רבן שמעון בן גמליאל Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel II
Tanna · 4th generation (c. 135–170 CE) — named 817 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel II, of the fourth tannaitic generation, was nasi at Usha in the years after the Bar Kochba persecutions, when the sages who survived gathered to rebuild what had been broken. He was the son of Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh and the father of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi. Rabbi Natan sat as av beit din in his court and Rabbi Meir as chacham.
The rule a student learns with his name is that wherever Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel is taught in our Mishnah the halakha follows him, with three named exceptions — which is why his eight hundred-odd mentions weigh more than their number. He is heaviest in Bava Batra, Gittin and Shabbat. The Bavli does not mark which Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel it means; convention reads the unqualified name as the second, and this index follows it.
Nasi at Usha, father of Rebbi. The Bavli does not mark which Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel is meant; convention reads the unqualified name as the second.
- Father of
- רביRabbi Yehuda HaNasi (Rebbi)
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