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Simeon bar Yochai, ( Aramaic: רבן שמעון בר יוחאי, Rabban Shimon bar Yochai ), also known by his acronym Rashbi, was a famous 1st-century tannaic sage in ancient Israel, active after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
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The Mekhilta de Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai is an exegetical midrash on Exodus 3 to 35, and is very roughly dated to near the 4th century.
Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.
This is also the view held by Simeon bar Yochai, Clementine literature, Sextus Julius Africanus, Ephrem the Syrian, Augustine of Hippo, and John Chrysostom among many other early authorities.
The greatest tannaim of the middle of the 2nd century came from Akiva's school, notably Rabbi Meir, Judah ben Ilai, Simeon bar Yohai, Jose ben Halafta, Eleazar ben Shammai, and Rabbi Nehemiah.
He had intended to go to the bar, but in the October term of 1802 he chanced to hear Charles Simeon speaking of the good done in India by a single missionary, William Carey, and some time afterwards he read the life of David Brainerd, a missionary to the Native Americans.
A mass hair cutting ceremony is held on the holiday of Lag Ba ' omer at the tomb of Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai in the Galilean town of Meron.
Simeon ben Lakish ( in Hebrew, Shimon ben Lakish ; in Aramaic, Shimon bar Lakish or bar Lakisha ), better known by his nickname Resh Lakish, was an amora who lived in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina in the third century CE.
There he studied under Ḥanina and Joshua ben Levi, and came into very close contact with Simeon bar Laḳish.
Simeon and Yochai
Simeon and שמעון
Paleo-Hebrew text reads שמעון (" Simeon ") on front and לחרות ירושלם (" for the freedom of Jerusalem ") on back.
Simeon and Rabban
In Tabriz, André de Longjumeau met with a monk from the Far East, named Simeon Rabban Ata, who had been put in charge by the Khan of protecting the Christians in the Middle-East.
Rabban Simeon, the son of Gamliel, said that wine was used to make onycha become hard, thereby admitting that onycha was not a preexistingly hard mollusk shell, but that onycha was a soft resinous material such as is labdanum.
... Rab Judah reported Samuel as saying in the name of Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel ; What is signified by the verse, " Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city?
Simeon and Shimon
The formula in which a person's name is written is one's own Hebrew name, the son / daughter of one's mother's Hebrew name, such as Shimon ben Rivkah ( Simeon the son of Rebecca ).
Simeon ben Shetach, first name also Shimon and last name also ben Shatach, ( c. 120-40 BCE ) was a Pharisee scholar and Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reigns of Alexander Jannæus ( c. 103-76 BCE ) and his successor, Queen Alexandra Salome ( c. 76-67 BCE ), who was Simeon's sister.
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:" Adalvard the Elder ( Adalwardus senior ) was to superintend both lands of the Geats ( uterque praefectus est Gothiae ), Adalvard the Younger Sigtuna ( Sictunam ) and Uppsala ( Ubsalam ), Simeon ( Symon ) the Sami people ( Scritefingos ), John ( Iohannes ) the islands of the Baltic Sea.
Under Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria ( Simeon the Great ), who was educated in Constantinople, Bulgaria became again a serious threat to the Byzantine Empire.
As Simeon the Great during the first empire, Ivan Asen II expanded the territory to the coasts of three seas ( Adriatic, Aegean and Black ), annexed Medea-the last fortress before the walls of Constantinople, unsuccessfully besieged the city in 1235 and restored the destroyed since 1018 Bulgarian Patriarchate.
For the post-exilic period, beginning in the 5th century BCE, the remnants of the Israelite tribes came to be referred to as Jews ( tribes of Judah, Simeon and partially Benjamin and Levi ), named for the kingdom of Judah.
Jacob's twelve sons ( in order of birth ), Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin, become the ancestors of twelve tribes, with the exception of Joseph, whose two sons Mannasseh and Ephraim become tribal eponyms.
DeWitt Clinton was the second son born to James Clinton and his wife Mary DeWitt ( 1737 – 1795, aunt of Simeon De Witt ), and was educated at King's College, what is now Columbia University.
In addition to his numerous letters to various notables and foreign rulers ( including Simeon of Bulgaria ), Nicholas Mystikos wrote a homily on the sack of Thessalonica by the Arabs in 904.
* Hearst co-authored a novel with Cordelia Frances Biddle titled Murder at San Simeon ( Scribner, 1996 ), based upon the death of Thomas Ince on her grandfather's yacht.
In the Book of Judges ( 1: 4-7 ), Adoni-Bezek, ( simply " lord of Bezek "), was a Canaanite king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, was attacked by the armies of Judah and Simeon.
** Zimri ( prince ), the Prince of the Tribe of Simeon during the time of the Israelites were in the desert
After the reign of Solomon, the Kingdom of Israel was divided in two, the house of Joseph in the north made up of ten tribes ( Gad, Zebulun, Ashur, Issachar, Simeon, Naphtali, Joseph ( Ephraim and Manasseh ), Dan, Reuben, Levi ) and the Kingdom of Judah in the south made up of two tribes ( Judah and Benjamin ) ().
Relations were subsequently marred by continued wrangling over titles ( Simeon called himself emperor of the Romans as well ), but peace had been effectively established.
The deserts of the middle-east were at one time inhabited by thousands of hermits including St. Anthony the Great ( aka St. Anthony of the Desert ), St. Mary of Egypt, and St. Simeon Stylites.
Stars included Triple Olympic Champion Usain Bolt ( Jamaica ) alongside Ivory Williams ( USA ), Simeon Williamson ( UK ) and other international track stars.
* Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria ( born 1933 ), daughter of Tsar Boris III and Tsaritsa Ioanna of Bulgaria and the sister of HM Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, the deposed monarch.
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