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[Yochanan] Ben Bag Bag
Talmudic Figures
Ben Bag Bag was an early scholar who was considered to be very learned.
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Ben Bag Bag said: Turn it over, and [again] turn it over, for all is therein. And look into it; And become gray and old therein; And do not move away from it, for you have no better portion than it.
Pirkei Avot 5:22
2) "You shall not steal": (Even if only) to taunt the owner, (thinking to return the theft afterwards). "You shall not steal": (Even to benefit the owner,) thinking to pay (kefel) double (the amount of what you have stolen) or to pay "four and five" (times the amount of what you have stolen.) Ben Bag Bag says: Do not steal what is yours from behind the thief, so that you yourself not appear to be a thief, (but claim the object from him to his face).
Sifra, Kedoshim, Section 2 2
TURN IT OVER AND OVER, ETC.
Rav
:
the Torah
.
Midrash Shmuel
writes in the name of
Rabbenu Ephraim
that because Torah is something that people greatly need, Ben Bag Bag said his dictum in Aramaic, which everyone knew upon their return from Babylon. Hillel did so as well, in the mishna of “and he who does not learn” (1:13).
Maharal
writes in
Derech Chaim
that they were converts and they thus spoke Aramaic. He also writes that because the Torah was not given to the angels and they cannot receive reward for performing commandments…
Tosafot Yom Tov on Pirkei Avot 5:22:2
Come
and
hear
a proof from a
baraita
:
And Yoḥanan ben Bag Bag already sent
a message
to Rabbi Yehuda ben Beteira in
the city of
Netzivin: I heard about you that you say
that
the daughter of a non-priest betrothed
to a priest
may partake of
teruma
.
Rabbi Yehuda ben Beteira
sent
back this reply
to him: And do you not say so? I know about you that you are an expert in
many
areas of Torah; do you not know how to teach
halakhot
based on an
a fortiori
inference?
Kiddushin 10b:4
Lived
תקופת פעילות
Tannaim - First Generation
c.20 – c.40 CE
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לקריאה נוספת
Jewish Encyclopedia
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