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Hanina ben Dosa (1st century, CE ) ( ) was a scholar and miracle-worker, and the pupil of Johanan ben Zakkai ( Berakhot , 34b).1He is buried in the City of Arraba .2While he is reckoned among the Tannaim and is quoted in connection with a school and its disciples, no halachot and but few aggadot are preserved as from him (Baraita of R. He is "remembered more for his conduct than for his halakhic teachings. There are no laws quoted in his name." His popularity, however, which he enjoyed throughout his life, and which rendered him immortal among the mystics, rests not on his scholarship, but on his saintliness and thaumaturgic powers. From the several maxims attributed to him it may be seen that he was a member of the ancient Hasidim : "Whosoever's fear of sin precedes his wisdom, his wisdom will endure; but where wisdom precedes fear of sin, wisdom will not endure"; "Where a man's works are greater than his learning, his learning will stand; but where his learning is greater than his works, his learning will not stand"; "Whosoever earns the good-will of humanity is loved of God; but whoso is not beloved of man is not beloved of God" ( Avoth , iii. 9, 10; Avot of Rabbi Natan , xxii. 1 [ed. There are, also, other teachings which betray his Hasidic schooling. Hanina, like all the ancient Hasidim, prayed much, and by his prayers he is said to have effected many miracles.3
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Hanina Ben Dosa (1st century, CE ) was a scholar and miracle-worker, and the pupil of Johanan ben Zakkai ( Berakhot , 34b). While he is reckoned among the Tannaim and is quoted in connection with a school and its disciples, no halachot and but few aggadot are preserved as from him (Baraita of R. His popularity, however, which he enjoyed throughout his life, and which rendered him immortal among the mystics, rests not on his scholarship, but on his saintliness and thaumaturgic powers. From the several maxims attributed to him it may be seen that he was a member of the ancient Hasidim : "Whosoever's fear of sin precedes his learning, his learning will endure; but where learning precedes fear of sin, learning will not endure"; "Where a man's works are greater than his learning, his learning will stand; but where his learning is greater than his works, his learning will not stand"; "Whosoever earns the good-will of humanity is loved of God; but whoso is not beloved of man is not beloved of God" ( Avoth , iii. 9, 10; Avot of Rabbi Natan , xxii. 1 [ed. There are, also, other teachings which betray his Hasidic schooling. Hanina, like all the ancient Hasidim, prayed much, and by his prayers he is said to have effected many miracles.
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Hanina ben Dosa ( ) was a first-century Jewish scholar and miracle-worker and the pupil of Johanan ben Zakai .He is buried in the town of Arraba in northern Israel .
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Hanina ben Dosa ( ) was a first-century Jewish scholar and miracle-worker and the pupil of Yohanan ben Zakkai . He is buried in the town of Arraba in the Lower Galilee (now in Israel ).Commentary of Solomon Sirilio who wrote: "ʻArav, the name of a place in the Land of Israel, near Sepphoris , and Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa is interred there, and they call it (the place) Arraba ." Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa - Graves of the righteous
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Hanina ben Dosa ( Hebrew : חנינא בן דוסא ) was a Jewish sage , miracle worker , and student of Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai during the early or middle first and second centuries CE.He is buried in the town of Arraba, Israel , in the Lower Galilee . Commentary of Solomon Sirilio , who wrote: "ʻArav, the name of a place in the Land of Israel, near Sepphoris , and Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa is interred there, and they call it (the place) Arraba ." Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa - Graves of the righteous
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