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Simeon ben Azzai or simply Ben Azzai (Hebrew: שמעון בן עזאי) was a distinguished tanna of the first third of the 2nd century. Ben Azzai is sometimes called...

like Ben Azzai, he died at a young age, remaining in the grade of "pupil" and never receiving semikhah (rabbinical ordination). Ben Zoma and Ben Azzai are...

men entered the pardes — Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher [that is, Elisha], and Rabbi Akiva.... Ben Azzai looked and died... Ben Zoma looked and was harmed...

basic story goes as follows: Four entered the orchard: Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher (i.e., Elisha ben Avuya), and Rabbi Akiva. One looked and died. One looked...

he eventually forgot, and was reminded of them by Abba Saul ben Batnit. Simon ben Azzai, Rabbi Akiva's contemporary, relates that he had discovered a...

prophets (who were, he thinks, unmarried), and to Simeon ben Azzai: They said to ben Azzai: There is a type of scholar who expounds well and fulfills...

Hanina ben Hakinai or Hanania ben Hakinai (Hebrew: חנינא בן חכינאי) was a Tanna of the 2nd century; contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simeon the Yemenite...

Gnosticism. The example of his colleagues and friends, Elisha ben Abuyah, Ben Azzai, and Ben Zoma strengthened him still more in his conviction of the necessity...

Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs concluding like the tradition of Rabbi Simeon ben Azzai that they are holy. Akiva stoutly defended, however, the canonicity of...

Other classical sages who hold this view include Rabbi Simeon ben Azzai and Rabbi Eleazar ben Yose the Galilean. It is quoted in Midrash Exodus Rabbah 33:7...

Judah ben Bathyra and Jonathan Hanina ben Hakinai, 2nd century AD Rabbinic sage, contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simon the Temanite Haninah ben Teradion...

nakedness." Ben Azzai said, "until the one reproved rebukes" because 1 Samuel 20:30 says: "Then Saul's anger was kindled." The Gemara asked how Ben Azzai, who...

contain the great principle of the Law ("Kelal gadol ba-Torah"), and Ben Azzai, who pointed to Gen. v. 1 ("This is the book of the generations of Adam;...

ben Elisha, whose dialectic system, as opposed to that of Rabbi Akiva, they acquired. It is even reported that Jonathan all but converted Ben Azzai,...

(especially Sephardic ones) but also includes some sages (such as ben Zoma and ben Azzai) who were never formally ordained. It is also the primary title...

Jose ben Halafta, Rabbi Tarfon, or Elazar ben Ḥarsum [he] are listed in place of Elazar ben Shamua, Simeon ben Azzai is listed in place of Hanina ben Hakinai...

fundamental principle of Jewish ethics. Rabbi Akiva agreed, while Simeon ben Azzai suggested that the principle of love must have its foundation in Genesis...

descended "whole". The other three were broken, one way or another: Ben Azzai dies soon after; Ben Zoma is presented as going insane; and worst of all, "Akher"...

of Yahweh in Isaiah 62. It is related in the Talmud that Rabbi Simeon ben Azzai found in Jerusalem an account wherein it was written that King Manasseh...

daughter did similarly with Ben Azzai". This refers to a daughter of Akiva and Rachel who was married to the Tanna Ben Azzai. The Talmud then records these...