ר' אלעזר בן חרסום

Rabbi Elazar ben Charsum served in the High Priesthood for eleven years (Yoma [9a]). He was responsible for the wealthy, as his father bequeathed to him a thousand towns and a thousand ships (and see Rabba, Lamentations, chapter 2, verse 5). Every day, a sack of flour would fall upon his shoulder, and he would go from city to city and from country to country to study Torah. Once, his servants found him and forced him to work, but he requested that they allow him to go study Torah.

They said to him, "By the life of Rabbi Elazar ben Charsum, we will not allow you." And throughout his life, he never went to see them, but rather sat and engaged in Torah all day and all night (Yoma [35b]). His mother made him a tunic worth two hundred maneh, but his brothers, the priests, did not allow him to wear it because it appeared as if he were naked (there). (He is the secret of the six of the Name, the secret of wealth, the secret of the light of the sun for the kingdom; therefore, he is called ben Charsum, as "chars" is the sun that gives light to the moon, in the secret of the collectors of charity who distribute to the poor.

"Charsum" gematria is Shaddai, which is the six of the Name that gives [light].) See Exodus 35 (see above, Hallel). He was in the generation of Antigonus. [And in Rabba, Lamentations, on the verse "HaShem has swallowed up" (Lamentations 1:2), there were none spared among all the pleasant places of Jacob, such as Rabbi Yishmael, Rabbi Gamliel, Rabbi Yeshivav, Rabbi Yehuda ben Bava, Rabbi Chutzpit, Rabbi Yehuda the baker, Rabbi Chiya ben Terdion, Rabbi Akiva, Ben Azzai, and Rabbi Elazar Charsuna].