Rabbi Ilai (Hebrew: רבי אלעאי; sometimes referred to as Ilai the Elder;[1] others: Rabbi Ilai I,[2] or Alternative Hebrew spelling: רבי עילאי [2]) 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.
A man is known in three things: by his purse, by his drinking and by his anger.[3]
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