Nachum Ish Gamzu

Nachum from Gimso (also: Nachum from Gimzo, Hebrew נחום איש גמזו, Nachum Ish Gamzu ) was a supposedly excellent by special piety Jewish scholar of the ancient world and was among the Tannaim of the first generation. He lived and worked in the 2nd century AD. Much more than that, what ` anit at two places in the Babylonian Talmud in Tractate Ta ( bTaanit 21a) and in the treatise Chagiga ( Chag. 12a) is reported, you do not know about him.

For the explanation of his epithet, there are two theories, he could either go back to its origin from the city Gimso in the southwestern Judea or on its motto gam su le- towa ( " this too is for the good "; Nachum should always have uttered these words, soon as he heard of any adversity, negative circumstances and hardship or was himself affected, and he was also Isch gam below, called " the man with the gam -su - saying" to read but possibly also take גמזו גמ זו = Gimso, so "Man from Gimso ").

Haggadisch is by Nachum a series of alleged miracles reported ( bTaanit 21a). Because not aufzuklärender possibilities of confusion Nachum with an alleged Nehemiah Imssoni ( consonant alternation of Gimel to Ayin Nehemiah Nebenform to Nachum -. Jer Ber IX 14b.. ) But many questions remain open about his life.

Springs / Literature (selection )

• Bacher, Agada of the Tannaim, 1884 ff
• Aaron Hyman, Toldoth Tannaim we- amoraim, Vol III. , London 1910
• Samuel Atlas, articles Nachum from Gimso, in: Jewish Encyclopedia, Berlin 1927, Vol IV / 1
• Hermann L. Strack and Günter Stemberger, Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash, 7th edition, Beck, Munich 1982