi Josiah by Isidore Singer and Jacob...

from Babylonia, and his 500 mounted archers to settle in the village of Bathyra in Batanea, in modern Syria, granting them tax exemptions. This settlement...

of Zugot Era Hillel the Elder Shammai Houses of Hillel and Shammai Bnei Bathyra Menahem Hananiah ben Hezekiah ben Garon Simeon ben Hillel First Generation...

considered a family, under the name Pantheidae. Anacronicta Anepholcia Bathyra Brandtina Charadra Colocasia Disepholcia Elydnodes Gaujonia Lichnoptera...

concerning a splendid feast which the exilarch once gave to the tanna Judah ben Bathyra at Nisibis on the eve of Tisha Beav. though in the more exact S. Buber's...

on the face of the ground" to refer to the next world. Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra deduced from the words "My spirit will not always enter into judgment with...

the man executed for gathering sticks on the Sabbath. Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra answered Akiva that Akiva would have to give an account for his accusation...

on the face of the ground" to refer to the next world. Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra deduced from the words "My spirit will not always enter into judgment with...

Nisibis, the place of the reciter of oral traditions, Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra, a man endowed with understanding; and Hamath and Damascus and Syria, and...

relocated Zamaris, a Jew from Babylonia, and his 500 mounted archers to Bathyra in Batanea, giving them tax exemptions to defend the area from Trachonite...

Mesopotamia, an excellent Jewish college, at the head of which stood Judah ben Bathyra, and in which many Judean scholars found refuge at the time of the persecutions...

was discovered in al-Sanamayn. Sanamayn has also been associated with Bathyra, a village situated on the border between Batanaea and Trachonitis, where...

ben Shammua left Palestine, intending to betake themselves to Judah ben Bathyra in Nisibis; but they did not carry out their intention. By the time they...

the man executed for gathering sticks on the Sabbath. Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra answered Akiva that Akiva would have to give an account for his accusation...

Prince also is often mentioned here, as in other midrashic works Judah ben Bathyra, who, as David Hoffmann says, is more frequently mentioned in midrashic...

Judah ben Bathyra asked him whether he had ever eaten of the fat tail, and the Syrian replied that he had not. So Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra told the Syrian...

Babylonia, and his contingent of 500 mounted archers to settled the village of Bathyra in Batanea (possibly near modern-day as-Sanamayn), giving them an exemption...

older colleagues are given. Chapter 8: The opinions of members of Bnei Bathyra (1, 3) and of important contemporaries and older teachers (2, 4) are presented;...

cited a Tanna who concurred with Rabbi Eliezer's position: Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra likened Korah's assembly to a lost article, which one seeks, as Psalm 119:176...

law . . . that the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai," Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra counted Leviticus 7:38 among 13 limiting phrases recorded in the Torah...

that even as many as 50 such hairs could be plucked. But Rabbi Joshua ben Bathyra ruled that even if it had only one non-red hair on its head and one on...

should they be deemed whole (and not wanting) before God. Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra taught that in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, Jews could not rejoice...