Names of Rabbis in Pirkei Avot
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Names of Rabbis in Pirkei Avot
Compiled by Yehoshua ben Haim haYerushalmi (MKA Zachary Kessin)
© 2002-2003 Zachary Kessin
Pirkei Avot is one of 64 chpaters of the Mishna, the compilation of the Jewish Oral Law. Pirkei Avot was compiled the second century and in many Jewish communities is read on Sabbath afternoons in the spring and summer. Avot contains the saying on ethics of approximately sixty Rabbis who lived from just before the common era to about the second century.These names represent a mix of classical Hebrew and Aramaic names as well as some Greek names like Antigonus. Some of these names did enter the cannon of classical Jewish names like Hillel and other like Yehudah are directly out of the Bible.
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Antigonus Shimon haTzadick Yose Ben Yoezer Yes Ben Yochanan Yehoshua ben Perachyah Nittai of Arbel (haArbel) Yehudah ben Tabbai Shimon ben Shatach Shemayah Avtalyon Shammai Gamliel Shimon Ben Gamliel Chanania ben Akashia Yahuda haNassi The Prince Yochanan Ben Zakkai Eliezer ben Hyrkanos Yehoshua ben Chanania Yose haKohen Shimon ben Nesanel Elazar Ben Arach |
Abba Shaul Tarfon Akavia ben Mahalalel Chania ben Tradyon Nechunia ben HaKaneh Chalafta ben Dosa Elazar of Bartosa Yaakov Dotai bar Yannai Meir Chanina Ben Dosa Dosa Ben Harkinas Elazar the Meda'ite Yishmael Akiva Elazer ben Azariah Eliezer ben Chisma Ben Zoma Ben Azzai Levitas of Yavneh |
Yochanan ben Beroka Yishmael bar Yose Tzadok Yonsan Eliezer ben Yaakov Yochanan the Sandler Elazar ben Shanna Nehorai Yannai Masya ben Charash Shmuel haKattan the small Elisha ben Avuya Yose bar Yehudah Meir Elaer haKappar Yehudah ben Tema Ben Bag Bag Yehoshua ben Levi Shimon ben Yochai Yose ben Kisma |