רבי אליעזר Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
Tanna · 2nd generation (c. 80–110 CE) — named 1,288 times across 38 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus — Rabbi Eliezer the Great — of the second tannaitic generation, came to learning late and against his father's will, and his teacher Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai called him a plastered cistern that loses not a drop: what he had received he never let go, and he would say nothing he had not heard from his teachers. Rabbi Akiva learned from him.
He is the fixed disputant of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya through the Mishnah, and the story of the oven of Akhnai is his — the day the walls of the study house leaned in his favour and a voice came from heaven, and Rabbi Yehoshua answered that the Torah is not in heaven, and the sages ruled against him and put him under a ban. It is the passage the tradition returns to whenever it asks how the law is decided.
The plastered cistern that loses not a drop; the oven of Akhnai is his.
- Studied under
- רבן יוחנן בן זכאיRabban Yochanan ben Zakkai
- Taught
- רבי עקיבאRabbi Akiva
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