Eleazar HaModai
Also known as The aggadist of Modi'in
50 CE–135 CE · Tannaim · Modi'in
A second-generation Tanna (late 1st–early 2nd century CE) and a celebrated aggadic exegete, so esteemed that Rabban Gamliel II often deferred to his interpretations. He taught in Modi'in and, according to tradition, died during the Bar Kokhba revolt at the besieged fortress of Betar.
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Modi'inמודיעיןJudea
What they did here
Lived and taught in Modi'in in Judea; a contemporary of Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabbi Eliezer. By tradition he perished during the fall of Betar in the Bar Kokhba revolt (135 CE).
About Modi'in
Modi'in was a town in the Judean foothills, the ancestral home of the Hasmonean (Maccabee) family, from which the revolt against Seleucid rule was launched in the second century BCE. In the Talmudic period it is associated with the tanna Rabbi Elazar of Modi'in (Elazar HaModa'i). The modern Israeli city of Modi'in is named for it.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Eleazar HaModai’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Shmuel HaKatan· 30 CE–110 CE
- Yose HaKohen· 30 CE–100 CE
- Onkelos· 35 CE–120 CE
- Josephus· 37 CE–100 CE
- Yehoshua ben Chananya· 40 CE–131 CE
- Eliezer ben Hyrcanus (Eliezer HaGadol)· 40 CE–120 CE
- Eleazar ben Arach· 40 CE–110 CE
- Rabbi Akiva ben Yosef· 50 CE–135 CE
- Yehuda ben Beteira· 50 CE–135 CE
- Tarfon· 50 CE–130 CE
- Nachum Ish Gam Zu (Nachum 'Also-For-Good')· 50 CE–130 CE
- Rabban Gamliel II of Yavneh· 50 CE–117 CE
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· 60 CE–130 CE
- Chananyah ben Akashya· 60 CE–130 CE
- Yishmael ben Elisha· 60 CE–135 CE
- Chanina ben Teradion· 60 CE–135 CE
- Yochanan ben Nuri· 60 CE–140 CE
- Yose HaGalili· 60 CE–140 CE
- Elisha ben Avuya (Acher)· 70 CE–135 CE
- Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma· 70 CE–135 CE
- Eleazar ben Chisma· 70 CE–140 CE
- Rabbi Yehudah ben Bava· 75 CE–135 CE
- Shimon ben Azzai· 90 CE–135 CE
- Shimon ben Zoma· 90 CE–135 CE
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