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Yohanan ben Zakkai (Yōḥānān ben Zakkaʾy; 1st century CE), sometimes abbreviated as for Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, was a tanna, an important Jewish sage during the late Second Temple period during the transformative post-destruction era.[1]

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  1. 89 relations: Abba Sakkara, Aggadah, Arraba, Israel, Av Beit Din, Avot de-Rabbi Natan, Azazel, Bava Batra, Bavli, Bekhorot, Ben Zakai, Berakhot (tractate), Beth din, Book of Hosea, Book of Numbers, Burayr, Chadash, Chazal, Common Era, Corpse uncleanness, Counting of the Omer, Day's journey, Eliezer ben Hurcanus, First Jewish–Roman War, Four species, Gaius Cestius Gallus (governor of Syria), Galilee, Gamaliel, Gamaliel II, Gittin, Hagigah, Halakha, High Priest of Israel, Isaiah Horowitz, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Talmud, Job (biblical figure), Joshua ben Hananiah, Judea, Kohen, Korban, Maimonides, Menachot, Messiah in Judaism, Mishnah, Nasi (Hebrew title), Nisan, Numbers Rabbah, Parah, Pharisees, Pirkei Avot, ... Expand index (39 more) »

  2. 1st-century rabbis
  3. Pirkei Avot rabbis
  4. Sanhedrin
  5. Yavne

Abba Sakkara

Abba Sakkara (alternatively written as Abba Sikra and Abba Sikkara, Aramaic: אבא סקרא, lit. "father of the Sicarii"), was a 1st-century leader of the Jewish Zealots, who had revolted against the Romans in Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman war.

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Aggadah

Aggadah (אַגָּדָה ʾAggāḏā or Haggāḏā; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly the Talmud and Midrash.

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Arraba, Israel

Arraba (עראבה; عرّابة), also known as 'Arrabat al-Battuf, is an Arab city in Israel.

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Av Beit Din

The av beit din, abbreviated (אב״ד avad), was the second-highest-ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Temple period and served as an assistant to the nasi. Yohanan ben Zakkai and av Beit Din are Sanhedrin.

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Avot de-Rabbi Natan

Avot of Rabbi Natan, also known as Avot de-Rabbi Nathan (ARN), the first and longest of the minor tractates of the Talmud, is a Jewish aggadic work probably compiled in the geonic era (c.700–900 CE).

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Azazel

In the Hebrew Bible, the name Azazel (עֲזָאזֵל ʿĂzāʾzēl) represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was sent during Yom Kippur.

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Bava Batra

Bava Batra (also Baba Batra; The Last Gate) is the third of the three Talmudic tractates in the Talmud in the order Nezikin; it deals with a person's responsibilities and rights as the owner of property.

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Bavli

Bavli (בבלי), or Shikun Bavli, is a neighborhood in central Tel Aviv, Israel, named after the Babylonian Talmud, and bounded by Hayarkon Park on the north, Ayalon highway to the east, Namir road to the west, and Park Tzameret to the south.

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Bekhorot

Pidyon haben Bekorot (Hebrew: בכורות, "First-borns") is the name of a tractate of the Mishnah and Talmud which discusses the laws of first-born animals and humans.

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Ben Zakai

Ben Zakai (בֶּן זַכַּאי) is a religious moshav in central Israel.

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Berakhot (tractate)

Berakhot (Brakhot, lit. "Blessings") is the first tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud.

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Beth din

A beth din (house of judgment,, Ashkenazic: beis din, plural: batei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism.

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Book of Hosea

The Book of Hosea (סֵפֶר הוֹשֵׁעַ|Sēfer Hōšēaʿ) is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Tanakh, and as a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.

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Book of Numbers

The Book of Numbers (from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi, lit. 'numbers'; בְּמִדְבַּר, Bəmīḏbar,; Liber Numeri) is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah.

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Burayr

Burayr (برير) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, northeast of Gaza City.

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Chadash

In Judaism, Chadash is a concept within Kashrut (the Jewish dietary regulations), based on the Biblical requirement not to eat any grain of the new year (or products made from it) prior to the annual Omer offering on the 16th day of Nisan.

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Chazal

Chazal or Ḥazal (חז״ל) are the Jewish sages of the Mishnaic, Toseftic and Talmudic eras, spanning from the final 300 years of the Second Temple period until the 7th century, or.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Corpse uncleanness

Corpse uncleanness (Hebrew: tum'at met) is a state of ritual uncleanness described in Jewish halachic law.

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Counting of the Omer

Counting of the Omer (Sefirat HaOmer, sometimes abbreviated as Sefira) is a ritual in Judaism.

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Day's journey

A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible, ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance.

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Eliezer ben Hurcanus

Eliezer ben Hurcanus or Hyrcanus (אליעזר בן הורקנוס) was one of the most prominent Sages (tannaim) of the 1st and 2nd centuries in Judea, disciple of Rabban Yohanan ben ZakkaiAvot of Rabbi Natan 14:5 and colleague of Gamaliel II (whose sister Ima Shalom he married), and of Joshua ben Hananiah. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Eliezer ben Hurcanus are 1st-century rabbis, Mishnah rabbis and Pirkei Avot rabbis.

