Eleazar ha-Kappar

Eleazar ha-Kappar (Hebrew: אלעזר הקפר) was a Jewish rabbi of the fifth and last generation of the tannaim.

[1] He is cited infrequently in the Mishnah, but more often in the Talmud and works of midrash, on both halachic and aggadic topics.

In a mosque in Dabbura in the central Golan Heights, a lintel was discovered decorated with two birds of prey, holding nosegay in their beaks.

The lintel bears the inscription: זה בית מדרשו שהלרבי אליעזר הקפר This is the beth midrash [house of learning] of Rabbi Eliezer ha-Kappar.

)This is the only archaeological finding from the era of the Tannaim in which the term "beit midrash" appears.