Me'asha

Me'asha was the name of three important rabbis of the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods.


 * 1) Me'asha, tanna to whom one reference occurs in the Mishnah (Peah 2:6), from which it appears that he lived in the time of Hillel's descendants (compare Heilprin, "Seder ha-Dorot," ii.).
 * 2) Me'asha ben Joseph (?), an aggadist and mystic who died in the time of Rabbi Ammi
 * 3) Me'asha (amora), an amora in the Land of Israel of the fourth century CE