• Abtalion (Hebrew: אַבְטַלְיוֹן ʾAḇṭalyōn) or Avtalyon (Modern Hebrew) was a rabbinic sage in the early pre-Mishnaic era. He was a leader of the Pharisees...
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  • time as Abtalion. They are known as one of the zugot ("couples"): Shemaiah and Abtalion; Shemaiah holding the title of nasi, whilst Abtalion holding the...
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    soon to offer the chief medium for the cultivation of Bible exegesis. Abtalion and Shemaiah are the first to bear the title darshan, and it was probably...
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  • Guard Vitrasius Pollio (died AD 32) Roman member of the equestrian class Abtalion, a leading rabbi in the 1st century BC, known as Pollion in Greek and Pollio...
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  • Shetach Judah ben Tabbai's students were the next Pharisee zugot, Shmaya and Abtalion. In Pirkei Avot, Judah ben Tabbai is quoted as saying: Do not act as an...
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  • referred to a professional sermonizer more broadly. The title was given to Abtalion and Shemaiah in the 1st century BCE. Since the 1990s, some branches of...
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    Hillel his contemporary, took on oversight of the Sanhedrin sometime after Abtalion and Shemayah relinquished power. Shammai's school of thought became known...
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  • Shetach, at the time of Alexander Jannaeus and Salome Alexandra Shmaya and Abtalion, at the time of Hyrcanus II Hillel the Elder and Shammai, at the time of...
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  • Preceded by Abtalion Av Beit Din Succeeded by Shammai...
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    Hillel had to overcome to gain admittance to the school of Sh'maya and Abtalion, and the hardships he suffered while pursuing his aim, are told in the...
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  • Islam' arrested". The Independent. 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2024-04-16. "ABTALION, POLLION - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. "SHEMAIAH...
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  • Later, the day of celebration was cancelled, since two great rabbis, Abtalion and Shemaiah, were known to have been executed some years earlier on the...
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  • Menologium at the end of the 19th century. It is possibly derived from Abtalion, or from a Greek word meaning a sanctuary, a temple. Superanskaya, p. 29...
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  • פיאבת‎) Made high priest by Herod the Great. Contemporary with Pollio (Abtalion) the teacher, and his disciple Sameas (Shamiah) Deprived of the high priesthood...
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  • translating much of the Tanakh into German, he published a Hebrew-German primer (Abtalion), commentaries, essays and the play Leichtsinn und Frömmelei (written in...
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    Jish with the nearby Jewish village of Dalton. The tombs of Shmaya and Abtalion, a pair of Jewish sages who taught in Jerusalem in the early 1st century...
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    based on Mishnah Eduyot 1:3 and on Maimonides' explanation there, where Abtalion and Shemaiah, two foreigners who converted to Judaism, could not pronounce...
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  • after it had become known that the day also marked a day of sadness, when Abtalion and Shamaiah were executed some years earlier on that very day.] "On the...
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    village was established in 1987 as a moshav shitufi, and was named after Abtalion, a rabbinic sage in the early pre-Mishnaic era. It was later converted...
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  • Menahem, Halafta (who died in his lifetime), and Eudemus. He exemplified Abtalion's dictum, "Love work"; for he was a tanner, a trade then commonly held in...
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  • where the former associate presidents of the Sanhedrin, Shemaiah and Abtalion, had the test made on a freed woman; whereupon Akabia disdainfully exclaimed...
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