257:. Legend relates many miracles performed by the dead rabbi, one of which was that litigants plead their cases in the rabbi's house, and the verdict was pronounced from the mortuary chamber. After many years his former colleagues resolved to bury him, but a new difficulty arose. The inhabitants of Akbara (variant: Gush Halav), believing that the sage's remains miraculously protected them against incursions of wild beasts, refused permission to remove the body. Ultimately, however, in compliance with the request of the rabbis, people from the nearby town of
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deliver the people of God to the hangman?" Eleazar, however, continued in office, justifying himself by saying, "I only weed out thistles from the vineyard." His mentor answered that the weeding ought to be left to the proprietor of the vineyard—that is, that God
Himself would visit punishment on the idlers and evildoers.
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Eleazar and his wife seem to have reunited by the time of his death. As
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Later in life he regretted the part he had taken under the hated government, and is said to have imposed on himself the most painful penance. His wife even divorced him because the financial cost of caring for his ailments was draining her family wealth, though after this
Eleazar was able to support
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Though wanted in his youth by the Roman government, later on
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Due to his varied learning, his surviving colleagues cited the
Scriptural verse "Who is it that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?" and answered, "It is Eleazar ben Simon, who united in himself all noble
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954:Eleazar ben Judah of Bartota
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565:Hamburger, R. B. T. ii. 159;
682:Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen
370:Benjamin De Tudèle (1841).
168:R. Eleazar son of R. Shimon
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16:2nd-century Judean rabbi
707:Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim
547:The Jewish Encyclopedia
454:(Pesiqata Derav Kahana)
1096:Judah haNasi (Judah I)
995:Simeon ben Gamaliel II
677:Shimon ben Gamliel (I)
223:Simeon ben Gamaliel II
180:Eleazar beRabbi Shimon
672:Gamaliel I, the Elder
445:Pesikta de-Rav Kahana
210:He was the son of R.
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1131:Symmachus ben Joseph
1080:Eliezer ben Jacob II
884:Hanina ben Antigonus
859:Eleazar ben Perata I
854:Haninah ben Teradion
793:Akabia ben Mahalalel
763:Eliezer ben Hurcanus
712:Abba Saul ben Batnit
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518:Shir Hashirim Rabbah
1075:Hananiah ben Akavia
1035:Eleazar ben Shammua
974:Abba Jose ben Hanan
969:Simeon the Yemenite
839:Eleazar ben Azariah
773:Nehunya ben HaKanah
758:Joshua ben Hananiah
732:Eliezer ben Jacob I
692:Jonathan ben Uzziel
616:Last Generation of
542:"Eleazar ben Simon"
484:(reprinted in 1980)
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1176:Abba Kohen Bardela
1161:Simeon ben Menasya
1121:Simeon ben Eleazar
1116:Eleazar ben Simeon
1010:Shimon ben Halafta
964:Hanan the Egyptian
959:Matteya ben Heresh
939:Jeshbab the Scribe
914:Eleazar of Modi'im
889:Hanina ben Hakinai
864:Johanan ben Baroka
687:Yohanan ben Zakkai
184:רבי אלעזר בן שמעון
164:Eleazar ben Shimon
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1060:Johanan HaSandlar
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988:Fourth Generation
949:Johanan ben Torta
904:Elisha ben Abuyah
894:Yochanan ben Nuri
844:Jose the Galilean
768:Eleazar ben Arach
746:Second Generation
727:Judah ben Bathyra
722:Dosa ben Harkinas
656:Simeon ben Hillel
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283:Shimon bar Yochai
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160:Eleazar b. Shimon
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819:Rabbi Akiva
788:Rabbi Zadok
753:Gamaliel II
431:Baba Metzia
310:Shabbat 33b
1191:Categories
1101:Huna Kamma
1022:(and wife
1020:Rabbi Meir
290:References
267:his father
255:Gush Halav
1055:Abba Saul
929:Abtolemus
618:Zugot Era
474:cite book
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206:Biography
121:Acharonim
62:July 2024
46:summarize
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919:Halafta
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631:Shammai
609:Tannaim
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178:, lit.
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192:Shimon
172:Hebrew
111:Geonim
84:Chazal
717:Admon
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259:Birya
244:Death
196:Tanna
182:, or
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