Abba Arika Abba Hoshaya
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li. licnjamiii. ami soinctiiiics us b. Minyomi or MiiiHence lie yoiniii (a dialectic t'onii of Benjamin).
should not be confounded with the Abba bar Minyomi who is identical with Abba b. Martlia. The Babyhiuian Tabnud, in (|Uolin.i;- liin. generally adds that of his j^randsire I.Iiyya (Hul. HOn; lie may also lie recojrnized by the character of the traditions cited in Ids behalf, which usually refer to Barailot. to his
Yeb.
name
1-,>',V/),
and
Seder
K.M'iiv: wnprtn. BiBi. I'lll.Aniur. 1. 117.
Ita-rMiriil.
li.
17; Baelier, ^ly.
S.
ABBA
BIZNA
B.
foiiiili cenltiiy, whn is baii^adist. and as liavini; banded lakic opinions (Yer. B. K. v. 5<0.
liMiuoGKAPnY:
Anwr.
I'al.
M.
A Palestinian amora of the oeeasionally nieiitioiied as a down
Hellprin, Serfci'/ia-Donif,
II.
17
certain ha-
liaclitr, .Itf.
UI. B47.
W.
B.
ABBA BUMSLA (BEN SOLOMON). See (I'llN/.l.Al. liollKMIA) ABBA OF CARTHAGE: A I'alestinian amora,
I5rl>l,.
who
.l:l-..
.
end
lloinisliril at the
nl
Armenia. He is freciuently mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud and in the haii^adic traditions. liacluM-. .ly. I'al. Amnr. I!Mii.ii>r,K.4rnv Fmnki-I, Milm. p. lavi
11.
-MS.
W.
BARDELA
ABBA COHEN
B.
A scholar of OF the la-t laniiaitic iiciicniliun lulmut the bei;inninj; of the third century). The few llalakot emanating from him refer to the rabbinical civil law. In Biblical homiletics several of his expositions have been preserved (Sifre, Dent. 3; Gen. H. 2:i. 7(i, 93). The to lust .mentioned passage runs as follows: mankind, becaus<! of the day of judgment; wo, bcciiusc of the day of trial! Balaam, the wisest among the Gentiles, was confounded at the reiuoof of his Jose|ili, one of Ihe youngest of a.ss (Num. x.ii. HO). Jacob's sons, silenced his elder brethren (Gen. xlv. How will man be able to endure the jiidgnu'iit 8). of the omniscient LordV" (B. JI. 10'/; Yer. Git. viii. 49c; Yer. B. M. i. lil: Y<r. B. B. viii. 16/)).
"Wo
S.
ABBA DORESH "The
oi
HA-DORESH
that is. tanna. whose of his interpre-
period can not be determined.
Two
have been ])reserved in 8.V,J, and refer to Deut. xxxii. spectively (see also Kx. H. -i'i).
Sifre,
tjilions
BlBl.incK.ipnv: Bnclicr,
.li;.
Tuii.
II.
."i
M.
and
Dent.
- i08
and
xxxiii. 11, re-
547.
W.
ABBA (RABBA) BAR DUDAI
1
liurning of the "Glusker niaggid's " books, and that Klijah, the gaon of Wilna. saved bini from the mob. Kayserling lliiidis iluil Abba (;iu>k Leczeka is a poetical presentation of Solomon Maimon's real adventures, but S. Stanislavski (in " Voskhod," 1887, No. 12) contends that he is the Gi.l'sivEK Maggid. BiBLiocu.vi'HV
Cliaiiilssfi'9
B.
ad of the about 780. 1,
Academy of Pnndu'dita from 7Tv till Sherira ijaon ailds to Ablia's name Ihe words "our gnindfalher." which, however, are not meant to indicate that Dndai was an immediate ancestor of Sherira. A copyist's atlemi>t to change the rare adds to the confusion n;inie " Duilai " into " Jndai fi.r.lu<hii (hion, Ihe aclual grandfather of Sherira, lived a full cenlnry later than Dudai. "
.Uii/iinvif
In
NoubauiT'»
L. G.
ABBA GLUSK LECZEKA: von
A poem by Adal
hami^so. piddisjicd in ls:t2. It relates the story of one Abba. who. at Ihe age of sixty, atlraeled by Ihe fame of Moses Meiidelssohu.weut to licrl
(
SW
ed.
