The Jewish teacher Johanan ben Zakkai (active ca. AD 70) was the leading expounder of Jewish law of his time. He founded an important academy at Yavneh. Johanan ben Zakkai was the youngest among the numerous disciples of the great Hillel and also of...

YOḤANAN BEN ZAKKʾAI (c. 1–80 CE), sage and leader of Judaism in the Land of Israel after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. Known to us only from sources brought to closure two and more centuries after his death,...

(1st Century CE). *Sage. During the *Jewish War, Johanan ben Zakkai, the leading authority of his day, managed to leave the besieged city of *Jerusalem to join the existing *academy in *Jabneh. Under his leadership, the *bet din at Jabneh attained the...

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Johanan ben Zakai (Hebrew: יוחנן בן זכאי‎) was one of the tannaim (תנאים), an important Jewish sage in the era of the Second Temple, and a primary contributor to the core text of rabbinic Judaism, the Mishnah. During the siege of...

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