רבי ישמעאל Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha
Tanna · 2nd generation (c. 80–110 CE) — named 938 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha, of the second tannaitic generation, is the master of the thirteen rules by which the Torah is expounded — the baraita recited at the opening of the morning prayers. The school of Rabbi Yishmael, whose midrash on Shemot and Bamidbar survives in the Mechilta and Sifrei, stands beside the school of Rabbi Akiva through the whole of the halakhic midrash.
His governing principle is that the Torah speaks in the language of human beings, so that a doubled word or an ordinary turn of phrase need not be expounded — exactly where Rabbi Akiva would expound it. That disagreement is one of the two or three arguments a student must know in order to read a derivation at all. He is named some nine hundred times, most heavily where laws are derived: Chullin, Zevachim, Sanhedrin and Bava Kamma.
Of the thirteen hermeneutic rules; the Torah speaks in human language.
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