Rabbi Ilai II

R. Hela ( name variants in the two Talmuds: Ela, Ila'a, Leja, Jela ) was an amora of the third generation in Palestine and lived and worked around the turn of the century from the third to the fourth century AD.

He was next to Zera I. the most important scholars at the beginning of the 4th century. in Tiberias and was called by this because of his exegetical ingenuity "Builder of the doctrine of the law ."

Particularly well known is his haggadischer saying that a person's character most clearly " bekosso bekisso ubeka'asso " ( German: the glass, ie, consuming alcohol, in money matters and the wrath ) show ( Babyl. Eruwin 65 b).

Hela was a teacher Abins I., Jonas and Joseph.