Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer is an aggadic-midrashic work on the Torah containing exegesis and retellings of biblical stories.
The sun rides in a chariot and rises crowned as a bridegroom. Eliezer
Cover design of book "Pirke Rabbi Eliezer". Yemen, 1876
Title page of a Sabbioneta edition of Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer.
Text from Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer in Hebrew.
Eliezer ben Hurcanus or Hyrcanus was one of the most prominent Sages (tannaim) of the 1st and 2nd centuries in Judea, disciple of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai and colleague of Gamaliel II, and of Joshua ben Hananiah. He is the sixth most frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah.
Text from Pirke De Rabbi Eliezer in Hebrew.
Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus' memorial in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Tiberias carries the epitaph, "He said, 'Let the honor of your fellow be as dear to you as your own'" (Avot 2:10).