• Eliezer ben Hurcanus (or Hyrcanus) (Hebrew: אליעזר בן הורקנוס) was one of the most prominent Judean tannaitic Sages of 1st- and 2nd-century Judaism, a...
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  • enumerating them, tradition places him at the head together with Eliezer ben Hurcanus. Tradition also frequently mentions these two together as upholders...
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  • Shelah HaKadosh Maimonides Eliezer ben Hurcanus Joshua ben Hananiah Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue, located in Jerusalem's Old City Ben Zakai, a village in central...
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    biblical stories. Traditionally, the work is attributed to the tanna Eliezer ben Hurcanus and his school. Modern research suggests that the text is pseudepigraphic...
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  • Yavneh, Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah and Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus, the teachers of Rabbi Akiva, as well as Gamaliel of Yavne and Eleazar ben Arach Third Generation...
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    Rabbi Akiva (redirect from Akiva ben Yosef)
    town, Lod, presided over by Eliezer ben Hurcanus. Hurcanus was a neighbour of Joseph, the father of Akiva. The fact that Eliezer was his first teacher, and...
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  • have limited this teaching to idolators and only at times of war. Eliezer ben Hurcanus writes that the mind of every gentile is always intent upon idolatry...
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  • Jewish High Priest, 134–104 BCE Hyrcanus II, King of Judea, 67–66 BCE Eliezer ben Hurcanus or Hyrcanus, prominent sage in Judea in the 1st and 2nd centuries...
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  • Elisha ben Abuyah (Hebrew: אלישע בן אבויה) (spelled variously, including Elisha ben Avuya) was a rabbi and Jewish religious authority born in Jerusalem...
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  • Talmud; in Hullin 129b he is referred to disagreeing with Eliezer ben Hurcanus and Joshua ben Hananiah regarding a halakhah. In a post-Talmudic text, he...
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    rule against utilizing knowledge of the Torah for practical ends. When Eliezer ben Hyrcanus was sick, and a deputation was sent to him, Tarfon acted as...
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    Maimonides (redirect from Moussa Ben Maimon)
    HaRambam compound / complex are: Shelah HaKadosh Eliezer ben Hurcanus Yohanan ben Zakkai Joshua ben Hananiah Averroes Iggeret Teman (Epistle to Yemen)...
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    that he (Aquilas the proselyte) translated the Torah under Eliezer ben Hurcanus and Joshua ben Hananiah. The Babylonian Talmud repeats the same oral tradition...
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    circumcision ban was enacted prior to the revolt, including one from Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus, who authorized the concealment of circumcision knives in times of...
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    bar Yochai (Zoharic Aramaic: שמעון בר יוחאי, Šimʿon bar Yoḥay) or Shimon ben Yochai (Mishnaic Hebrew: שמעון בן יוחאי), also known by the acronym Rashbi...
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    Talmud mentions that a haftara was read in the presence of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus, who lived c. 70 CE, and that by the time of Rabbah bar Nahmani (the...
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    where they are found. For example, follow after Rabbi Eliezer to Lod, after Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai to Beror Ḥayil, after Rabbi Yehoshua to Peki'in...
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    convert to Judaism must undergo immersion in a mikveh. In contrast, Eliezer ben Hurcanus makes circumcision a condition for the conversion. A similar controversy...
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  • in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "AARON BEN JACOB OF KARLIN". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Retrieved...
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  • was of the second generation and a junior contemporary of Gamaliel II, Eliezer b. Hyrcanus, Joshua b. Hananiah, and Akiva. He was a kohen who traced his...
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  • also refer to: Eliezer ben Hurcanus, Tanna (sage) of 1st and 2nd century Judea Eliezer ben Jacob I, Tanna of the 1st century Eliezer ben Jacob II, Tanna...
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    their contemporaries by feigning miracles (see his presentation of Eliezer ben Hurcanus in his Allgemeine Geschischte, ii. 108). His earlier works lack to...
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  • explanation, entrusted the interpretation of His will to the Sages." Eliezer ben Hurcanus, against whom Rabbi Yehoshua cited "not in Heaven" on the case of...
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    of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Eliezer ben Hurcanus, Talmudic sage Joshua ben Levi, Talmudic sage Tamer Nafar (born 1979), rapper...
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  • whether or not this oven is susceptible to ritual impurity. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus argues that the oven is ritually pure while the other rabbis, including...
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  • generation of the Tannaic era, a contemporary of Joshua ben Hananiah and Eliezer ben Hurcanus, descending from Tribe of Benjamin. Rabbi Zadok was one...
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    sage Eliezer ben Hurcanus who declared Oven of Akhnai to be ritually pure against the majority view. According to the passage, neither Rabbi Eliezer's attempts...
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    rabbinic quotes from the aggadah literature are added, as the story of Eliezer ben Hurcanus, who discussed the Exodus all night with four other rabbis, which...
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  • daughter, Imma Shalom, married Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus, one of the greatest students of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai (Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia...
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    then Eleazar, and finally Moses, but Abba Hanan said in the name of Eliezer ben Hurcanus of Judaea that Zelophehad's daughters stood before all of them as...
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