Anani ben Sason

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Rabbinical eras

Rabbi Anani ben Sason (Hebrew: רבי ענני בר ששון; also called 'Anani, 'Inani, and 'Inyani) was a

Jewish Talmudist who lived in the Land of Israel in the third century (third generation of amoraim
).

Teachings

He was a contemporary of

Halakhah in the patriarch's mansion, without naming its author, which provoked Ammi to ask: "Is it his own? It is what Rabbi Eleazar had reported in the name of Rabbi Oshaiah".[2]

In

Chanina as saying, "That which rests highest on the priest atones for one's considering himself high"; and similarly with the rest of the priestly garments.[4]

Referring to God's appearance in the burning bush

Job in a whirlwind, as it is said[9] "The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind"".[10]

The same idea, though in different form, is found elsewhere

Johanan,[14]
while 'Anani was younger even than Johanan's pupils.

Isaac Reichlin[15] aptly suggests that Anani's real name was Ananiel, as it is still preserved in Exodus Rabbah 3:7, and that its apocopated form was adopted to avoid the mention of the name "El" (God) in common speech.

References

  1. Shabbat
     64b
  2. Moed Kattan 24b
  3. ^ Exodus 28-29
  4. ^ Zevachim 88b; Arachin 16a; compare Yerushalmi Yoma 7 44b; Leviticus Rabbah 10
  5. ^ Exodus 3:2-4
  6. Ezekiel
    8:3
  7. ^ Genesis 18:4
  8. ^ Jeremiah 23:24
  9. ^ Job 38:1, 40:6
  10. ^ Exodus Rabbah 3, where the interpretation is somewhat forced
  11. ^ Genesis Rabbah 4, Pesikta Rabbati 1:47
  12. Dikdukei Sofrim
    to Shabbat 64b, Moed Kattan 24b, Zevachim 88b
  13. ^ Compare Bacher, Ag. Pal. Amor. iii. 547, 4-5
  14. ^ Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 2 20c
  15. ^ Ha-Kerem, 1887, p. 214b

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Anani, Inani, Inyani, Ananiel b. Sason". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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