Johanan HaSandlar

R. Johanan ha - Sandelar (also: Hassandelar or Hassandlar = " the sandal-maker ," but possibly also derived from his hometown of Alexandria ) was a Jewish scholar of the ancient world, is counted among the Tannaim of the third generation and worked in the second century AD.

He was a student of Rabbi Akiba and proud to have maintained with this intensive handling. Was Rabbi Akiva during the Hadrianic persecution of religion locked in prison and you wanted to have his counsel in a Chaliza - matter ( in-law marriage), Yohanan said to have disguised himself as a peddler and proclaimed under Akiba's prison window: " Who wants to buy needles, who wants to buy hooks, how about a Chaliza, which took place in private? " Then Akiba is recognized the voice of his disciple and have this shouted the decision.

The number of traditional of Johanan Halachot is low, not known Aggadisches from him.