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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...
- unharmed. The
basic story goes as follows: Four
entered the orchard: Ben
Azzai, Ben Zoma,
Acher (i.e.,
Elisha ben Avuya), and
Rabbi Akiva. One
looked and...
- 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...
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number of
commandments being 613 is not
without dissent. For example, Ben
Azzai held that
there exist 300
positive mitzvot. Also, even as the
number gained...
- orchard): Four men
entered the
pardes — Ben
Azzai, Ben Zoma,
Acher [that is, Elisha], and
Rabbi Akiva.... Ben
Azzai looked and died... Ben Zoma
looked and...
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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 Man****eh...
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converted Ben
Azzai, a "fellow student" of Akiva, to Ishmael's system, and made him
deeply regret his
failure to
study it more closely. Ben '
Azzai then exclaimed...
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fundamental principle of
Jewish ethics.
Rabbi Akiva agreed,
while Simeon ben
Azzai suggested that the
principle of love must have its
foundation in Genesis...
-
Hanina ben Hakinai, 2nd
century AD
Rabbinic sage,
contemporary of Ben '
Azzai and
Simon the
Temanite Haninah ben Teradion, 2nd
century AD
Rabbinic sage...
- 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...
