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The Talmudical Academy (TA), as it was originally called, was founded in 1916 by Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel.He had become president of the institution that was to become Yeshiva University a year earlier, in 1915, when the "Rabbinical College of America" (a short-lived name) had been formed from the merger of two older schools, an elementary school founded in 1886 and a rabbinical seminary ...
Shimon bar Yochai (Zoharic Aramaic: שמעון בר יוחאי, Šimʿon bar Yoḥay) or Shimon ben Yochai (Mishnaic Hebrew: שמעון בן יוחאי), [note 1] also known by the acronym Rashbi, [note 2] was a 2nd-century tanna or sage of the period of Roman Judaea and early Syria Palaestina. He was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi ...
In Jorge Luis Borges 's story "Three Versions of Judas", the narrator mentions that Simeon ben Azzai saw the Garden of Eden and died. In Milton Steinberg 's novel As a Driven Leaf, Ben Azzai partakes in Elisha Ben Abuyah 's research project to reconcile Jewish faith with other wisdom traditions. He dies in a state of rapture during the peak of ...
Rabbi Akiva. Akiva ben Joseph ( Mishnaic Hebrew: עֲקִיבָא בֶּן יוֹסֵף, ʿĂqīḇāʾ ben Yōsēp̄; c. 50 – 28 September 135 CE ), [1] also known as Rabbi Akiva ( רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא ), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second. Rabbi ...
Shimon ben Lakish ( Hebrew: שמעון בן לקיש; Imperial Aramaic: שמעון בר לקיש Shim‘on bar Lakish or bar Lakisha ), better known by his nickname Reish Lakish (c. 200 — c. 275), was an amora who lived in the Roman province of Judaea in the third century. He was reputedly born in Bosra, east of the Jordan River, around 200 ...
The tomb of Shimon bar Yochai ( Hebrew: קבר רבי שמעון בר יוחאי ), or Kever Rashbi ( קבר רשב״י ), on Mount Meron is the traditional burial place of the 2nd-century Mishnaic rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. A place of pilgrimage since the late 15th century, [2] it is today the second-most-visited Jewish site in the world after ...
Simeon ben Zoma. Simeon ben Zoma, also known as Simon ben Zoma, Shimon ben Zoma or simply Ben Zoma ( Hebrew: בן זומא ), was a tanna of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. His name is used without the title "Rabbi" because, like Ben Azzai, he died at a young age, remaining in the grade of "pupil" and never receiving semikhah (rabbinical ordination).
Rabbi Shimon bar Yehotzadak (I) He was a teacher of Rabbi Yochanan, [1] who quotes many laws in his name. [2] He was a kohen; when he died in Lod, his brother Yochanan visited from the Galilee. [3] R' Yochanan was present at Shimon's death. [4]