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ben and Zakkai

A classical rabbinic work, Avoth de-Rabbi Natan, states
: " One time, when Rabban Yochanan
ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehosua, they arrived at where
the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins
.
" Then Rabbi Yohannan
ben Zakkai spoke to him these words of comfort
: " Be not grieved, my son
.

Yohanan
ben Zakkai,
a leading Pharisee, was appointed
the first Patriarch (
the Hebrew word, Nasi, also means prince, or president ),
and he reestablished
the Sanhedrin at Yavneh (
see the related Council of Jamnia ) under Pharisee control
.
He learned with him until he died, at which point he moved to Yavneh to study at
the feet of
ben Zakkai, as well as Gamliel II HaNasi (
the Prince ),
and Yehoshua
ben Chananya
.

Johanan
ben Zakkai established
that the shofar trumpets be blown at Jamnia
and the surrounding places even if
the festival fell on
the Sabbath, while at one time this was done only in
the Temple ( iv
. 1 ); he also fixed
the lulav outside of
the Temple
for seven days,
and forbade
the eating of new grain on
the second day of Passover ( iv
. 2 ); he extended
the time
for examining witnesses until
the evening,
and had them come to Jamnia even in
the absence of
the av bet din ( iv
. 3 ).

Ordinances of Johanan
ben Zakkai concerning Rosh ha-Shanah
and the Sabbath,
and other matters

The Tosefta omits
the ordinances of Gamliel
and of Johanan
ben Zakkai,
and the dispute of
the two leaders of
the school-house, nor does it mention anything of
the power of any tannaitic dignitary ;
the Tosefta
is here
a product of
the time of
the Amoraim
.

The list of
the exilarchs down to
the end of
the 9th century
is given as follows in an old document
" Mediæval Jewish Chronicles ," i
. 196
: " Bostanai, Hanina
ben Adoi, Hasdai I, Solomon, Isaac Iskawi I, Judah
Zakkai ( Babawai ), Moses, Isaac Iskawi II, David
ben Judah, Hasdai II
.

Judah
Zakkai, who
is called
" Zakkai ben Ahunai
" by Sherira, had as rival candidate Natronai
ben Habibai, who, however, was defeated
and sent West in banishment ; this Natronai was
a great scholar,
and, according to tradition, while in Spain wrote
the Talmud from memory
.

After
a short interregnum
' Ukba's nephew, David
ben Zakkai, became exilarch ; but he had to contend
for nearly two years with Kohen Zedek before he was finally confirmed in his power ( 921 ).

David
ben Zakkai was
the last exilarch to play an important part in history
.

When Gaon Hai died in 1038, nearly
a century after Saadia's death,
the members of his academy could not find
a more worthy successor than
the exilarch Hezekiah,
a descendant, perhaps
a great-grandson, of David
ben Zakkai, who thereafter filled both offices
.

Several families, as late as
the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah,
the brother of David
ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (
see the genealogies in 1890 pp
. 180 et seq .).

Before Vespasian's departure,
the Pharisaic sage
and Rabbi Yohanan
ben Zakkai obtained his permission to establish
a Judaic school at Yavne
.

** Yohanan
ben Zakkai
* Yohanan
ben Zakkai ( 1st century AD )

This event directly led to
the escape of Yochanan
ben Zakkai out of Jerusalem, who met Vespasian,
a meeting which led to
the foundation of
the Academy of Yavneh which produced
the Mishnah which led to
the survival of rabbinical Judaism
.
: Once, Rabbi Yochanan
ben Zakkai was walking with his disciple, Rabbi Yehoshua, near Jerusalem after
the destruction of
the Temple
.
" Then Rabbi Yohannan
ben Zakkai spoke to him these words of comfort
: " Be not grieved, my son
.
ben and said

His biographer
ben Khalliken, who died in 1282,
said that even in his lifetime great shatranj players were
said to play like al-Suli
.

Rabbi Zechariah
ben Hakatsab
said,
" By this Temple, her hand did not stir from my hand from
the time
the non-Jews entered Jerusalem until they went out
.

Among his teachers in Talmud were Judah
ben Yakkar
and Meïr
ben Nathan of Trinquetaille,
and he
is said to have been instructed in Kabbalah ( Jewish mysticism ) by his countryman Azriel of Gerona, who was in turn
a disciple of Isaac
the Blind
.

Karaites were
said to have attended his lectures, among them being Aaron
ben Joseph
the Elder, who later became one of
the greatest Karaite authorities ( although Graetz writes
that there
is no veracity to
that ).

Casar ... hoped ye Duke tho he had
ben Victorious over
the Enemy would not think of being so over
a House of Commons
: wch was
said in pursuance to
a Motion made by some of
the Craftier sort
that would not oppose
the proposition directly but turn it off by
a Side-Wind pretending
that it being
a money affaire it
should be refer'd to
a Committee of
the whole House wch in all probability would have defeated
the whole affaire ...'.
: Rabbi Alexandri
said in
the name of Rabi Yehoshua
ben Levi
: One who has prayed
should take three steps backward
and afterwards pray
for peace
.

It
is said that he introduced
the cross-staff to Portugal ( an invention first described by
the Spanish Jew Levi
ben Gerson in
the 14th century ), but this
is a matter of some controversy
.

In reference to his name
and crutch, he often
said " Ik
ben rijk en wel gestelt
" (" I am rich
and well off ",
a pun on his name Rijckaert ( rijck means rich, while rijkaard means rich
man ),
and having to use
a crutch ( gestelt means with
a crutch, while welgesteld means well off ).
" Rabbi Pinchas
ben Yair
said:

In
the Talmud he
is said to have taught Rabbi Ishmael
ben Elisha hygiene
.

