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JOHANAN BEN ZACCAI

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 431 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEN ZACCAI , Palestinian See also:rabbi, contemporary of the Apostles. He was a See also:disciple of See also:Hillel (q.v.), and after the-destruction of the See also:Temple of See also:Jerusalem by See also:Titus was the See also:main See also:instrument in the preservation of the Jewish See also:religion. During the last decades of the Temple Johanan was a member of the Sanhedrin and a skilled controversialist against the See also:Sadducees. He is also reported to have been See also:head of a See also:great school in the See also:capital. In the See also:war with See also:Rome he belonged to the See also:peace party, and finding that the Zealots were resolved on carrying their revolt to its inevitable sequel, Johanan had himself conveyed out of Jerusalem in a See also:coffin. In the See also:Roman See also:camp the rabbi was courteously received, and See also:Vespasian (whose future See also:elevation to the imperial dignity Johanan, like See also:Josephus, is said to have foretold) agreed to See also:grant him any boon he desired. Johanan obtained permission to found a See also:college at See also:Jamnia (Jabneh), which became the centre of Jewish culture. It practically exercised the judicial functions of the Sanhedrin (see See also:JEWS, § 40 ad fin.). That See also:chief See also:literary expression of Pharisaism, the Mishnah, was the outcome of the See also:work begun at Jamnia. Johanan solaced his disciples on the fall of the Temple by the See also:double thought that charity could replace See also:sacrifice, and that a See also:life devoted to the religious See also:law could See also:form a fitting continuation of the old theocratic See also:state. " Johanan See also:felt the fall of his See also:people more deeply than anyone else, but—and in this lies his See also:historical importance—he did spore than any one else to prepare the way for See also:Israel to rise again " (Bacher). See See also:Graetz, See also:History of the Jews (Eng. trans.), vol. ii. ch. xiii.; See also:Weiss, Dor dor ve-doreshav, ii.

36; Bacher, See also:

Die Agada der Tannaiten, vol. i. ch. iii. (I.

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