- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
fundamental principle of
Jewish ethics.
Rabbi Akiva agreed,
while Simeon ben
Azzai suggested that the
principle of love must have its
foundation in Genesis...
-
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 his...
-
Hanina ben Hakinai, 2nd
century AD
Rabbinic sage,
contemporary of Ben '
Azzai and
Simon the
Temanite Haninah ben Teradion, 2nd
century AD
Rabbinic sage...
- 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...
-
called Bithiah Four
Rabbis Visited Heaven. Four
entered the orchard: Ben
Azzai, Ben Zoma,
Acher (i.e.,
Elisha ben Avuya), and
Rabbi Akiva. One
looked and...