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In Jorge Luis Borges 's story "Three Versions of Judas", the narrator mentions that Simeon ben Azzai saw the Garden of Eden and died. In Milton Steinberg 's novel As a Driven Leaf, Ben Azzai partakes in Elisha Ben Abuyah 's research project to reconcile Jewish faith with other wisdom traditions. He dies in a state of rapture during the peak of ...
Simeon ben Zoma. Simeon ben Zoma, also known as Simon ben Zoma, Shimon ben Zoma or simply Ben Zoma ( Hebrew: בן זומא ), was a tanna of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. His name is used without the title "Rabbi" because, like Ben Azzai, he died at a young age, remaining in the grade of "pupil" and never receiving semikhah (rabbinical ordination).
Shimon bar Yochai (Zoharic Aramaic: שמעון בר יוחאי, Šimʿon bar Yoḥay) or Shimon ben Yochai (Mishnaic Hebrew: שמעון בן יוחאי), [note 1] also known by the acronym Rashbi, [note 2] was a 2nd-century tanna or sage of the period of Roman Judaea and early Syria Palaestina. He was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi ...
The Talmudical Academy (TA), as it was originally called, was founded in 1916 by Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel.He had become president of the institution that was to become Yeshiva University a year earlier, in 1915, when the "Rabbinical College of America" (a short-lived name) had been formed from the merger of two older schools, an elementary school founded in 1886 and a rabbinical seminary ...
Rabbi Shimon bar Yehotzadak (I) He was a teacher of Rabbi Yochanan, [1] who quotes many laws in his name. [2] He was a kohen; when he died in Lod, his brother Yochanan visited from the Galilee. [3] R' Yochanan was present at Shimon's death. [4]
The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai is a Jewish apocalypse of the mid-eighth century about the revelations of the 2nd-century rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, also known as Rashbi. [1] It presented a Judaic messianic interpretation of the Arab conquest of the early 7th century and appears to confirm the authenticity of similar interpretations found in ...
Simeon ben Shetach, or Shimon ben Shetach [1] [2] or Shatach [3] [4] ( Hebrew: שמעון בן שטח ), circa 140-60 BCE, was a Pharisee scholar and Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reigns of Alexander Jannæus (c. 103-76 BCE) and his successor, Queen Salome Alexandra (c. 76-67 BCE), who was Simeon's sister. [5] He was therefore closely ...
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