Shmuel ha-Katan

Samuel the Small ( Shmuel ha - katan; * after 90 ) was a Jewish scholar of the ancient world and was one of the early Tannaim (2nd generation).

Life and career

He formulated before Gamaliel II, but on his behalf, the birkat ha - minim (insertion of "Please against the detractors of Israel " in the Shemoneh Esrei ).

He taught and learned in the spirit of Hillel (but can no longer, as it is claimed to have been his personal student) who was a younger contemporary of Gamaliel II the name " the little one " to explain some of his oversized modesty and humility, others because he to to have been a little less than Samuel the prophet.

Little Samuel motto were the words ( Abot 4:24; cf. Proverbs 24.17 to 18 ):

In addition, by Samuel the Little, a comparison between the eyeball of humans and the world handed down (ben Aba by Issi Johanan Derech Eretz Suta 9):