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
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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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