Eleazar ben Zadok II

R. Eleasar ben Zadok II. (Also: Eleazar ; also: Tsadoq ) was a Tannaite (Jewish scholar of antiquity) and worked at the end of the first / beginning of the second century AD.

During the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70, he and his father were saved by R. Jochanan ben Sakkai .

Later he was a student of R. Gamaliel II and handed down his Halachot .

He also reported on the dramatic events during the temple's destruction, the customs previously practiced during the existence of the temple, and the customs common in Jabne .

Eleazar left many disciples behind who passed on his own halachot. His saying is particularly well-known: "Do things [of the Torah] for the sake of their creator, speak of them for their own sake, do not make them a crown to brag about, nor use them as an ax to chop with" ( Nedarim 62 a).

Eleazar ben Zadok II was the grandson of Eleazar ben Zadok I.

literature

• Zacharias Frankel , Hodegetica , Leipzig 1859
• Weiss , dor dor ... , 1871 ff.
• Jakob Brüll , Mewo hamischna , 1876 ff.
• Bacher , The Agada of the Tannaites , 1884 ff.
• Aaron Hyman , Toldoth Tannaim we-Amoraim , London 1910
• Wilhelm Bacher, Tradition and Tradenten ... , 1914
• Abraham Zacuto , Sefer hajuchassin , Frankfurt edition 1924
• Samuel Atlas, Article ELEASAR ben ZADOK II. , In: Jüdisches Lexikon , Berlin 1927, Volume II.
• Strack / Stemberger , Introduction to Talmud and Midrash , 7th edition, Beck, Munich 1982