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Eleazar Chisma (Ḥisma; , "Eleazar Chasma ", or אלעזר בן חסמא , " Eleazar ben Chasma ") was a tanna of the second and third generations (second century); he was a disciple of Joshua ben Hananiah and Gamaliel II .1"Ḥisma," is not an adjectival cognomen (see Eleazar I.), but a locative, the place probably being identical with Hizmeh (see Luncz, "Jerusalem," vi. 67; Selbie, J. In James Hastings (ed.). A Dictionary of the Bible . I. pp. page 208. : |pages= has extra text ( help ) ; Cite has empty unknown parameters: |accessyear= , |accessmonth= , |month= , and |coauthors= ( help ) ; hence "ben Ḥisma" means "son of [= "native of"] Ḥisma" (compare R. Several halakot are preserved under Eleazar's name in the Mishnah (Ter. iii. 5; B. M. vii. 5), and he is met with in halakic controversies with Eleazar ben Azariah and Akiba (Neg. vii. 2; Sifra, Tazria', i. 2), and with Eliezer ben Jacob I (Pes. 32a; Yalḳ., Lev. 638); and to him is ascribed the economic rule that the employee is not entitled to a proportion of his employer's produce greater than the amount of his wages (B.2
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Eleazar Chisma (Ḥisma; , "Eleazar Chasma ", or אלעזר בן חסמא , " Eleazar ben Chasma ") was a tanna (sage) of the second and third generations (2nd century); he was a disciple of Joshua ben Hananiah and Gamaliel II .
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He was a disciple of Joshua ben Hananiah and Gamaliel II . Ḥagigah 3a; Horayot 10a
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Eleazar Chisma (Ḥisma; Hebrew : אלעזר חסמא , "Eleazar Chasma ", or אלעזר בן חסמא , " Eleazar ben Chasma ") was a tanna (sage) of the second and third generations (2nd century). He was a disciple of Joshua ben Hananiah and Gamaliel II . Ḥagigah 3a; Horayot 10a
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