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Hillel the Elder

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Hebrew

William Davidson Edition - Vocalized Aramaic · sefaria.hillel.sukkah-28a-5-4c6d93507f.he.2026-09-15

תָּנוּ רַבָּנַן: שְׁמוֹנִים תַּלְמִידִים הָיוּ לוֹ לְהִלֵּל הַזָּקֵן. שְׁלֹשִׁים מֵהֶן רְאוּיִם שֶׁתִּשְׁרֶה עֲלֵיהֶן שְׁכִינָה כְּמֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ, וּשְׁלֹשִׁים מֵהֶן רְאוּיִם שֶׁתַּעֲמוֹד לָהֶם חַמָּה כִּיהוֹשֻׁעַ בִּן נוּן. עֶשְׂרִים בֵּינוֹנִים. גָּדוֹל שֶׁבְּכוּלָּן - יוֹנָתָן בֶּן עוּזִּיאֵל, קָטָן שֶׁבְּכוּלָּן - רַבָּן יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי.

English

William Davidson Edition - English · sefaria.hillel.sukkah-28a-5-4c6d93507f.en.2026-09-15

The Gemara continues to praise the Sages. The Sages taught: Hillel the Elder had eighty students. Thirty of them were sufficiently worthy that the Divine Presence should rest upon them as it did upon Moses our teacher, and thirty of them were sufficiently worthy that the sun should stand still for them as it did for Joshua bin Nun, and twenty were on an intermediate level between the other two. The greatest of all the students was Yonatan ben Uzziel, and the youngest of them was Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-15

La Guemara continue de faire l’éloge des Sages. Les Sages ont enseigné : Hillel l’Ancien avait quatre-vingts disciples. Trente d’entre eux étaient suffisamment dignes pour que la Présence divine repose sur eux comme elle reposa sur Moïse notre maître, et trente étaient suffisamment dignes pour que le soleil s’immobilise pour eux comme il le fit pour Josué fils de Noun, tandis que vingt occupaient un degré intermédiaire entre les deux autres groupes. Le plus grand de tous les disciples était Yonatan ben Uzziel, et le plus jeune d’entre eux était Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai.

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