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Akiva: Life, Legend, Legacy. Author Reuven Hammer. Language English, Hebrew. Publication year 2017. ISBN English Hardcover; 9780827612150 Hebrew: 9789655644210. Publisher Jewish Publication Society. The legendary Akiva ben Yosef has fascinated Jews for centuries. One of and arguably the most important of the Tannaim, or early Jewish sages, he ...
Rabbi Akiva himself suffered a terrible fate at the hands of the Romans. He was arrested and tortured to death, dying as a martyr. But he has remained the symbol of Jewish optimism throughout the ages of exile and despair. His faith in a better tomorrow for Jews and humanity, his upbeat outlook on life in spite of all adversities, never wavered.
Rabbi Akiva was a master teacher, and a key link in the oral tradition stretching back all the way to Moses —so much so that the Talmud relates that whenever we encounter an anonymous statement in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Sifra or Sifri, it is one of Rabbi Akiva’s (new) students recounting a teaching that he heard from Rabbi Akiva.6
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The Laughter of Rabbi Akiva. Again it happened that Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria, Rabbi Joshua and Rabbi Akiva went up to Jerusalem. When they reached Mt. Scopus, they tore their garments. When they reached the Temple Mount, they saw a fox emerging from the place of the Holy of Holies. The others started weeping; Rabbi Akiva laughed.
AKIVA. AKIVA (c. 50–135 c.e.), one of the most outstanding tannaim, probably the foremost scholar of his age. A teacher and martyr, he exercised a decisive influence in the development of the halakhah. A history of Akiva's scholarly activities – his relations to his teachers, R. Eliezer b.
Akiva ben Yosef ( Hebrew: עקיבא בן יוסף , c. 40 – c. 137 CE), widely known as Rabbi Akiva ( רבי עקיבא ), was a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second century (the third tannaitic generation). Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and to Midrash halakha.
