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.

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 ).

25 Elul-Death of Eleazar b. Simeon, son of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai ( 2nd century CE )

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.

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.

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.

Currently headed by Chief of Staff general Simeon Simeonov, the General Staff is responsible for operational command of the Bulgarian Army and its 3 major branches.

The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.

Halakhot Gedolot (" Great Law Book "), by R. Simeon Kayyara, published two generations later, contains extensive additional material, mainly from Responsa and Monographs of the Geonim, and is presented in a form that is closer to the original Talmud language and structure.

* 2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.

However, James ' successor as leader of the Jerusalem church, Simeon, is not, in tradition, appointed till after the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70, and Eusebius ' notice of Simeon implies a date for the death of James immediately before the siege, i. e. about AD 69.

The band's fashion-sense has been seminal ; Simeon Lipman, head of pop culture at Christie's auction house, has commented that " Led Zeppelin have had a big influence on fashion because the whole aura surrounding them is so cool, and people want a piece of that ".

One is Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael, the other is Mekhilta de Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai.

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.

Reed is named for Oregon pioneers Simeon Gannett Reed and Amanda Reed.

* September 8 – Bulgaria is declared a People's Republic after a referendum ; King Simeon II leaves.

* 893: Council of Preslav-Vladimir-Rasate is dethroned and succeeded as Prince of Bulgaria by Simeon I ; the capital is moved from Pliska to Preslav ; the Byzantine clergy is expelled and replaced by Bulgarian ; Old Bulgarian becomes the official language of the country.

Because of the baptism of Jesus, water from the Jordan is employed for the christening of heirs and princes in several Christian royal houses, such as the cases of Simeon of Bulgaria or James Ogilvy.

* Peter I succeeds Simeon the Great on the throne of Bulgaria, and is recognised as Tsar by the Byzantine Empire.

* August 20 – Battle of Achelous: A large-scale Byzantine expedition against Bulgaria is routed by Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria.

Footage of Jimmy Walker is used in the 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig, with Walker being one the guests during Zelig's visit to Randolph Hearst's mansion, San Simeon.

* Council of Preslav: Simeon I succeeds Vladimir as prince of Bulgaria ; the capital is moved from Pliska to Preslav.

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.

Following the UDP's municipal victory of 2006, the mayor of Belmopan is Simeon López.

In the Judaean Second Temple period, Rabbi Simeon ben Shetach in the 1st century BC is reported to have sentenced to death eighty women who had been charged with witchcraft on a single day in Ashkelon.

In the lists of cities of the Israelites by tribe given in the Book of Joshua, Ziklag appears both as a town belonging to the Tribe of Judah () and as a town belonging to the Tribe of Simeon ().

# One of the " uttermost cities " of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon ( Josh.

:" Because the LORD had heard that I was hated, he had therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.

For example, Boris III of Bulgaria and his son Simeon II were given their regnal numbers because the medieval rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empire were counted as well even if the Saxe-Coburg dynasty dated only back to 1887 and were only distantly related to the previous monarchies.

San Simeon is located on the Rancho Piedra Blanca Mexican land grant given in 1840 to José de Jesús Pico.

Chamoun, or Shamoun, is an Arabic given name and family name and a variant of Simeon and Shimun.

* A city in Negev given to Simeon, also romanized as Bilhah ( 1 Chr.

Simeon was given more powers by the Khan to counter Lithuania's growing power.

The Syriac Patriarch Ishôyahb III wrote in his correspondence to Simeon of Rewardashir, " As for the Arabs, to whom God has at this time given rule ( shultãnâ ) over the world, you know well how they act toward us.

Born in Trier, he belonged to a noble family which had been for many generations connected with the court and diocese of the archbishop-elect on, his father, Kaspar von Hontheim, being receiver-general of the archdiocese At the age of twelve young Hontheim was given by his maternal uncle, canon of the collegiate church of St Simeon ( which at that time still occupied the Roman Porta Nigra at Trier ), a prebend in his church, and on May 13, 1713 he received the tonsure.

The palace, along with the other properties given back to Simeon II, has been the subject of much controversy in the Bulgarian media and society in the 2000s, as many argue they are in fact supposed to be public property.

Its etymology is the " son of Semyon " or " belonging to Semyon ", where " Semyon " is a Russian given name that corresponds to Simeon, Simon.

Simeon is not given to family sentiment, and not all of the family are on good terms with one another.

Jean Simeon Rousseau studied at the Academie Royale, where in September 1768 he won the medal given to the best painter of the quarter.

:" This Gautbert, who at his consecration received the honoured name of the apostle Simeon, went to Sweden, and was honourably received by the king and the people ; and he began, amidst general goodwill and approval, to build a church there --" ( Chapter XIV )

Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Simeon the second son of Jacob, and of Leah, from whom it took its name ; however some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.

The tribe is completely absent from the Blessing of Moses, which textual scholars date to near the time of the Deuteronomist, after the dates of these census ; some Septuagint manuscripts appear to have attempted to correct this, adding the name of Simeon to the latter half of verse 6, which scholars view as unwarranted based on the Hebrew manuscripts.

Since Simeon and Benjamin had been very much the junior partners in the Kingdom of Judah, it was Judah that gave its name to the identity-that of the Jews.

Before his death in 1353, Simeon took monastic vows and took the name of Sozont.

Some sources claim the originator was the brother of tsar Petar, the fourth of the sons of Simeon I-Beneamin-Boyan, known in Bulgaria under the name Boyan the Magus.

The name is derived from Simeon, son of Jacob and Leah, patriarch of the Tribe of Simeon.

The text of Genesis ( 29: 33 ) argues that the name of Simeon refers to Leah's belief that God had heard that she was hated by Jacob, in the sense of not being as favoured as Rachel.

implying a derivation from the Hebrew term shama on, meaning " he has heard "; this is a similar etymology as the Torah gives for the theophoric name Ishmael (" God has heard "; Genesis 16: 11 ), on the basis of which it has been argued that the tribe of Simeon may originally have been an Ishmaelite group ( Cheyne and Black, Encyclopaedia Biblica ).

* Simeon was the name of one priest and one deacon martyred with Abda and Abdjesus

It was founded in 1198 by the first Serbian Archbishop Saint Sava and his father, Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja ( who later became a monk there, taking the monastic name of " Simeon ") of the medieval Serbian principality of Raška ( Rascia ).

Nemanja took monastic vows in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul and adopted the monastic name of Simeon.

The name San Simeon also refers to some geologic structures of the area, particularly elements of the coastal Jurassic Age landforms and ophiolite mineral formations.

He took the Hebrew name Simeon as a novice in a monastery in Constantinople.

Hearst Castle and grounds are also sometimes referred to as " San Simeon " without distinguishing between the Hearst property and the adjacent unincorporated area of the same name.

The canonical Gospels name four brothers, James, Joseph ( Joses ), Judas and Simon, but only James is known to history, though some associate Simeon of Jerusalem with Simon the brother of Jesus.