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Yohanan ben Zakkai (Hebrew: יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי, romanized: Yoḥānān ben Zakkay; 1st century CE), 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-destruction era.
Yochanan ben Zakkai was the youngest and most distinguished disciple of Rabbi Hillel. He has been called the "father of wisdom and the father of generations (of scholars)" because he ensured the continuation of Jewish scholarship after Jerusalem fell to Rome in 70 C.E.
The greatest Jewish sage of the time was Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai. He wisely foresaw that Jerusalem was doomed and understood the need to transplant the center of Torah scholarship to another location, to ensure the survival of Torah study after Jerusalem's destruction.
Johanan ben Zakkai (flourished 1st century ad) was a Palestinian Jewish sage, founder of an academy and an authoritative rabbinic body at Jamnia. He had a decisive influence on the continuance and development of traditional Judaism after the destruction of the Temple (ad 70).
Yochanan Ben Zakkai was a first-century CE disciple of Hillel. Yochanan took a prominent part in the controversies between the Pharisees, of which group he was leader, and the Sadducees.
JOHANAN BEN ZAKKAI (first century C.E.), tanna, considered in talmudic tradition the leading sage at the end of the Second Temple period and the years immediately following the destruction of the Temple. Johanan b.
The most important tanna in the last decade of the Second Temple, and, after the destruction of Jerusalem, the founder and first president of the academy at Jabneh. According to the theory formulated in the Mishnah (Ab. ii. 8), that traditions were handed down through an unbroken chain of scholars, Johanan, in receiving the teachings of Hillel ...
