As the fundamental principle of his system, Akiva enunciates his conviction that the mode of expression used by the Torah is quite different from that of every other book.

Ishmael gradually developed a system of halakhic exegesis which, while running parallel with that of Rabbi Akiva, is admitted to be the more logical.

Their isolation was somewhat relieved by the establishment in 1945 of Masu ' ot Yitzhak and Ein Tzurim, populated by members of the religious Bnei Akiva movement and Religious Kibbutz Movement.

Johanan bar Nappaḥa ( 199 – 279 ) has left the following important note relative to the composition and editing of the Mishnah and other halakic works: " Our Mishnah comes directly from Rabbi Meir, the Tosefta from R. Nehemiah, the Sifra from R. Judah, and the Sifre from R. Simon ; but they all took Akiva for a model in their works and followed him " ( Sanh.

17 Tammuz is the beginning of The Three Weeks, in which Jews follow similar customs as the ones followed during the Omer from the day following Passover until the culmination of the mourning for the death of the students of Rabbi Akiva ( Akibah ) the thirty-third day of the Omer-such as refraining from marriage and haircuts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Rabbi Akiva, Jewish sage, executed by the Romans ( probable date )

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.

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On April 7, 2010, Kaufman confirmed that a PG-13 remake of The Toxic Avenger was happening and will be produced by Akiva Goldsman.

* Location of Camp Stone, a summer camp run by the Bnei Akiva.

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.

The Sages of the Mishnah known as the Tannaim, from the 1st and 2nd centuries of the common era, were known by the title Rabbi, for example Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochoy.

She stood loyally by her husband during that critical period of his life in which Akiva dedicated himself to the study of Torah.

) 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 these, who all attained great renown, Akiva undoubtedly had many disciples whose names have not been handed down, but whose number is variously stated by the Aggadah at 12, 000 ( Gen. R. lxi.

68d ), and this is absolutely all there is in evidence of an active participation by Akiva in the revolution.

A sufficient ground for refusing credence in any participation by Akiva in the political anti-Roman movements of his day is the statement of the Baraita ( Ber.

That the religious interdicts of Hadrian preceded the overthrow of Bar Kokba, is shown by Mek., Mishpaṭim, 18, where Akiva regards the martyrdom of two of his friends as ominous of his own fate.

Though so modest, yet when an important matter and not a merely personal one was concerned Akiva could not be cowed by the greatest, as is evidenced by his attitude toward the patriarch Gamaliel II.

But Akiva was just as firmly convinced that the power of the patriarch must be limited both by the written and the oral law, the interpretation of which lay in the hands of the learned ; and he was accordingly brave enough to act in ritual matters in Gamaliel's own house contrary to the decisions of Gamaliel himself.

Eminent as Akiva was by his magnanimity and moral worthiness, he was still more so by his intellectual capacity, by which he secured an enduring influence upon his contemporaries and upon posterity.

Admirable as is the systematization of the Halakhah by Akiva, his hermeneutics and halakhic exegesis — which form the foundation of all Talmudic learning — surpassed it.

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 ).

* The high conception of woman's dignity, which Akiva shared in common with most other Pharisees, induced him to abolish the Oriental custom that banished ritually impure women from all social intercourse.

Akiva at once divided with him his scanty possession, remarking to his wife, " Thou seest, my child, there are those poorer than we!

Or Akiva is home to a number of large factories those of Dexxon ( pharmaceuticals ), Anna Lotan Ltd. ( professional skin care ), Darbox Ltd. ( plastic packaging ), Meprolight ( gunsights and nightvision ) and Tyco ( electronics ).

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.

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.

" This pretended poor man was none other than the prophet Elijah, who had come to test Akiva ( Ned.

Convinced of the necessity of a central authority for Judaism, Akiva became a devoted adherent and friend of Gamaliel, who aimed at constituting the patriarch the true spiritual chief of the Jews ( R. H. ii.

In the first place, Akiva was the one who definitely fixed the canon of the Tanakh books.

According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiva who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex ; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah ; and the Halakot, the logical amplification of the Halakah ( Yer.

3 ) mentions that of the four who entered paradise, Akiva was the only one that returned unscathed.

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.

The following account of his martyrdom is on a high plane and contains a proper appreciation of his principles: when Rufus —" Tyrannus Rufus ," as he is called in Jewish sources — who was the pliant tool of Hadrian's vengeance, condemned the venerable Akiva to the hand of the executioner, it was just the time to recite the Shema.

The version in the Babylonian Talmud ( Berachot 61b ) tells it as a response of Akiva to his students, who asked him how even now — as he is being tortured — he could yet offer prayers to God.

It is related that, during his stay in Rome, Akiva became intimately acquainted with the Jewish proselyte ḳeṭia ' bar Shalom, a very influential Roman — according to some scholars identical with Flavius Clemens, Domitian's nephew, who, before his execution for pleading the cause of the Jews, bequeathed to Akiba all his possessions ( Ab.

Akiva was the shepherd of a rich man nicknamed Kalba Savua because anyone who entered his house hungry like a dog ( kalba ) went out satiated ( savua ) ( a reference to his hospitality toward guests ).

A loose organisation of Bnei Akiva activists, who later coalesced into Gush Emunim, led by Hanan Porat, whose parents had been evacuated, petitioned Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol to allow the reestablishment of Kfar Etzion.

Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, author of Aruch Hashulchan, postulates that the mourning period also memorializes Jews who were murdered during the Crusades, pogroms and blood libels that occurred in Europe 1, 000 years after the period of Rabbi Akiva.

* During the summer of 2008 Klondike worked with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island, who created a series of digital shorts in conjunction with the " What would you do for a Klondike Bar?

However, in both the Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud the major players in this Chariot / Throne endeavor are, clearly, Rabbi Akiva and Elisha ben Abuyah who is referred to as " Akher.

In the " four-entered-pardes " section of this portion of the Bavli Gemara on tractate Hagigah, it is the figure of Akiva who seems to be lionized.

The name Aish HaTorah, literally " Fire the Torah ", was inspired by the Talmudic story of Rabbi Akiva, the once illiterate 40-year-old shepherd who subsequently became the most famous sage of the Mishnah.

Young people of the Akiva youth movement, who had undertaken the publication of an underground newsletter, HeHaluc HaLohem (" The Fighting Pioneer "), joined forces with other Zionists to form a local branch of the Jewish Fighting Organization ( ŻOB, Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa ), and organize resistance in the ghetto, supported by the Polish underground Armia Krajowa.

Hired along with Samberg were his longtime friends and The Lonely Island collaborators Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, who joined the writing staff.

Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld was the one who encouraged Rabbi Scheinberg to relocate his yeshiva to Jerusalem from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, offering attractive terms for apartments and land for the yeshiva.