Names of Rabbis in Pirkei Avot
Compiled by Yehoshua ben Haim haYerushalmi
(MKA Zachary Kessin)
© 2002-2003 Zachary Kessin
Pirkei Avot is one of 64 chpaters of the Mishna, the compilation of
the Jewish Oral Law. Pirkei Avot was compiled the second century and
in many Jewish communities is read on Sabbath afternoons in the spring
and summer. Avot contains the saying on ethics of approximately sixty
Rabbis who lived from just before the common era to about the second
century.
These names represent a mix of classical Hebrew and Aramaic names as
well as some Greek names like Antigonus. Some of these names
did enter the cannon of classical Jewish names like Hillel and
other like Yehudah are directly out of the Bible.
- Antigonus
- Shimon haTzadick
- Yose Ben Yoezer
- Yes Ben Yochanan
- Yehoshua ben Perachyah
- Nittai of Arbel (haArbel)
- Yehudah ben Tabbai
- Shimon ben Shatach
- Shemayah
- Avtalyon
- Shammai
- Gamliel
- Shimon Ben Gamliel
- Chanania ben Akashia
- Yahuda haNassi The Prince
- Yochanan Ben Zakkai
- Eliezer ben Hyrkanos
- Yehoshua ben Chanania
- Yose haKohen
- Shimon ben Nesanel
- Elazar Ben Arach
- Abba Shaul
- Tarfon
- Akavia ben Mahalalel
- Chania ben Tradyon
- Nechunia ben HaKaneh
- Chalafta ben Dosa
- Elazar of Bartosa
- Yaakov
- Dotai bar Yannai
- Meir
- Chanina Ben Dosa
- Dosa Ben Harkinas
- Elazar the Meda'ite
- Yishmael
- Akiva
- Elazer ben Azariah
- Eliezer ben Chisma
- Ben Zoma
- Ben Azzai
- Levitas of Yavneh
- Yochanan ben Beroka
- Yishmael bar Yose
- Tzadok
- Yonsan
- Eliezer ben Yaakov
- Yochanan the Sandler
- Elazar ben Shanna
- Nehorai
- Yannai
- Masya ben Charash
- Shmuel haKattan the small
- Elisha ben Avuya
- Yose bar Yehudah
- Meir
- Elaer haKappar
- Yehudah ben Tema
- Ben Bag Bag
- Yehoshua ben Levi
- Shimon ben Yochai
- Yose ben Kisma
Sources
Zlotwitz, Rabbi Meir , "Perkei Avot. Ethics of the
Fathers/ A New Translation with a Concise Commentary Anthologized
from the Classical Rabibinic Sources",(New York, Artscroll Mesorah
Publications , 1984).