רבי יהושע Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya
Tanna · 2nd generation (c. 80–110 CE) — named 726 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya, of the second tannaitic generation, was a levite who had sung on the Temple steps before the destruction and afterwards earned his living by the work of his hands; the Talmud tells of the soot-blackened walls of his house. He was one of the five students of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, and Rabbi Akiva learned from him.
Through the Mishnah he is the steady foil of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, and it is his voice, in the oven of Akhnai, that answers the heavenly voice with the words the Torah is not in heaven. He is the sage the Talmud sends to answer Caesar and the elders of Athens, and he is the one who submitted to Rabban Gamliel's calendar ruling with his staff and his money bag in hand on the day he had reckoned as Yom Kippur, so that the authority of the court would not be broken. Some seven hundred mentions, heaviest in Pesachim.
The levite singer who answered Caesar; foil to Rabbi Eliezer.
- Studied under
- רבן יוחנן בן זכאיRabban Yochanan ben Zakkai
- Taught
- רבי עקיבאRabbi Akiva
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