SIMEON BEN JEHOZADAK

SIMEON BEN JEHOZADAK (first half of the third century), Palestinian amora. Simeon, who came of a family of priests, was the teacher of johanan , who transmitted halakhah and aggadah in his name (Yoma 22b, et al.). His name may also be mentioned in a baraita in Sukkah 11b (see Tos. ibid.; but see also the reading on 33a there). He died in Lydda and yannai and Johanan were among those who attended his funeral (TJ, Naz. 7:1, 56a). Among his aggadic dicta are "Any scholar who does not avenge himself and retains anger like a serpent is no scholar" (Yoma 22b) and "A man should not appoint an administrator over the community unless he has a basket of reptiles suspended on his back, so that if he becomes arrogant, he can say to him: Turn around\!" (ibid.). The Talmud (Sanh. 26a) relates that he once went with Ḥiyya b. Zarnuki to intercalate the year at Asia (Ezion-Geber on the bank of the Red Sea – see Klein (ed.), Sefer ha-Yishuv (1939), S.V.). On their way they saw men working their fields in the sabbatical year. simeon b. lakish , who accompanied them, criticized these men, but Simeon b. Jehozadak justified their action. It is possible, however, that the reference is to another amora of the same name. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hyman, Toledot, S.V.; Ḥ. Albeck, Mavo la-Talmudim (1969), 161. (Yitzhak Dov Gilat)