Rabbi Meir

Rabbi Meir

male
Rabbi Meir or Reb Meir Ba'al Ha-Nes (lit. "Rabbi Meir Master of the Miracle") was a famous Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Talmud. He was...
Akiba ben Joseph

Akiba ben Joseph

male, deceased (135)
Akiba ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא) or simply Rabbi Akiva was a Judean tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd centu...
Shimon Bar Yochai

Shimon Bar Yochai

male
Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai, Shimon son of Yohai, Simon son of Yohai or Rashbi, was a famous rabbi who lived in the era of the Tannaim (scholars of the...
Rabbi Nathan

Rabbi Nathan

male
Rabbi Nathan was a Palestinian tanna of the third generation (2nd century), the son of a Babylonian exilarch. For unknown reasons he left...
Hillel The Elder

Hillel The Elder

male
Hillel (הלל) was a famous Jewish religious leader who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod, Augustus, and probably Jesus; he is one of...

Shimon ben Gamliel

male
Shimon ben Gamliel (in) (lived circa 10 BCE to 70 CE) was a Tannaist sage and leader of the Jewish people. He succeeded his father Gamliel I as the...

Ishmael ben Elisha

male, deceased (135)
Ishmael ben Elisha was a Tanna of the first and second centuries (third tannaitic generation). A Tanna ("plural", Tannaim) is a Jewish rabbinic...
Elisha ben Abuyah

Elisha ben Abuyah

male
Elisha ben Abuyah was a rabbi and Jewish religious authority born in Jerusalem sometime before 70 CE. After he adopted a worldview considered...

Joshua ben Hananiah

male
Joshua ben Hananiah was a leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Temple. He was of Levitical descent (Ma'as. Sh....

Eliezer ben Jose

male
Eliezer ben Jose (Heb. "Eliezer ben Yose ha-Gelili") was a Jewish rabbi who lived in Judea in the second century. He was the son of Jose the...