Rabbi Ilai I


Rabbi Ilai was a third Generation, and 2nd-century Jewish Tanna sage, father of the well-known Tanna sage, Judah ben Ilai, and disciple of Eliezer ben Hurcanus and Gamaliel II.
Rabbi Ilai is cited once in the Mishnah, and six times in the Tosefta.

Quotes

A man is known in three things: by his purse, by his drinking and by his anger.