YOSE HA-KOHEN

YOSE HA-KOHEN
YOSE HA-KOHEN (end of the first century C.E.), tanna. Yose, a pupil of johanan b. zakkai , was known for his piety and his teacher designated him a "ḥasid" (one of exceptional piety; Avot 2:8). It is related of him that he never sent a letter through a gentile lest he forward it on the Sabbath (Shab. 19a). His piety is also discernible in his apothegm: "Fit yourself to study Torah for it will not come to you as a heritage; and let all your actions be for the sake of heaven" (Avot 2:12). In answer to the question as to "the good way to which a man should cleave" Yose ha-Kohen answered that a man should maintain good neighborly relations (Avot. 2:9). Like most of the ḥasidim of the Talmud Yose was not conspicuous in his teaching and very little is known about it (Eduy. 8:2). Yose plays a significant role in the later amoraic versions of the stories concerning early tannaitic involvement in the study of merkabah mysticism , along with Simeon ben Nethanel (TJ, Ḥag. 2:1, 77a), or according to another tradition with joshua b. hananiah (TB, Ḥag. 14b). These traditions, however, probably do not preserve authentic historical information about Yose himself or his historical period. Some identify Yose ha-Kohen with Yose Kittunta, of whom it is said that when he died, piety ceased (Sot. 9:15). On the other hand it is certain that he is not to be identified with the Joseph ha-Kohen mentioned in several places (Mik. 10:1; et al.) without the title "Rabbi." -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hyman, Toledot, 740–1. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: S. Wald, "The Mystical Discourse of Eleazar ben Arakh," in: JSIJ (2006). (Israel Moses Ta-Shma / Stephen G. Wald (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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