person · P0083
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korcha רבי יהושע בן קרחה
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korcha was a senior tannaitic authority active when Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi was young. His rulings range from civil evidence and mediation to post-Temple calendar procedure. Later rabbinic tradition remembers his exceptional longevity; the common identification of "ben Korcha" as Rabbi Akiva's son is not explicit in early sources.
I. Who
- Hebrew
- רבי יהושע בן קרחה
- Also known as
- Joshua ben Korha, Yehoshua ben Korchah
- Era
- tannaim
- Generation
- T4
- Students
- Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi
- Colleagues
- Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel II
II. When
- Traditional
- c. 3860–3970 AM, from the post-Hadrianic generation into Rabbi's youth
- Academic
- fl. mid-to-late 2nd century CE.
- Lifespan (traditional)
- ≈110 years
- Precision
- approximate
V. How do we know
| Claim | Evidence | Confidence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korcha held that it is a mitzvah to mediate a dispute, deriving the ideal from the command to execute a judgment of truth and peace.
Directly stated in the cited source. |
rabbinic | ★★★★★ | |
| In civil testimony he allowed separate witnesses who saw different components of a monetary event to be combined, a position discussed in Sanhedrin.
The cited source supports this summary; minor wording or identification details are interpretive.
|
rabbinic | ★★★★☆ | |
| He transmitted that Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai instituted that new-moon witnesses go to the fixed meeting place of the court even if the court's head was elsewhere.
Directly stated in the cited source. |
rabbinic | ★★★★★ | |
| Bava Metzia portrays Yehoshua ben Korcha and Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel as leading elders before whom the young Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi and Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi Shimon studied.
The cited source supports this summary; minor wording or identification details are interpretive.
|
rabbinic | ★★★★☆ | |
| Was remembered for exceptional longevity, prompting Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi to ask him by what merit he had lived so long.
The source establishes the longevity tradition but gives no numerical age.
|
rabbinic tradition | ★★★★☆ | |
| Near his death, Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi asked him for a blessing; Rabbi Yehoshua wished that Rabbi would reach half of his own lifespan.
Deathbed narrative without a stated location. |
rabbinic tradition | ★★★★☆ | |
| The traditional placement c. 3860–3970 AM, from the post-Hadrianic generation into Rabbi's youth, is a schematic Mesorah Atlas reconstruction from his portrayal as a senior sage before the young Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi; the cited sources do not state an absolute AM range.
The cited sources establish relative chronology or regnal duration; they do not state the absolute AM range.
|
tradition reconstruction | ★☆☆☆☆ |