Jacob Berab
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Jacob Berab, also spelled Berav or Bei-Rav, known as Mahari Beirav, was an influential rabbi and talmudist best known for his attempt to reintroduce classical semikhah and the Sanhedrin.
Plaque outside the burial cave of Jacob Berab, Safed, Israel
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Sanhedrin
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The Sanhedrin was a Jewish legislative and judicial assembly in the ancient land of Israel.
Jacob Berab
…Beirav (1474 – April 3, 1546), was an influential rabbi and talmudist best known for his attempt to reintroduce classical semikhah (ordination) and the Sanhedrin. Berab was born at Maqueda near Toledo, Castilian Spain in 1474. He later became a pupil of Isaac Aboab. After the expulsion of Jews from Spain, he…
The Sanhedrin, from an 1883 encyclopedia
Galilee in late antiquity
Medallion struck in honor of the "Grand Sanhedrin" convened by Emperor Napoleon I of France. In the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
Inauguration of the Sanhedrin in 2004