For the fourth generation Tanna

Tannaim

The Tannaim were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years...

 sage with a similar name, see Abba Saul

Abba Saul

For the first Generation Tanna sage with a similar name, see Abba Saul ben Batnit.Abba Saul was a fourth generation Tanna . His elder contemporary was Akiva ben Joseph...

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Abba Saul ben Batnit was a Tanna

Tannaim

The Tannaim were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years...

 of the latter period of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, approximately two generations before the temple's destruction. He used to take Responsa questions from the Jewish public and answer on matters of the Halakha

Halakha

Halakha — also transliterated Halocho , or Halacha — is the collective body of Jewish law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions.Judaism classically draws no distinction in its laws between religious and ostensibly non-religious life; Jewish...

, while working as grocer. In his latter job he became known for being strict on not taking spoils and preserving a fellowman's finances, and for that reason, among others, he donated a significant amount of oil to the Jewish public, in order to revoke any suspicions about public exploitation.http://books.google.com/books?id=BS3XAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Abba+Saul+ben+Batnit%22&dq=%22Abba+Saul+ben+Batnit%22&hl=en&ei=MifzTa-cKNDqgQfoo8XUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAAhttp://books.google.com/books?id=VGERAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Abba+Saul+ben+Batnit%22&dq=%22Abba+Saul+ben+Batnit%22&hl=en&ei=MifzTa-cKNDqgQfoo8XUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQhttp://books.google.com/books?id=82TvQE7i3pIC&pg=PA204&dq=%22Abba+Saul+ben+Batnit%22&hl=en&ei=MifzTa-cKNDqgQfoo8XUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAwhttp://books.google.com/books?id=nd4eSjf3X_sC&pg=PA485&dq=%22Abba+Saul+ben+Batnit%22&hl=en&ei=MifzTa-cKNDqgQfoo8XUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA

In the Babylon

Babylon

Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...

ian Talmud

Talmud

The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism. It takes the form of a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, customs and history....

, in Tractate Pesachim

Pesahim

Pesahim is the third tractate of Seder Moed of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. It is concerned mainly with the laws of the Jewish holiday Passover as well as the Passover lamb offering...

, Abba Jose Ben Hanin cites, on Abba Saul's behalf, a saying of criticism on the families of the Kohen Gadol

Kohen Gadol

The High Priest was the chief religious official of Israelite religion and of classical Judaism from the rise of the Israelite nation until the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem...

s (Great or High priests of the holy temple), whom were identified with the Sadducees

Sadducees

The Sadducees were a sect or group of Jews that were active in Ancient Israel during the Second Temple period, starting from the second century BC through the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. The sect was identified by Josephus with the upper social and economic echelon of Judean society...

 and their familiars, and whom were in charge at this latter period of the Second Temple of Jerusalem: