Hoshaiah
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Hoshaiah or Oshaya was a Palestinian amora
of the 3rd and 4th amoraic generations. It is supposed that his colleague Hanina
was his brother (Sanh. 14a; see Edels, Ḥiddushe Agadot, ad loc.). They were lineal descendants from Eli the priest, which circumstance they assigned as reason for Johanan
's failure to ordain them. For a living they plied the shoemaker's trade.
Hoshaiah and Ḥanina are mentioned in connection with a certain bath-house, the ownership of which was contested by two persons, one of whom turned over the property as "heḳdesh" (for sacred use), causing Hoshaiah, Ḥanina, and other rabbis to leave it (B. M. 6b). On the day Hoshaiah died, it is claimed, the largest date-palm in Tiberias was uprooted and fell (Yer. Ab. Zarah iii. 42c).
A different Hoshaiah or Heshaiah is also mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah
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Amora
Amoraim , 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. Their legal discussions and debates were eventually codified in the Gemara...
of the 3rd and 4th amoraic generations. It is supposed that his colleague Hanina
Hanina
R. Hanina was second and third generation Amora Sage of the Land of Israel, a pupil of Rabbi Yannai and R. Yochanan bar Nafcha , brother of the famous Amora sage R. Hoshaiah.R. Hanina was the scion of a family of great sages...
was his brother (Sanh. 14a; see Edels, Ḥiddushe Agadot, ad loc.). They were lineal descendants from Eli the priest, which circumstance they assigned as reason for Johanan
Yochanan bar Nafcha
Rabbi Yochanan ;...
's failure to ordain them. For a living they plied the shoemaker's trade.
Hoshaiah and Ḥanina are mentioned in connection with a certain bath-house, the ownership of which was contested by two persons, one of whom turned over the property as "heḳdesh" (for sacred use), causing Hoshaiah, Ḥanina, and other rabbis to leave it (B. M. 6b). On the day Hoshaiah died, it is claimed, the largest date-palm in Tiberias was uprooted and fell (Yer. Ab. Zarah iii. 42c).
A different Hoshaiah or Heshaiah is also mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah
Book of Jeremiah
The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve....
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Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
- Yuḥasin. ed. Filipowski, p. 118, London, 1857;
- Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, ii.36, Warsaw, 1878;
- Frankel, Mebo, p. 75, Breslau, 1870;
- Jolles, Bet Wa'ad, p. 20a, Cracow, 1884;
- Bacher, Ag. Pal. Amor. iii.565.