BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI — BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI, two schools of exposition of the Oral Law, named after hillel and shammai who lived at the end of the first century B.C.E. and the beginning of the first century C.E. These two schools existed from the time of these… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HILLEL BEN NAPHTALI ẒEVI — (Herz; 1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi. Hillel was apparently born in Brest Litovsk, where he was a pupil of the rabbi Hirsch Darshan and, perhaps, of Heshel b. Jacob. In 1650/51 he was appointed a member of the bet din of moses b. isaac judah lima… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Hillel the Elder — Hillel (הלל) (born Babylon traditionally c.110BCE 10CE [ [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=730 letter=H Jewish Encyclopedia: Hillel] : His activity of forty years is perhaps historical; and since it began, according to a… … Wikipedia
Hillel and Shammai — were two great rabbis of the early first century. They each founded a major school of Jewish thought, respectively known as the House of Hillel and House of Shammai , and they and their schools had ongoing debates on matters of ritual practice.… … Wikipedia
HILLEL L’ANCIEN — (HILLEL L’ANCIEN 70 env. env. 10) Le plus grand des sages de la période du second Temple (le titre «l’Ancien», en hébreu zaken , désigne une personne qui occupe une charge importante), Hillel, né en Babylonie, eut pour maîtres, à Jérusalem,… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi — was a Lithuanian rabbi.He was born at Brest Litovsk in 1615; died at Zolkiev January 3 1690. After he had studied under Hirsh Darshan, Hillel went to Vilna, where from 1650 to 1651 he was a member of the rabbinical college. He stayed at Wilna… … Wikipedia
Hillel the Elder — (1st century BC–1st century AD) Sage and nasi (patriarch) from? 30 BC to AD 10. Hillel ha Zaken (The Elder) was probably born in Babylonia and rose to eminence as a rabbi in Jerusalem during the reign of Herod the Great He belonged to the… … Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
Hillel — (fl. 1st cent BCE) Palestinian rabbinic scholar. He was born in Babylonia and settled in Palestine, where he studied with Shemaiah and Avtalyon. He was later appointed president of the Sanhedrin. Together with Shammai, he was the last of the… … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
HILLEL BEN SAMUEL — (c. 1220–c. 1295), physician, talmudic scholar, and philosopher. Since it has been held that Hillel lived in Verona, he has also been called Hillel b. Samuel of Verona; but, in fact, only his grandfather lived in that city. Little is known about… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Hillel — (der Ältere oder der Alte; hebr. הלל הזקן, Hillel ha zaqen; * um 30 v. Chr.; † um 9 n. Chr.) war einer der bedeutendsten pharisäischen Rabbiner aus der Zeit vor der Zerstörung des zweiten Tempels, Vorsteher des Sanhedrin und Gründer einer Schule… … Deutsch Wikipedia
