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Akiba (uh-KEE-buh)=One of the greatest rabbis recorded in the Talmud.

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Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph (50-135 C.E.)

A poor, semi-literate shepherd, Akiba became one of Judaism’s greatest scholars. He developed the exegetical method of the Mishnah, linking each traditional practice to a basis in the biblical text, and systematized the material that later became the Mishnah.

Rabbi Akiba was active in the Bar Kokhba rebellion against Rome, 132-135 C.E.. He believed that Bar Kokhba was the Mashiach, though some other rabbis openly ridiculed him for that belief (the Talmud records another rabbi as saying, “Akiba, grass will grow in your cheeks and still the son of David will not have come”.) When the Bar Kokhba rebellion failed, Rabbi Akiba was taken by the Roman authorities and tortured to death.

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