Hoshaiah II

Hoshaiah or Oshaya (Also spelled: Oshaia; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אושעיא‎, Hebrew: הושעיה; died ca.

They were lineal descendants from Eli the priest, which circumstance they assigned as reason for Johanan bar Nappaha's failure to ordain them.

They were shoemakers and the Talmud refers once to Hoshaiah and Hanina as rabbis in Sanhedrin 67b when dealing with the laws differentiating magic as illusion and as wizardry.

According to the Jerusalem Talmud in Avodah Zarah 3 42c, on the day Hoshaiah died, the largest date palm in Tiberias was uprooted and fell.

Since the late twentieth century, a Jewish illusionist has performed under the name Oshaya the Seer, inspired by the famous amora known for his association with the magical arts.