The Sages of the Talmud

רבי ישמעאל בן קמחית Rabbi Yishmael ben Kimchit

Tanna · 1st generation (c. 10–80 CE) — named 4 times across 1 tractate of the Bavli.

Tanna · 1st generation×4 named in the Bavli1 tractate

Rabbi Yishmael ben Kimchit, of the first tannaitic generation, was one of the sons of Kimchit who served in the High Priesthood in the last years of the Temple — seven of them, the tradition says. When the sages asked their mother what merit had brought this to her house, she answered that the beams of her house had never seen the hair of her head.

All four of his mentions fall in Yoma, among the accounts of the service and of the High Priests who performed it.

Of the seven sons of Kimchit who served as High Priest.

The gematria of the name

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