Eliezer ben Jacob II (Hebrew: אליעזר בן יעקב) was a Tanna of the 2nd century.
He is mentioned among Rabbi Akiva's younger disciples who survived the fall of Bethar and the subsequent Hadrianic persecutions, including Judah bar Ilai, Rabbi Meir, Shimon bar Yochai, Eliezer ben Jose.
[2] He was the founder of a school known in the Talmud after his name, "Debei R. Eliezer b. Jacob", which sometimes opposed the "Debe R.
From Deuteronomy 22:5 he concludes that a woman must never handle arms or go to war, and that man must not use ornaments which women usually wear.
The distinction thus conferred on the visitor by so eminent a man induced the people thereafter bounteously to provide for the needy one, who, when he realized the cause of his good fortune, thanked its author.