הרב בן פטורי

Ben Petori was a tanna of the Mishnaic period. The supplied material does not preserve his own teachings directly; he is mentioned in the context of an aggadic passage cited in later literature dealing with the question of free choice and how it endures even when a person’s circumstances are tied to fate. The surrounding discussion brings the teaching of Rav Chanina bar Pappa about the angel appointed over conception, who takes the drop and presents it before the Holy One, asking what is to become of it — a meditation on Hashem’s providence over the beginning of human life.