Eliezer ben Hurcanus

Eliezer ben Hurcanus or Hyrcanus (Hebrew: אליעזר בן הורקנוס) was one of the most prominent Sages (tannaim) of the 1st and 2nd centuries in Judea, disciple of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai and colleague of Gamaliel II (whose sister Ima Shalom he married), and of Joshua ben Hananiah. He is the sixth most frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah.

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