=Eliezer Kapsali=, Rabbanite teacher of Karaites, =4=, 270.
=Eliezer.= _See also under_ Eleazar and Eleazer.
=Elijah=, the Tishbite, prophet, character of, =1=, 199. a Nazarite, =1=, 200. disciples of, =1=, 200. rebukes Ahab, =1=, 202-3. announces a famine, =1=, 203. assembles the priests of Baal, =1=, 203-4. flees from Jezebel, =1=, 204. instructed to anoint Jehu, =1=, 204. chooses Elisha as his successor, =1=, 207. prophesies the death of Ahaziah, =1=, 207. disappears, =1=, 207. result of the activity of, =1=, 208. precursor of the Messiah, =2=, 143. in the Zohar, =4=, 12, 16.
=Elijah, disciples of=, Nazarites, =1=, 200. persecuted by Jezebel, =1=, 201. saved by Obadiah, =1=, 201. on Mount Carmel, =1=, 203.
=Elijah Wilna= (1720-1797), draws attention to the Scriptures, =5=, 329, 390. disinterestedness of, =5=, 389. critical powers of, =5=, 389-90. simple exegetical method of, =5=, 390. fondness of, for the Kabbala, =5=, 390-1. slandered by the Chassidim, =5=, 391. excommunicates the Chassidim, =5=, 392, 393. persecutes the Chassidim, =5=, 394.
=Elijah Zevi=, brother of Sabbataï, =5=, 145.
=Elionai=, high priest, under Agrippa I, =2=, 198.
=Elisha=, Essene, punished for the use of Tephillin, =2=, 424.
=Elisha=, prophet, successor to Elijah, =1=, 207. accompanies Elijah, =1=, 208. lives on Mount Carmel, =1=, 208. hates Jehoram, =1=, 208-9. disciple of, appoints Jehu king of Israel, =1=, 210. position of, compared with Elijah’s, =1=, 217-18. in Samaria, =1=, 218. respected by Jehoash of Israel, =1=, 223-4. influence of, on Jehoash, =1=, 225.
=Elisha ben Abuya= (Acher), teacher of the Law, apostate, =2=, 358, 377. theosophist, =2=, 381. assists Hadrian in persecuting the Law, =2=, 426. and Meïr, =2=, 437. daughters of, =2=, 452.
=Elisha Gallaico=, member of Karo’s rabbinical college, =4=, 616.
=Elishama=, keeper of the lists, favors submission to Nebuchadnezzar, =1=, 305.
=Elizabeth=, of Brunswick, has Templo’s work translated, =5=, 114-15.
=Elizabeth=, of England, and Maria Nuñes, =4=, 664.
=Elkanah Kapsali=, of Candia, ransoms Spanish exiles, =4=, 364.
=Elulai=, king of Tyre, subdued by Shalmaneser, =1=, 263.
=Elymæans=, the, have a synagogue in Jerusalem, =2=, 201.
=Elymais=, falls to Nabopolassar, =1=, 303.