High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Eleazar ben Azariah (Hebrew: אלעזר בן עזריה ), was a 1st-century CE Palestinian tanna (Mishnaic sage). He was of the second generation and a junior contemporary of Gamaliel II, Eliezer b. Hyrcanus, and Joshua b. Hananiah, and senior of Akiba. He was a kohen and traced his pedigree for ten generations back to Ezra., and was very wealthy...