Hoshaiah II
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Hoshaiah or Oshaya (Also spelled: Oshaia; Hebrew: אושעיא, הושעיה; died ca. 350 CE) was an amora of the 3rd and 4th generations in Rabbinic Judaism.
Biography
His colleague Hanina was his brother according to Sanhedrin 14a; see Maharsha, Ḥiddushe Agadot, ad loc. They were lineal descendants from Eli the priest, which circumstance they assigned as reason for Johanan bar Nappaha's failure to ordain them. They were shoemakers and the Talmud refers once to Hoshaiah and Hanina as rabbis in Sanhedrin 67b when dealing with the laws differentiating magic as illusion and as wizardry. Hoshaiah and his colleague produce magic while studying the Sefer Yetzirah.
Hoshaiah and Hanina are also mentioned in connection with a thermae, the ownership of which was contested by two persons, one of whom turned over the property as heqdesh (for sacred use), causing Hoshaiah, Hanina, and other rabbis to leave it according to Bava Metziah 6b.
According to the Jerusalem Talmud in Avodah Zarah 3 42c, on the day Hoshaiah died, the largest date palm in Tiberias was uprooted and fell.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Hoshaiah". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. It has the following bibliography:
- Yuḥasin. ed. Filipowski, p. 118, London, 1857;
- Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, ii.36, Warsaw, 1878;
- Frankel, Mebo, p. 75, Breslau, 1870;
- Jolles, Bet Wa'ad, p. 20a, Cracow, 1884;
- Bacher, Ag. Pal. Amor. iii.565.
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