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	Joseph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Rabban was an eighth century Indian Jewish leader.
		The Tribe of Joseph, named after Joseph, son of Jacob, consists of the Tribe of Ephraim and the Tribe of Manasseh.
		Joseph is a given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, asיוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, and Tiberian Hebrew Yôsēp̄.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph (329 words)

	Thunder from Sinai: Chapter 2, Mishna 1, Essay 28
		Rebbe Yehuda Hanasi, the Prince, is described by Rabbi Joseph Hertz in his commentary on Pirkei Avos, in the following manner: ".....the son of Rabban Shimon Hasheni (the 2nd) and a descendant of Hillel in the seventh generation..born in 135 C.E. on the day the Romans martyred Rabbi Akiva.
		So great was the esteem of his uncommon ability, wide culture and lofty character secured for Rebbe Yehuda Hanasi, that he was known simply as "Rebbe" or "our holy Master"..." [Daily Prayer Book, (p 628) by the late Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Joseph H. Hertz.
		He was the learned patrician, possessed of great wealth, enjoying the friendship of members of the Imperial House In his day the dignity of the Patriarch of Palestine was little short of that of an actual monarch.
	www.messiahtruth.com /mishna28.html (950 words)

	Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: [HM] Indian mathematics (was: James Gregory and Brook Taylor)
		Cheramal Perumal, King of Malabar, to Isupu Irabban (Joseph Rabban),
		(Delmedigo shows that their motion is similar to that of the Earth); on
		The earliest tract of the Cochin Jews is to be found in...a charter given by
	sunsite.utk.edu /math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/jan99/0183.html (950 words)

	Diaspora
		1000 CE by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		The grant was engraved on a set of copper plates, extant to this day, which forms a charter of royal privileges for Kerala's Jews.
		A locale on the Malabar Coast of southern India.
	www.hostkingdom.net /Diaspora.html (950 words)

	Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
		The Monk of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China; or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe and Markos who as Yahbh-Allaha III Became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church.
		The History of the Suez Canal [At USC]
		This Risala is of great value as a history, although it is clear in some places that inaccuracies and Ibn Fadlan's own prejudices have slanted the account to some extent.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/islam/islamsbook.html (950 words)

	Heritage
		Abba Sikara, the head of the rebels of Jerusalem, was the nephew of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai.
		[Vespasian] said to [Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai], "If there is a jug of honey and a serpent is coiled upon it, "do they not break the jug in order to kill the snake?" [Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai] was silent.
		Rabbi Joseph, and some say Rabbi Akiva, applied this verse to him: "He sends sages backward and confuses their minds" (Is. 44:25).
	www.pbs.org /wnet/heritage/episode2/documents/documents_17.html (801 words)

	Dawn R. Schuman Institute of the Community Foundation for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago
		Rabban Shimon was captured by the Romans, and, along with Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha, the Cohen Gadol (the High Priest), was put to death for his "crimes".
		Rabban Shimon begged the executioner to execute him first so he would not have to witness the death of the high priest (Rabbi Ishmael); similarly, Rabbi Ishmael requested that he be executed first so he should not have to witness the death of an ancestor of King David and Hillel (Rabban Shimon).
		It was a time of such stress that it was frequent for brother to turn against brother (this was the time of Joseph ben Mattityahu, a Jewish general, who abandoned his people and became the Roman, Josephus Flavius, the great historian of that era.
	www.dawnschuman.org /online_classes/mishnayot/layfer-mishna1-17.jsp (801 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		Joseph Azar and his brother both escaped to Cochin, where they established a new Jewish community.
		An important Sultanate in north-central India; significant as (at times) a large imperial state acting as a buffer between Mongol and Timurid aggression toward the rest of India.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (801 words)

	Assyria
		His learning was so eminent, and his character so revered, that he is one of the seven who alone among Jewish doctors have been honored with the title of “Rabban.”
		Yet Nicodemus and Joseph declared themselves the friends of Christ, which Gamaliel never did.
		Hillel was the father of Simeon, and Simeon the father of Gamaliel.
	www.realtime.net /~wdoud/topics/gamaliel.html (627 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		The company quickly became enmeshed in conflict with the Dutch East India Company, and were driven out of Indonesia by them, while gaining a strong foothold in India.
		Calcutta was retaken by the British East India Company in January of 1757.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		The grant was engraved on a set of copper plates, extant to this day, which forms a charter of royal privileges for Kerala's Jews.
		A "pocket principality" in Cranganore, on the Malabar Coast of southern India.
	kuja.ellone-loire.net /obsidian/india.html (2722 words)

