רבי אלעזר בן ערך Rabbi Elazar ben Arach
Tanna · 2nd generation (c. 80–110 CE) — named 7 times across 4 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Elazar ben Arach, of the second tannaitic generation, was one of the five students of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, and the one his teacher called a welling spring that grows ever stronger — the student who, set in the balance against all the sages of Israel, would outweigh them all.
The Talmud records that he expounded the workings of the Chariot before Rabban Yochanan, who rose and kissed him on the head. He is named seven times, in Chagigah, Chullin, Shabbat and Eruvin, and the tradition of his later years — that he parted from his colleagues and his learning left him — is told as a warning about the company a scholar keeps.
The welling spring among Rabban Yochanan's five students.
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- רבן יוחנן בן זכאיRabban Yochanan ben Zakkai
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