Johanan ben Nuri

R. Yochanan ben Nuri was praised for his piety Jewish scholar of antiquity. He looked around the year 100 and was part of the so-called second generation of the Tannaim.

He was together with R. Eleazar Chisma overseer in the teaching house of Gamaliel II and was closely related to R. Chalafta, whose son Jose R. R. Johanan various reports of visits with his father.

Yohanan pursued a moderate, especially extremes averse interpretation of the law that took place on the reality of life consideration ( Babyl. Shabbat 26a; Gittin 89 a).

Accordingly, he declared ( Babyl. Shabbat 105b ): "He who tears his clothes in anger, vessels breaks or tosses his money, let him be in your eyes an idolater same. "

From Yohanan - as of Eleazar Chisma - it was said that their knowledge was so great that they could almost put the number of drops in the ocean ( Sifre Deut 16; bab Horajot 10 a. . ).

In Avot de - Rabbi Nathan is mentioned that whoever seen in a dream Yochanan ben Nuri, could hope to be a man who fears sin ( ch. 40).