Shimon ben Lakish (Hebrew: שמעון בן לקיש; Imperial Aramaic: שמעון בר לקישShim‘on bar Lakish or bar Lakisha), better known by his nickname Reish Lakish (c. 200 — c. 275), was an amora who lived in the Roman province of Judaea in the third century. He was reputedly born in Bosra, east of the Jordan River, around 200 CE, but lived most of his life in Sepphoris.[1] Nothing is known of his ancestry except his father's name.
He is something of an anomaly among the giants of Torah study as, according to the Babylonian Talmud, he was in his early youth a bandit and a gladiator.
He was regarded as one of the most prominent amoraim of the second generation, the other being his brother-in-law and halakhic opponent, Johanan bar Nappaha.
ShimonbenLakish (Hebrew: שמעון בן לקיש; Imperial Aramaic: שמעון בר לקיש Shim‘on bar Lakish or bar Lakisha), better known by his nickname Reish Lakish...
Among the earliest Amoraim in Israel were Johanan bar Nappaha and ShimonbenLakish. Traditionally, the Amoraic period is reckoned as seven or eight generations...
support offered to him by Judah. Yochanan also induced Judah to visit ShimonbenLakish, who had fled from Tiberias in consequence of having made offensive...
Gershon (d. 1344); David Kimhi (1160); Saadia ben Joseph (892–942); ShimonbenLakish (230–270), David Joris (1501-1556), Lelio Sozzini (1525-1562), Fausto...
tractates of the Order is given in the Talmud itself (Shabbat 31a), by ShimonbenLakish, who homiletically states that the first of the six terms in a verse...
Gabriel takes the form of a man, and stands at the left hand of God. ShimonbenLakish (Syria Palaestina, 3rd century) concluded that the angelic names of...
Hell, p. 64 Chananel; et al. (2003), Hut ha-meshulash, p. 183, Rabbi ShimonbenLakish as well as his colleague Rabbi Yannai said that there is no such thing...
proto-deacon and bishop of Bosra Beryllus of Bostra, 3rd century, Bishop ShimonbenLakish, 3rd century, amora of the second generation and rabbi Titus of Bostra...
death of ShimonbenLakish, Eleazar was chosen to fill the position of assistant to Johanan. When Johanan became disabled through grief at Shimon's death...
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...
(180–279) Bar Kappara ShimonbenLakish, Amora in Judea (c.200–c.275) Joshua ben Levi (early 3rd century), headed the school of Lod. Samuel ben Nahman Shila of...
name, and ShimonbenLakish asked him a question of halacha. Efes did not survive Judah ha-Nasi by many years. He was succeeded by Hanina ben Hama. Genesis...
city of Lod. He was an elder contemporary of Johanan bar Nappaha and Resh Lakish, who presided over the school in Tiberias. With Johanan bar Nappaha, he...
Arikha and Samuel of Nehardea on one side, and Yochanan bar Nafcha and ShimonbenLakish on the other, regarding in what type of situations a tinok shenishba...
However, he himself was not resigned at the death of his brother-in-law ShimonbenLakish, his fellow amora, whom he affectionately called "my counterpart"...
explained in the Midrash: Yehuda bar Nahmani began in the name of ShimonbenLakish: "Elohim ascends amidst shouting, YHWH to the blast of the shofar"...
assertion that reciting the Shema in bed keeps demons away. Rabbi ShimonbenLakish reasoned from Deuteronomy 32:24 that Torah study keeps away painful...
believed to house the tombs of Rabbi Yohanan from Kasion and Rabbi ShimonBenLakish. Qision's ruins were first discovered in 1860 by Ernest Renan. The...
Israel where he studied under Hanina and Joshua ben Levi. He may also have been influenced by ShimonbenLakish. Hiyya was also a student of Johanan bar Nappaha...
rest. What would be lacking if he were buried elsewhere? Rabbi ShimonbenLakish (Resh Lakish) explained in the name of Bar Kappara that Israel is the land...
to the Land of Israel he studied with R. Yochanan bar Nafcha and ShimonbenLakish, and submitted to them rulings by Rav. Even with Yochanan bar Nafcha...
15:26 that Torah study keeps away painful sufferings. Rabbi ShimonbenLakish (Resh Lakish) deduced that painful sufferings keep away from one who studies...
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