Yohanan ben Zakkai
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Yohanan ben Zakkai, sometimes abbreviated as ריב״ז ribaz for Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, was a tanna, an important Jewish sage during the late Second Temple period during the transformative post-destruc
Johanan ben Zakai on the Knesset Menorah
Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue wall painting
Gamaliel
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Gamaliel the Elder, or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century AD. He was the son of Simeon ben Hillel and grandson of the great Jewish teacher Hillel th
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…the Temple would soon be destroyed. In return, Vespasian granted Yochanan three wishes: the salvation of Yavne and its sages and the descendants of Rabban Gamliel, who was of the Davidic line, and a physician to treat Rabbi Zadok, who had fasted for 40 years to stave off the destruction of Jerusalem. Upon the…
Gamaliel depicted in a medieval miniature
Rabban Gamaliel (רבן גמליﭏ)
Statue of Gamaliel in the Chapelle Saint-Nicodème de Pluméliau.
Gamaliel appearing to the priest Lucianus in a dream. 15th-century painting.