רבי אלעזר בן פרטא

Rabbi Elazar ben Perata was a tanna whose teachings appear across the Mishnah and Gemara. He was the father of Rabbi Perata and grandson of Rabbi Perata the Elder, a lineage noted when his son Perata speaks before Rabbi (Gittin 33b, Ketubot 100a) and raises the concern of “what force remains to a court” regarding the reversal of a ruling.

One of his recorded teachings concerns three cases in which a person is presumed to be alive: a city surrounded by a besieging force, a ship tossed at sea, and a man going out to be judged — rulings he stated before the Sages, who upheld his words (Gittin 28b and the Mishnah in Gittin). In the laws of reciting Hallel (Sukkah 39a, Pesachim 119b), it is taught that he adds repeated phrases, which Abaye explains as repeating from “Odecha” onward.

The Gemara in Avodah Zarah (17b) preserves the account of his arrest together with Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon, where he tells his colleague, “Fortunate are you, for you were seized on a single matter; woe is me, for I was seized on five matters.”