Eleazar ben Shammua

R. Eleazar ben Shammua (also: Eleazar ben Shammua always simply called in the Mishnah and Baraita R. Eleazar, not to be confused with Eleazar Eleazar ben = Pedat ) was a teacher of the law as highly valued Tannait the third, according to others the fourth generation, the priestly tribe belonging ( from wealthy family), born at Alexandria, and lived and worked in the second century AD.

He visited his teacher Akiba in prison, then went - how many others were forced during the Hadrianic religious persecutions to leave his home - with Yochanan ha - Sandelar after Nisibis, to study under Jehuda ben Batyra.

He received his ordination not by Akiba, but only after his death by R. Judah ben Baba. Eleazar ben Shammua is at different points of the bab. Talmud referred to as "excellent most of the scholars ." He should also have been politically active for his people, including through intervention in Rome.

He reached (which saw itself causes a very high age, which he attributed to among others the credit that he had never used the synagogue as a passage was always present either before the students in the teaching at home so as not to annoy by his passing, the students already attending would have to rise from their seats ), or, if he was late but, stood behind the students.

Eleazar ben Shammua had so many students that they are often " had to make do with a yard of space of the schoolhouse " only ( Babyl. Eruwin 53 a), and teachers of Jude Hannasi which Eleazar has been called " the most important of the Elders " designated.

Eleazar is also counted among the " ten martyrs ".

From its tenets is that in PA IV, 12 quoted become best known: " The honor of your student be to thee as expensive as your own, the honor of your friend as the reverence for your teacher and the reverence for your teacher as the fear of God! "