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Yohanan ben Zakkai[a] (Hebrew: יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי, romanized: Yōḥānān ben Zakkaʾy; 1st century CE), sometimes abbreviated as ריב״ז ribaz for R abbi Y ohanan b en Z akkai, was a tanna, an important Jewish sage during the late Second Temple period during the transformative post-destruction era. He was a ...
Materials. Jerusalem stone. The Four Sephardic Synagogues are a complex of four adjoining synagogues located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, in Israel. The four synagogues include: the Eliahu Ha'navi Synagogue (established c. 1586), the Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue (whose current building dates to the beginning of the 17th ...
Rabbinic period. Beit Shearim, one of the galilean locations of the Sanhedrin. The Rabbinic period, or the Talmudic period, [1] denotes a transformative era in Jewish history, spanning from the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE to the Muslim conquest in 638 CE. Pivotal in shaping Judaism into its classical form, it is regarded as the ...
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. Following a five-month siege, the Romans destroyed the city, including the Second Jewish Temple. [1][2][3]
Explanations in rabbinical literature vary concerning cessation of the practice. Yohanan Ben Zakkai stated: When adulterers became many, the ordeal of the bitter water stopped, for the ordeal of bitter water is performed only in a case of doubt. But now there are many who see their lovers in public. [37] Rav Hanina of Sura said:
Joshua ben Hananiah (Hebrew: יהושע בן חנניה 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. He is the seventh-most-frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah.
Takkanah. A takkanah (Hebrew: תקנה, romanized: taqqānā, plural takkanot) translated as 'improvement', is a major legislative enactment within halakha, the normative system of Judaism 's laws. A takkanah is an enactment which revises an ordinance that no longer satisfies the requirements of the times or circumstances, or which, being ...
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