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Bar Kappara

Shimon Bar Kappara was a Jew

Jew

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ish rabbi

Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
of the late second and early third century CE, during the period between the tannaim

Mishnah

The Mishnah or Mishna is a major work of Rabbinic literature, and the first major redaction into written form of Jewish oral traditions, called the Oral Torah....
and amoraim

Amora

Amora , were renowned Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and the Land of Israel....
. He was active in Caesarea in the Land of Israel

Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
, from around 180 to 220 CE. His name, meaning “Son of Kapparah”, was taken from his father, Elazar Ha-Kappar. He was one of the students of the Rabbi

Judah haNasi

Rabbi Judah haNasi, , also known as "Rabbi" and "Rabeinu HaKadosh" , was a key leader of the Jewish community of Judea toward the end of the 2nd century CE, during the occupation by the Roman Empire....
, and a Amora

Amora

Amora , were renowned Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and the Land of Israel....
of the first generation.

He was a talented poet and storyteller, and it is said that at the wedding feast of Simeon, the son of Rabbi, he kept the guests captivated with fables until their food got cold.

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Shimon Bar Kappara was a Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish rabbi

Rabbi

Mishnah

The Mishnah or Mishna is a major work of Rabbinic literature, and the first major redaction into written form of Jewish oral traditions, called the Oral Torah....
and amoraim

Amora

Land of Israel

Judah haNasi

Amora

Jerusalem Talmud

The Jerusalem Talmud or Talmud Yerushalmi , often the Yerushalmi for short, is a collection of rabbi notes about the Jewish Oral law as detailed in the 2nd-century Mishnah....
contains a prayer he wrote and included in the repetition of the 18th section of Thanksgiving in the Amidah

Amidah

The Amidah , also called the Shmona Esre , is the central prayer of the Siddur. As Judaism's prayer par excellence, the Amidah is often designated simply as tfila in Rabbinic literature....
. However, his satirical wit

Satire

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic arts and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improv...
(he once ridiculed the son-in-law of Rabbi by telling him to ask Rabbi a riddle that really was an insulting criticism of Rabbi’s household), lost him the chance to be ordained

Ordination

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.

He was unusual in his time for recommending the study of Greek

Greek language

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, which was commonly rejected as the language of the heathens. He is reported as saying to his disciples (Gen. R.

Genesis Rabba

Genesis Rabba is a religious text from Judaism's classical period. It is a midrash comprising a collection of ancient rabbi homiletical interpretations of the book of Genesis ....
36:8): “Let the words of Torah

Torah

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be said in the language of Japheth [Greece].” He also encouraged the study of the natural sciences, saying “Whosoever can calculate the movements of the solstices and planets, but fails to do so, to him is applied the verse ‘But they regard not the works of the Lord’." (Shabbat 75a) (Isaiah

Isaiah

Isaiah is the main figure in the Biblical Book of Isaiah, and is traditionally considered to be its author. He was an 8th-century Before Christ Judean prophet who declared that all the world belonged to God and that God will destroy it....
5:12)