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It is told of Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakai, the greatest of the rabbis and leader of the Jews during the Great Revolt against the Romans in 66–73 C.E., that his explorations went well beyond studying texts, to include “constellations and calculations, the sayings of launderers and the sayings of fox-keepers, the conversation of demons and the conversation of palm-trees, the conversation of the ministering angels, the great things and the little things.”
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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The connection between property and spirit was most vividly expressed by Rabbi Yohanan, who declared that “anyone who steals a shave pruta that is, the smallest possible unit of value from his friend, it is as though he has taken his soul from him.”
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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Rabbi Yohanan says that one must not walk after a niddah and crush the earth on which she walked, as it is impure like a corpse.
Baraita de-Niddah. 2009
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The daughter of Yohanan the High Priest was a very beautiful maiden and the cruel king requested that she lie with him.
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Yohanan Ben Zakkai was the leader of the Jewish community during the time following the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, when the Jewish government was transferred to Jamnia, some thirty miles west of Jerusalem.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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In her epic poem, One, the poet Anda Amir conveyed the impression made on her by the Omer Festival at Ramat Yohanan: “He will announce: this hour a covenant is made between the people of labor and the blessing of the earth.”
Leah Bergstein. 2009
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Yohanan Ben Zakkai was the leader of the Jewish community during the time following the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, when the Jewish government was transferred to Jamnia, some thirty miles west of Jerusalem.
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Did he protect your teacher Yohanan, who denied his lips to the daughter of Herodias?
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But you, Rabbi, he says earnestly, as if trying to convince himself -- you are a holy man, like your teacher Yohanan.
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Look what happened to Yohanan, the fishmonger says.
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