רבי שמעון שזורי

Rabbi Shimon Shezuri was a Tanna whose opinions are preserved across a wide span of the Mishnah and Talmud, ranging from agricultural law (Sheviit, Demai) and purities (Tevul Yom, Taharot, Keritot) to Shabbat and festival law (Shabbat, Beitzah), laws of slaughter (Chullin), divorce documents (Gittin, Bava Batra), and the order of sacrifices (Menachot). The breadth of these citations marks him as a figure active in many areas of halachah.

Several of his recorded positions concern matters of measurement, mixture, and precise definition: he is cited on which liquid is reckoned “first” with regard to honey, oil and wine, and on the status of produce in which untithed tevel became mixed with ordinary food. In the laws of divorce he is remembered for extending the ruling on who may instruct that a bill of divorce be written — holding that even one who is dangerously ill (ha-mesukan) is included — a position the Talmud repeatedly weighs in Gittin and Bava Batra. In Chullin he permits the offspring of a certain animal, a ruling the Amoraim discuss in determining the law.