Hutzpit the Interpreter
Hutzpit the Interpreter was a rabbi from the third generation of tannaim.Description
He is described as one of the Ten Martyrs in the Midrash Eleh Ezkerah.
His title comes from his position as the interpreter of Rabban Gamaliel II: Gamaliel would speak softly, and Hutzpit would announce Gamaliel's words to the listeners.
A footnote in the Artscroll Yom Kippur Machzor says that he was murdered by the Romans "one day short of his 130th birthday."History
At one point he lived in Tzippori and had contact with rabbis Eleazar ben Azariah, Jeshbab the Scribe, Halafta, and Johanan ben Nuri.
