ריש לקיש Reish Lakish (Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish)
Amora of the Land of Israel · 2nd generation (c. 250–290 CE) — named 1,417 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Reish Lakish — Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish — of the second amoraic generation in Eretz Yisrael, is the disputant without whom Rabbi Yochanan cannot be read. The tradition tells that he had left the study house for the arena and the roads, and that Rabbi Yochanan drew him back with the promise of his sister in marriage; Reish Lakish returned to learning and became the sharpest questioner of his generation.
He is quoted some seventy-five times through others and is named beside Rabbi Yochanan more than beside anyone else; their disagreement is the frame of most of what Eretz Yisrael contributes to the Bavli. He taught that a man does not sin unless a spirit of folly enters him, and that the world endures on the breath of schoolchildren. His death, and Rabbi Yochanan's grief at losing the man who had raised twenty-four objections to every word he said, is among the passages every learner remembers.
Rabbi Yochanan's brother-in-law and disputant; a gladiator who returned.
- Studied under
- רבי יוחנןRabbi Yochanan bar Nappacha
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