In
the times of
the said princes lived Simeon
ben Shetach,
and Judah
ben Tabbai, who flourished A
. M
. 3621, these two separated,
the latter from
the former, because he could not embrace his inventions which he formed out of his own brain ;
and from him
the Karaites sprung, who were first called
the society or congregation of Judah
ben Tabbai, which was afterwards changed into
the name of Karaites
.
He said to them,
' I prefer
the words of Rabbi Elazar
ben Arach to yours, because his words include yours as well
.

The frequent visits to
the palace of
the chief of
the Pharisaic party, Simeon
ben Shetach, who was
said to be
the queen's brother must have occurred in
the early years of Alexander's reign, before Alexander had openly broken with
the Pharisees
.

Bahir or Sefer HaBahir ס ֵ פ ֶ ר ה ַ ב ָּ ה ִ יר ( Hebrew,
" Book of
the Brightness ")
is an anonymous mystical work, attributed to
a 1st century rabbinic sage Nehunya
ben HaKanah (
a contemporary of Yochanan
ben Zakai ) because it begins with
the words,
" R
. Nehunya
ben HaKanah
said ".

(" R
. Nehunya
ben HaKanah
said ,"
the opening sentence )
He chose these names because he claimed to have been
a reincarnation of Benayahu
ben Yehoyada ( described as Ben Ish Chayil,
the son of
a valiant
man );
the man in whose merit, it
is said, both
the first
and second Holy Temples stood
.

I want you to buy me as soon as possible
for if you do not get me somebody else will
the servents are very disagreeable thay do all thay can to set my mistress against me Dear Husband you not
the trouble I
see the last two years has
ben like
a trouble dream to me it
is said Master
is in want of monney if so I know not
what time he may sell me an then all my bright hops of
the futer are blasted
for there has
ben one
ben and see

If, as has been suggested,
the reference in
the Talmud to
" a star which appears once in seventy years
that makes
the captains of
the ships err
" (
see above ) refers to Halley's Comet, it may be
a reference to
the 66 CE appearance, because this passage
is attributed to
the Rabbi Yehoshua
ben Hananiah
.

The Sanhedrin was relocated to Yavne by Yochanan
ben Zakai,
see also Council of Jamnia
.

There
is a mid-eighth century, Jewish, apocalypse attributed to
the Rabbi ;
see The Secrets of Rabbi Simon
ben Yohai
.

For
the medieval poet
and philologist,
see Menahem
ben Saruq
.

The first tosafot recorded are those written by Rashi's two sons-in-law, Meïr b
. Samuel of Ramerupt ( RaM )
and Judah
ben Nathan ( RIBaN ),
and by
a certain R
. Joseph ( Jacob Tam,
" Sefer ha-Yashar ," No
. 252 ;
" Haggahot Mordekai ," Sanh., No
. 696 ;
see below ).

The most prominent tosafist immediately after Jacob Tam was his pupil
and relative Isaac
ben Samuel ha-Zaḳen ( RI ) of Dampierre, whose tosafot form
a part of
the Tosafot Yeshanim (
see below ).

Most of
the secular scholars conclude
that Aaron
ben Asher was indeed
a Karaite though there
is evidence against this view (
see suggestions
for further reading ).

For
the great rabbi from
the Second Commonwealth period,
see Eliezer
ben Hurcanus
.
: For
the Jewish Tanna of
the 3d generation of
the Tannaic era,
see Eleazar
ben Judah of Bartota
.

with
the death of
the 112th High Priest Shlomyah
ben Pinhas, when
the priesthood was transferred to
the sons of Itamar ;
see article Samaritan
for list of High Priests from 1613 to 2004-the 131st High priest of
the Samaritans
is Elazar
ben Tsedaka
ben Yitzhaq
.
: For
the Jewish Tanna sage,
see Symmachus
ben Joseph
.

The High Priest Ananus
ben Ananus took advantage of this lack of imperial oversight to assemble
a Sanhedrin ( although
the correct translation of
the Greek
' synhedion kriton
' is ' a council of judges ',
see Synedrion
for the Greek use of
the word ) who condemned James
" on
the charge of breaking
the law ," then had him executed by stoning
.
He also condemned Menahem
ben Saruq
for failing to
see the relationship between Hebrew
and Arabic
.

A great deal of poetry was written, by poets such as Dunash
ben Labrat, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah ha-Levi, David Hakohen
and the two Ibn Ezras, in
a " purified
" Hebrew based on
the work of these grammarians,
and in Arabic quantitative metres (
see piyyut ).

321 ) attribute
the authorship to Israeli, because Abraham ibn Ḥasdai (
see above ),
and Jedaiah Bedersi in his apologetical letter to Solomon
ben Adret (" Orient, Lit
.

In 1611 Falk
and Enoch Hendel
ben Shemariah issued
a bill of divorce at Vienna which occasioned lengthy discussions among
the celebrated rabbis of
the time, including Meir Lublin
and Mordecai Yoffe (
see " She
' elot u-Teshubot MaHaRaM ", Nos
.

It
is interesting to note
that Rabbi Zerachiah
ben Isaac Ha-Levi Gerondi ( Hebrew
: רבינו זרחיה הלוי );
the Baal Ha-Maor ( author of
the book Ha-Maor ), went as far as to write
that " he who does not eat warm food ( on Shabbos )
should be checked out to
see if he
is not
a Min ( an heretic )".

For legends concerning Elisha
see Johanan
ben Nappaha ; Rabbi Meir ; compare also Gnosticism
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