Pedat ben Eleazar
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Pedat ben Eleazar (
Jewish Talmudist who lived in the Land of Israel in the early 4th century (4th generation of amoraim
).
Biography
He was the student of his father, Rabbi
R. Assi. 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 teachings in the name of his father[2] and of Hoshaiah II.[3]
Pedat was an intimate friend of
Deuteronomy 1:17 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'".[5] He remarks, in connection with Genesis 1:2: "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".[6]
References
- Moed Kattan20a
- Yerushalmi Yoma39d
- Sukkah54d
- Nedarim38a
- ^ Midrash Shmuel, 14
- ^ Genesis Rabbah 2
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Pedat b. Eleazar". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. It has the following bibliography:
- Bacher, Ag. Pal. Amor. iii. 617;
- Frankel, Mebo, p. 121, Breslau, 1870;
- Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, p. 312, Warsaw, 1882.