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When the time came to start teaching Torah, Rabbi Yochanan decided to move from Tzippori to Tiberias, so as not to show disrespect to great rabbis in Tzippori who did not have their own centers of Torah study.
He was considered, however, the greatest rabbi in the Land of Israel, and was even esteemed in the other center of Torah Jewry, Babylonia — so much so that after the deaths of Rav and Shmuel in Babylonia, Rabbi Yochanan was considered by Babylonian Jews as the greatest rabbi of the generation.
He started a school in Tiberias, and let anybody in if they wanted to learn, a controversial move at the time.
He laid the foundations for the Yerushalmi ( Jerusalem Talmud ).
He sites many traditions relating to the destruction of the Second Temple.
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