In this work, Heschel views the 2nd century sages Rabbis Akiva ben Yosef and Ishmael ben Elisha as paradigms for the two dominant world-views in Jewish theology

The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.

Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph has also been viewed as a philosophical figure: his statements include 1.

In Pardes Rimonim, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero ( Ramak ) mentions a minority opinion that Rabbi Akiva authored it, and takes it to mean Abraham wrote it and Akiva redacted it to its current form.

Depiction of Akiva ben Joseph, Mantua Haggadah ( 1568 )

Akiva ben Joseph ( written עקיבא in the Babylonian talmud, and עקיבה in the Jerusalem Talmud — another form for עקביה ) who is usually called simply Akiva, was of comparatively humble parentage.

) narrates that Akiva at the age of 40, and when he was the father of a numerous family dependent upon him, eagerly attended the academy of his native town, Lod, presided over by Eliezer ben Hyrkanus.

Besides Eliezer, Akiva had other teachers — principally Joshua ben Hananiah ( Ab.

By agreement with his wife, Akiva spent twelve years away from her, pursuing his studies under Eliezer ben Hyrcanus and Joshua ben Hananiah.

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Upon his inquiry as to what these might be for, he received the answer, " There will come a man, named Akiva ben Joseph, who will deduce Halakot from every little curve and crown of the letters of the Law.

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He is proclaimed as the Messiah by Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph.

The line of succession was saved by Rabbi Yehuda ben Bava's martyrdom: he took no other rabbis with him, and five students of the recently martyred Rabbi Akiva, to a mountain pass far from any settlement or farm, and this one Rabbi ordained all five students.

He was proclaimed the Messiah by Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph.

A wealth of later works include commentary and exposition by such halachic authorities as the Ketzoth ha-Choshen and Avnei Millu ' im, Netivoth ha-Mishpat, the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Yechezkel Landau ( Dagul Mervavah ), Rabbis Akiva Eger, Moses Sofer, and Chaim Joseph David Azulai ( Birkei Yosef ) whose works are widely recognized and cited extensively in later halachic literature.

Hyrcanus was a neighbor of Joseph, the father of Akiva.

* Akiva Ben Joseph from the Jewish Encyclopedia

About 1860, Akiva Joseph, a Hasidic leader, placed Hildesheimer under a ban as " not truly a sincere Jew " (" emessdiger Jüd ").

" Love your neighbor as yourself ," states the Bible (), an injunction that Akiva ben Joseph in Genesis Rabbah 24: 7 famously calls a " great principle " of the Torah ( or perhaps " the greatest principle ").

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In a similar vein, Rabbi Akiva ( ca. 50 – ca. 135CE ), is said to have learned a new law from every et ( את ) in the Torah ( Talmud, tractate Pesachim 22b ); the word et is meaningless by itself, and serves only to mark the direct object.

Rabbi Akiva used to say, " Beloved is man, for he was created in God's image ; and the fact that God made it known that man was created in His image is indicative of an even greater love.

Talmudic sages Hillel and Rabbi Akiva commented that this is a major element of the Jewish religion.

According to the Midrash, he came into the world on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death.

The Talmud suggests that this was a result of Divine Providence: God had granted the Jewish people another leader of great stature to succeed Rabbi Akiva.

There are also references to the " Mishnah of Rabbi Akiva ", though this may simply mean his teachings in general.

It is possible that Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Meir established the divisions and order of subjects in the Mishnah, but this would make them the authors of a school curriculum rather than of a book.

Although Rabbi Lipschutz has faced some controversy in certain Hasidic circles, he was greatly respected by such sages as Rabbi Akiva Eiger, whom he frequently cites, and is widely accepted in the Yeshiva world.

This midrash collection was redacted into its final form around the 3rd or 4th century ; its contents indicate that its sources are some of the oldest midrashim, dating back possibly to the time of Rabbi Akiva.

The Sifra work follows the tradition of Rabbi Akiva with additions from the School of Rabbi Ishmael.

In 1954, he became the mazkir ( director ) of Greater New York City ’ s sixteen Bnei Akiva chapters.

Jewish theologians, who choose to emphasize the more evolutionary nature of the Halacha point to a famous story in the Talmud, where Moses is miraculously transported to the House of Study of Rabbi Akiva and is clearly unable to follow the ensuing discussion.

Examples are Bruriah, the wife of the Tanna Rabbi Meir ; Rachel, the wife of Rabbi Akiva ; and Yalta, the wife of Rabbi Nachman.

He was given the surname Bar Kokhba ( Aramaic for " Son of a Star ", referring to the Star Prophecy of, " there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab ") by his contemporary, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva.

Most editions of the Talmud include brief marginal notes by Akiva Eger under the name Gilyonot ha-Shas, and textual notes by Joel Sirkes and the Vilna Gaon ( see Textual emendations below ), on the page together with the text.

:... Less use is made of the halakhic Midrashim, the Jerusalem Talmud, and the other Targums, nor of the Midrashim like the Aggadat Shir ha-Shirim, the Midrash on Proverbs, and the Alfabet de-R. Akiva.

** Akiva Vroman, Dutch-born Israeli geologist and Israel Prize recipient ( d. 1989 )

Rabbi Akiva is supportive of the rebellion.

In 2006, Straczynski was hired to write a feature film based on the story of King David for Universal by producers Erwin Stoff and Akiva Goldsman.

Rabbi Akiva would also regard as heretical the readers of Sefarim Hetsonim – certain extraneous writings that were not canonized – as well such persons that would heal through whispered formulas of magic.

An emphasis on minute details of words and spellings, already used among the Pharisees as bases for argumentation, reached its height with the example of Rabbi Akiva ( d. 135 CE ).