His name was Elisha ben ("son of") Abuya. He’s been called “the Jewish Faust”; and when the 19th-century writer Max Letteris translated Goethe's Faust into Hebrew, he gave his adaptation the title "Ben Abuya." The ancient rabbis of the Talmud, who spoke with fascinated horror of their colleague … [Read more...]
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