Rabbi Zadok
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Rabbi Zadok (
Hebrew: רבי צדוק) was a Tanna of the second generation of the Tannaic era, a contemporary of Joshua ben Hananiah and Eliezer ben Hurcanus, descending from Tribe of Benjamin.[1]
Rabbi Zadok was one of the notable Tannaim of his generation, and his opinion on many matters is often cited in the Talmud.
Forty years before the destruction of the
Johanan ben Zakai had only three requests from Vespasian, and one of them was to give him medicine measures to heal Rabbi Zadok.[3] The Mishnah
in tractate Gittin elaborates on the ways Rabbi Zadok was healed.
His son was Rabbi
Eleazar Bar Zadok
.
References
- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Taanit 12a
- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin, 56a
- Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Gittin, 56b
External links
- ZADOK, jewishencyclopedia.com; Article (#3)
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