Simeon ben Azzai information

Simeon ben Azzai or simply Ben Azzai (Hebrew: שמעון בן עזאי) was a distinguished tanna of the first third of the 2nd century. Ben Azzai is sometimes called...

like Ben Azzai, he died at a young age, remaining in the grade of "pupil" and never receiving semikhah (rabbinical ordination). Ben Zoma and Ben Azzai are...

favor of Yahweh in Isaiah 62. It is related in the Talmud that Rabbi Simeon ben Azzai found in Jerusalem an account wherein it was written that King Manasseh...

Other classical sages who hold this view include Rabbi Simeon ben Azzai and Rabbi Eleazar ben Yose the Galilean. It is quoted in Midrash Exodus Rabbah...

Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs concluding like the tradition of Rabbi Simeon ben Azzai that they are holy. Akiva stoutly defended, however, the canonicity...

fundamental principle of Jewish ethics. Rabbi Akiva agreed, while Simeon ben Azzai suggested that the principle of love must have its foundation in Genesis...

the prophets (who were, he thinks, unmarried), and to Simeon ben Azzai: They said to ben Azzai: There is a type of scholar who expounds well and fulfills...

studied the secret doctrine mentions, besides Akiva, Simeon ben Azzai, Simeon ben Zoma, and Elisha ben Abuyah. The fate of the last-named, who was driven...

Jose ben Halafta, Rabbi Tarfon, or Elazar ben Ḥarsum [he] are listed in place of Elazar ben Shamua, Simeon ben Azzai is listed in place of Hanina ben Hakinai...

ben Elisha, whose dialectic system, as opposed to that of Rabbi Akiva, they acquired. It is even reported that Jonathan all but converted Ben Azzai,...

which Biblical verse expresses the fundamental principle of the Law, Simeon ben Azzai maintained — against Rabbi Akiva, who (following Hillel the Elder)...

Hanina ben Hakinai or Hanania ben Hakinai (Hebrew: חנינא בן חכינאי) was a Tanna of the 2nd century; contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simeon the Yemenite...

eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof." Rabbi Simeon ben Azzai taught that Scripture says of a large ox, "An offering made by fire...

three Simeons who were considered among the great "students" of the generation before the Bar Kokhba Revolt, the other two being Ben Azzai and Ben Zoma...

Gnosticism. The example of his colleagues and friends, Elisha ben Abuyah, Ben Azzai, and Ben Zoma strengthened him still more in his conviction of the necessity...

Judah to show humility to their father). Eliezer ben Matiah, Hananiah ben Kinai, Simeon ben Azzai, and Simeon the Yemenite deduced from Judah's offer to remain...

mystic remarks concerning God and the 390 heavens. Section 3, called "Ben Azzai" by the ancients, contains some moral reflections on the origin and destiny...

refers to an opinion of R. Akiva's, and to disagreements between Akiva and Ben Azzai and between Akiva and the sages, it may be concluded that he was a pupil...

 'orchard'): Four men entered pardes—Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher (Elisha ben Abuyah), and Akiba. Ben Azzai looked and died; Ben Zoma looked and went mad; Acher...

fundamental commandment of the Jewish doctrine (compare to Great Commandment). Ben Azzai, in reference to this, said that a still greater principle was found in...

then God would lay up for them a good reward in the World to Come. And Ben Azzai taught that the performance of one commandment leads to the performance...

whoever spills blood diminishes the Divine image. Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah and Ben Azzai both said that whoever does not have children diminishes the Divine...

nakedness." Ben Azzai said, "until the one reproved rebukes" because 1 Samuel 20:30 says: "Then Saul's anger was kindled." The Gemara asked how Ben Azzai, who...