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First Jewish–Roman War

The First Jewish–Roman War (66–74 CE), sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt (ha-Mered Ha-Gadol), or The Jewish War, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews against the Roman Empire fought in the province of Judaea, resulting in the destruction of Jewish towns, the displacement of its people and the appropriation of land for Roman military use, as well as the destruction of the Jewish Temple and polity.

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Four species

The four species (ארבעת המינים, also called arba'a minim) are four plants—the etrog, lulav, hadass, and aravah—mentioned in the Torah as being relevant to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

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Gaius Cestius Gallus (governor of Syria)

Gaius Cestius Gallus (d. 67 AD) was a Roman senator and general who was active during the Principate.

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Galilee

Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.

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Gamaliel

Gamaliel the Elder (also spelled Gamliel; רַבַּן גַּמְלִיאֵל הַזָּקֵן Rabban Gamlīʾēl hazZāqēn; Γαμαλιὴλ ὁ Πρεσβύτερος Gamaliēl ho Presbýteros), or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Gamaliel are 1st-century rabbis, Mishnah rabbis, Pirkei Avot rabbis and Sanhedrin.

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Gamaliel II

Rabban Gamaliel II (also spelled Gamliel; רבן גמליאל דיבנה; before –) was a rabbi from the second generation of tannaim. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Gamaliel II are 1st-century rabbis, Mishnah rabbis, Sanhedrin and Yavne.

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Gittin

Gittin (Hebrew) is a tractate of the Mishnah and the Talmud, and is part of the order of Nashim.

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Hagigah

Hagigah or Chagigah (Hebrew: חגיגה, lit. "Festival Offering") is one of the tractates comprising Moed, one of the six orders of the Mishnah, a collection of Jewish traditions included in the Talmud.

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Halakha

Halakha (translit), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho, is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.

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High Priest of Israel

In Judaism, the High Priest of Israel (lit) was the head of the Israelite priesthood.

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Isaiah Horowitz

Isaiah or Yeshayahu ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz (ישעיה בן אברהם הלוי הורוויץ), (c. 1555 – March 24, 1630), also known as the Shelah HaKaddosh ("the holy Shelah") after the title of his best-known work, was a prominent rabbi and mystic.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jerusalem Talmud

The Jerusalem Talmud (translit, often for short) or Palestinian Talmud, also known as the Talmud of the Land of Israel, is a collection of rabbinic notes on the second-century Jewish oral tradition known as the Mishnah.

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Job (biblical figure)

Job (אִיּוֹב Īyyōv; Ἰώβ Iṓb) is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible.

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Joshua ben Hananiah

Joshua ben Hananiah (Yəhōšuaʿ ben Ḥánanyāh; d. 131 CE), also known as Rabbi Yehoshua, was a leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Second Temple. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Joshua ben Hananiah are Mishnah rabbis and Pirkei Avot rabbis.

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Judea

Judea or Judaea (Ἰουδαία,; Iudaea) is a mountainous region of the Levant.

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Kohen

Kohen (כֹּהֵן, kōhēn,, "priest", pl., kōhănīm,, "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference to the Aaronic priesthood, also called Aaronites or Aaronides.

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Korban

In Judaism, the (קָרְבָּן|qorbān|label.

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Maimonides

Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (רמב״ם), was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.

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Menachot

Tractate Menachot (מְנָחוֹת; "Meal Offerings") is the second tractate of the Order of Kodashim.

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Messiah in Judaism

The Messiah in Judaism is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews.

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Mishnah

The Mishnah or the Mishna (מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah.

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Nasi (Hebrew title)

Nasi (nāśī) is a title meaning "prince" in Biblical Hebrew, "Prince " in Mishnaic Hebrew. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Nasi (Hebrew title) are Sanhedrin.

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Nisan

Nisan (or Nissan; Nīsān from translit) in the Babylonian and Hebrew calendars is the month of the barley ripening and first month of spring.

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Numbers Rabbah

Numbers Rabbah (or Bamidbar Rabbah in Hebrew) is a religious text holy to classical Judaism.

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Parah

Parah (פָּרָה) is the name of a treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order Tohorot.

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Pharisees

The Pharisees (lit) were a Jewish social movement and a school of thought in the Levant during the time of Second Temple Judaism.

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Pirkei Avot

Pirkei Avot (Chapters of the fathers; also transliterated as Pirqei Avoth or Pirkei Avos or Pirke Aboth), which translates to English as Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims from Rabbinic Jewish tradition.

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Priestly Blessing

The Priestly Blessing or priestly benediction (ברכת כהנים; translit. birkat kohanim), also known in rabbinic literature as raising of the hands (Hebrew nesiat kapayim), rising to the platform (Hebrew aliyah ledukhan), dukhenen (Yiddish from the Hebrew word dukhan – platform – because the blessing is given from a raised rostrum), or duchening, is a Hebrew prayer recited by Kohanim (the Hebrew Priests, descendants of Aaron).

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Rabbi

A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.

