Biography
Rabbi Shimon is an aggadic amora whose teachings appear extensively throughout midrashic literature, including Esther Rabbah, Kohelet Rabbah, the Midrash Tanchuma sections (Yitro, Tetzaveh, Terumah, Mishpatim, Miketz, Vayera, Korach, Ki Tisa), and Vayikra Rabbah, as well as being quoted in later works such as the Akeidat Yitzchak. His statements are characteristically aggadic, drawing out moral and theological lessons from scriptural verses through parables and creative scriptural readings.
The passages preserve his teachings both in his own name and as transmitted by others. He is frequently cited by later amora generations in the search of a halacha in the gemara.
רבי סימון הוא אמורא שחי בדור השני לאמוראי ארץ ישראל, היה תלמיד של רבי יוחנן ורבי יהושע בן לוי, וחבר של רבי אלעזר ורבי זירא.
Shimon ben Pazi, also known as Rabbi Simon, was an amora of the third generation. He was a student of Johanan bar Nappaha and Joshua ben Levi. He is commonly called "Rabbi Shimon ben Pazi" in the Babylonian Talmud and "Rabbi Shimon" in the Jerusalem Talmud and midrashim. He lived in the south of the Land of Israel but also visited Tiberias, where he studied with Johanan bar Nappaha. He was the first to enumerate God's Thirteen Attributes of Mercy and the first to use the technical theological phrase tiqqun soferim "scribal correction".
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