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אנטיגנוס איש סוכו

Entry 603 • Seder Tannaim v'Amoraim

Antigonus of Sokho [(Mishnah, Perek 1 of Avot)] received from Shimon the Just and said: "Do not be like servants who serve their master for the sake of receiving a reward." And the students, Tzedok and Baitus, erred and became the heads of sects, and they served all their days with gold and silver vessels [(See Adar'an, concerning all the deeds of Tzedok and Baitus. And see Rambam, Perek 1 of Avot, and Rashbam, commentary on the Mishnah, and see what is written in the Sefer Chasidim, Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 10).

And he brought firstborn from Babylon, and they did not accept from him a substitution (Kohanim 21:1). And see Netai of Tekoa. Rabbi Elazar ben Charsom was the High Priest in his generation (see there)]. His pious students were Yosef ben Yoezer and Yosef ben Yochanan.

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