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Rabbi Zadok

Rabbi Zadok (Hebrew: רבי צדוק) was a Tanna of the second generation of the Tannaic era, a contemporary of Joshua ben Hananiah and Eliezer ben Hurcanus, descending from Tribe of Benjamin. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Rabbi Zadok are Mishnah rabbis and Pirkei Avot rabbis.

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Rabbinic Judaism

Rabbinic Judaism (יהדות רבנית|Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Rabbanite Judaism, has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian Talmud.

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Red heifer

The red heifer (translit), a heifer which is never pregnant, milked, yoked, also known as the red cow, is a heifer sacrificed by the priests as a sacrifice to Yahweh in the Torah, Bible, Quran.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Rosh Chodesh

In Judaism, Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh (trans. Beginning of the Month; lit. Head of the Month) is a minor holiday observed at the beginning of every month in the Hebrew calendar, marked by the birth of a new moon.

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Rosh Hashanah

Rosh HaShanah (רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה,, literally "head of the year") is the New Year in Judaism.

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Sadducees

The Sadducees (lit) were a sect of Jews active in Judea during the Second Temple period, from the second century BCE to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

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Sanhedrin

The Sanhedrin (Hebrew and Middle Aramaic סַנְהֶדְרִין, a loanword from synedrion, 'assembly,' 'sitting together,' hence 'assembly' or 'council') was a legislative and judicial assembly of either 23 or 71 elders, existing at both a local and central level in the ancient Land of Israel.

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Second Temple

The Second Temple was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem, in use between and its destruction in 70 CE.

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Second Temple period

The Second Temple period or post-exilic period in Jewish history denotes the approximately 600 years (516 BCE – 70 CE) during which the Second Temple stood in the city of Jerusalem.

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Shabbat

Shabbat (or; Šabbāṯ) or the Sabbath, also called Shabbos by Ashkenazim, is Judaism's day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday.

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Shammai

Shammai (c. 50 BCE – c. 30 CE, שַׁמַּאי, Šammaʾy) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st century, and an important figure in Judaism's core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Shammai are 1st-century rabbis, Mishnah rabbis and Pirkei Avot rabbis.

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Shofar

A shofar (from) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish religious purposes.

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Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)

The Siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Judaea.

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Simeon ben Gamliel

Simeon ben Gamliel (I) (or רשב"ג הראשון; c. 10 BC – 70 AD) was a Tanna sage and leader of the Jewish people. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Simeon ben Gamliel are 1st-century rabbis, Mishnah rabbis, Pirkei Avot rabbis and Sanhedrin.

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Sotah (Talmud)

Sotah (סוֹטָה or שׂוֹטָה) is a tractate of the Talmud in Rabbinic Judaism.

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Sukkot

Sukkot is a Torah-commanded holiday celebrated for seven days, beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei.

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Talmud

The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.

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Tamid

Tamid (daily offerings) is the ninth tractate in Kodashim, which is the fifth of the six orders of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Talmud.

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Tannaim

Tannaim (Amoraic Hebrew: תנאים "repeaters", "teachers", singular tanna תנא, borrowed from Aramaic) were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10–220 CE. Yohanan ben Zakkai and Tannaim are Mishnah rabbis.

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Tefillin

Tefillin (Israeli Hebrew: /; Ashkenazic pronunciation:; Modern Hebrew pronunciation), or phylacteries, are a set of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah.

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Temple in Jerusalem

The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple, refers to the two religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.

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The Jewish Encyclopedia

The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism up to the early 20th century.

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Tiberias

Tiberias (טְבֶרְיָה,; Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.

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Tishrei

Tishrei or Tishri (תִּשְׁרֵי tīšrē or tīšrī; from Akkadian tašrītu "beginning", from šurrû "to begin") is the first month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year (which starts on 1 Nisan) in the Hebrew calendar.

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Titus

Titus Caesar Vespasianus (30 December 39 – 13 September AD 81) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81.

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Tomb of Maimonides

According to Jewish tradition, the Tomb of Maimonides (קבר הרמב"ם) is located in Tiberias, Israel.

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Torah

The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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Tosefta

The Tosefta (translit "supplement, addition") is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the Tannaim.

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Transliteration

Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways, such as Greek →, Cyrillic →, Greek → the digraph, Armenian → or Latin →.

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Vespasian

Vespasian (Vespasianus; 17 November AD 9 – 23 June 79) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79.

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Vitellius

Aulus Vitellius (24 September 1520 December 69) was Roman emperor for eight months, from 19 April to 20 December AD 69.

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Western esotericism

Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.

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Yadayim

Yadayim (Hebrew: ידיים, "hands") is a tractate of the Mishnah and the Tosefta, dealing with the impurity of the hands and their ablution.

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Yavne

Yavne (יַבְנֶה) is a city in the Central District of Israel.

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Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur (יוֹם כִּפּוּר) is the holiest day of the year in Judaism.

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Zealots

The Zealots were a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70).

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See also

1st-century rabbis

Pirkei Avot rabbis

Sanhedrin

Yavne

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohanan_ben_Zakkai

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