Eliezer ben Hurcanus

Eliezer ben Hurcanus (or Hyrcanus) (Hebrew: אליעזר בן הורקנוס) was one of the most prominent Judean tannaitic Sages of 1st- and 2nd-century Judaism, a disciple of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai, and a colleague of Gamaliel II (whose sister, Ima Shalom, he married) and Joshua ben Hananiah. He is the sixth most frequently mentioned Sage in the Mishnah.

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