Eleazar ben Pedat

Eleazar ben Pedat ( ) was a Jewish Talmudist , known as an amora , in the Land of Israel , of the 4th generation (first half of the 4th century). He was his father's pupil ( Ber. 77b; M. Ḳ. 20a) and the assistant lecturer ("amora") of R. If the latter asked him to repeat any of his father's sentences, if he himself had heard them from the lips of his father, he introduced them with the words: "So says my teacher in the name of my father", but in other cases he said: "So says my teacher in the name of R. Eleazar." He transmitted also sentences in the name of his father ( Yer. Pedat was an intimate friend of Ze'era and Jeremiah ben Eleazar , who transmitted halakic sentences of his ( Yer. Several of his haggadic interpretations have been preserved, including the following: " Deut. i. 17 does not indicate presumption on the part of Moses . On the contrary, he means to say: 'Bring difficult questions to me: I will decide them, if I can; if I can not, I will hear them and lay them before God for his decision'" ( Midr. He remarks, in connection with Gen. i. 2: "It is a law of nature that the air moves on the surface of the water, even when the sun is shining with its greatest heat" ( Gen.

Eleazar ben Pedat ( ) was a Jewish Talmudist , known as an amora , in the Land of Israel , of the 4th generation (first half of the 4th century). He was his father's pupil ( Ber. 77b; M. Ḳ. 20a) and the assistant lecturer ("amora") of R. If the latter asked him to repeat any of his father's sentences, if he himself had heard them from the lips of his father, he introduced them with the words: "So says my teacher in the name of my father", but in other cases he said: "So says my teacher in the name of R. Eleazar." He transmitted also sentences in the name of his father ( Yer. Pedat was an intimate friend of Ze'era and Jeremiah ben Eleazar , who transmitted halakic sentences of his ( Yer. Several of his haggadic interpretations have been preserved, including the following: " Deut. i. 17 does not indicate presumption on the part of Moses . On the contrary, he means to say: 'Bring difficult questions to me: I will decide them, if I can; if I can not, I will hear them and lay them before God for his decision'" ( Midrash Shmuel , xiv.). He remarks, in connection with Gen. i. 2: "It is a law of nature that the air moves on the surface of the water, even when the sun is shining with its greatest heat" ( Gen.

3rd-century Jewish scholar from Babylon Not to be confused with Eleazar ben Shammua . Eleazar ben Pedat ( ) was a second and third-generation amora or Talmudist from Babylon who lived in Syria Palaestina during the 3rd century. He became a scholar at the Talmudic academy at Tiberias , where he was held in great esteem and served as head master, becoming known as "master [i.e., legal authority] of the land of Israel". Pedat, a 3rd century Babylonian emigre to Palestine Feldman, L. Hebrew Union College Annual . 63 : 39– 81. Eleazar ben Pedat, the third century scholar who lived in both Palestine and Babylonia Neusner, J. ; Avery-Peck, A. Judaism in Late Antiquity . It disapproves either of specific individuals (Yohanan, Resh Laqish, and Eleazar ben Pedat) or of Palestinian Amoraim in general Schechter, S.; Mendelsohn, S.