Max
el »«/.
Kocli, pp. 271-i7S Kayserling, .U".<m
imi. II.
ABBA GORION OF SIDON llouiisluil
tlie sii-iind
ill
(
to posterity a .saying of
A
tanna,
R.
who
He banded down
rntiiry.
Abba Saul (Mishnah,
Kid.
Yerushalmi version) and one of Habban Gamaliel II. That of Gamaliel, quoted in the iniv.
14.
Esther H.. Ini-ms the bi'ginning to a on the Bookof Kslber, for which reason the called Miilrash -Vbba Gorion (.see MlDRASn).
trcpiliiclion to
.Miilrash
latter
is
B1UL10GHAPUV
BaclHT, Ail. Tiui.
Ifci,
I.
11. .3«.s.
AV.
ABBA HANIN
and his son,
See Uam.n.'Aiui.v, and
.losi:,
ABBA BAR HIYYA
ABBA
B.
JOSE.
.Vhua.
B.
ABBA: A
Palesthe beginning of He was the .son of Hiyya bar the fourth century. Abba, the well-known juipil of Johanan. and transmitted to his generation the sayings of Johanan, whi<'h in their turn had bivn delivered to him liy He was on terms his father (Yer. Sotah. ix. 24<). of intimate friendship with Zeira (Hul. 864). tinian
anioia.
BinLionRAPnv:
Amtn:
who'
llninislinl al
Fraukel, Melio,
p.
n'a; Baelier,
Ag. Pal.
lll.(H8.
W.
ABBA HOSHAYA
Yeshaya) OF tinian
B.
(called also Oshaya, or Pales: of Ibe third century, of whose
TURYA,
wnol washer
TRAYA
A
scholarly attainments, if be bad iiny, nothing is recorded, but whose piety and honesty alTorded the haggadists op]iortnnities for legends and religious He is said to have been born on the speculations. dav of a certain Kabbi .Vliun's dialh; and. with reference to this circumslance, B. Abba I). ICahana observes: "What particular wisdom is slnnvn in Solomon's sjiying (Keel. i. h). "The sun rises, aiul Do we not see the alternation of the sun sets.' The sjiying refers to a light and darkness daily peculiarity in the history of Israel; uamely, that there is liever a vacancy "in the lino of pious men: the sun of one saini rises before the sun of another before Habbi Abun died. Abba sets. Thus Hoshava had been born" (Gen. H. Iviii. 2; Keel. Coiupaiv Zunz. "G. V.," 2d ed., 18.'i; " Bet I{. i. .V Talmud." iv, 12-11). Il is related that Abba Ho';
.
Firitl hitlirnf Shiiirii ilwni. Jen: CItrim. I. .1tl.
lliiu.icii.KAI'llv
WcrHe,
Hn-KtnmeU
1S72, No. ."), pp. Meiiilctiotohii. p. 431, Lelpslc,
A
Inlcrpreter of Scripture"):
lation of C'hamisso's ])oeni is given, it is stated that SeligSaikind in his childhood witnesseil the
.losliua
His
the third centUry.
was Carlhajre, and it is incorrect to refer surname to Cartasena in Sjiain or to a town of
birthplace his
Berlin to acquire secular knowledge. In his native town, Glusk, Abba was ])ersecuted by the fanatical reiiresentatives of the orthodox Jewish community for his liberal views. He had to leave the town, and traveled from place to place as a wandering When he came to Wilna, he preacher (inaggid). iiad thirteen w<)rks ready for luiblication, but on accouni of their radical tendencies they were burned Probably he in the courtyard of the synagogue. himself would have fared badl_v had not a rabbi come to his assistance. In au article published in "Ha-Karmel," 1873, No. 5, where a Hebrew trans-
.
.
shaya once fomnl some jewels which a lioman prinHe brought them to lu>r. but she cess had lost. would not a«'Ce]>l them, remarking that she did not value them much, and that they lielonged to him by