	The Jews of Africa -- Other Dispersed Jewish Communities
		Their sprawling Jewish community consolidated the town of Cranganore in about 1000 when the local Hindu leader granted control of the region to a Jew named Joseph Rabban.
	www.mindspring.com /~jaypsand/dispersed.htm (2722 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		A "pocket principality" in Cranganore, on the Malabar Coast of southern India.
		Ceylon and the Maldive Islands are located on a separate page.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		The grant was engraved on a set of copper plates, extant to this day, which forms a charter of royal privileges for Kerala's Jews.
		A "pocket principality" in Cranganore, on the Malabar Coast of southern India.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

	culture
		A Christian community still lived in Malabar, and in the 10th century the king of the Cheras granted land to Joseph Rabban for a Jewish community in India.
		In the early 8th century the Chalukyas gave refuge to Zarathustrians called Parsis, who had been driven out of Persia by Muslims.
	narasimhan.com /SK/Culture/culture_history/culture_hist_gupta2.htm (2722 words)

	Cochin Jews
		The origins of the Cochin Jews are obscure although their history can be traced as far back as the 10th century CE when the king of Malabar granted certain rights and privileges to a Jew named Joseph Rabban.
		The Cochin Jews showed their support for the Zionist movement in a letter sent to Theodor Herzl in 1901, and since 1948 the majority have emigrated to Israel.
		Distinctive features of Cochin Jewish worship include circumcision ceremonies at public worship, the wearing of clothes of a special colour for each festival, and the distribution of grapes soaked in sweet-smelling myrtle leaves on certain festive occasions.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/judaism/cochin.html (454 words)

	Torch Songs
		Rabbi Henokh Zundel ben Joseph interpreted the juggling as a celebration of the Torah.
		The Talmud provides specific details, informing us that the Patriarch Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel was accustomed to take hold of as many as eight torches, which he would fling into the air, catching them one at a time, without their ever colliding.
		The juggling of eggs or wine-cups likewise conveys the idea that, although there might be eight separate disciplines, in a profound sense they are as alike as eggs or drops of a liquid, since they all derive from the same divine source.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/020919_TorchSong.html (971 words)

	Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
		Joseph A. Schumpeter: The Sociology of Imperialism, 1918
		The Monk of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China; or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe and Markos who as Yahbh-Allaha III Became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church.
		Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese cultures are not comprehensible without taking into account power of Chinese culture in art, literature and religion.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html (4483 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Chaldean Christians
		Joseph (V) Augustine Hindi succeeded (1779-1826) with the title of Archbishop and Administrator of the Chaldean Patriarchate of the Province of Diarbekir, for the Diocese of Mosul he had as auxiliary the priest George of Alkosch.
		The Catholic Chaldean Clergy number 248 priests; they are assisted by the religious of the Congregation of St. Hormizd (Rabban-Hormizd) who number about one hundred.
		The united Chaldeans soon chose as his successor Abdisho', the Metropolitan of Djeziret ibn-Omar (Beit-Zabdai'), who went to Rome (1562) during the pontificate of Pius IV, received there the pallium, and was invited to assist at the Council of Trent.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03559a.htm (4483 words)

	Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
		Joseph A. Schumpeter: The Sociology of Imperialism, 1918
		The Monk of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China; or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe and Markos who as Yahbh-Allaha III Became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church.
		Massively larger than any of her neighbors, China may have developed its cultural forms in relative isolation, but since the advent of Buddhism has both absorbed outside influences and disseminated its own culture.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html (4483 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		The grant was engraved on a set of copper plates, extant to this day, which forms a charter of royal privileges for Kerala's Jews.
		A "pocket principality" in Cranganore, on the Malabar Coast of southern India.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2764 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		The grant was engraved on a set of copper plates, extant to this day, which forms a charter of royal privileges for Kerala's Jews.
		A "pocket principality" in Cranganore, on the Malabar Coast of southern India.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2764 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		The grant was engraved on a set of copper plates, extant to this day, which forms a charter of royal privileges for Kerala's Jews.
		A "pocket principality" in Cranganore, on the Malabar Coast of southern India.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		The grant was engraved on a set of copper plates, extant to this day, which forms a charter of royal privileges for Kerala's Jews.
		A "pocket principality" in Cranganore, on the Malabar Coast of southern India.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		Modern India, while not covering all the territory of its predecessor, is nevertheless a powerful and influential state, not only in Asia but in the world at large.
		Expanding it's power in India over the course of the 18th century, the peak of it's authority was reached between 1757-1773.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		Modern India, while not covering all the territory of its predecessor, is nevertheless a powerful and influential state, not only in Asia but in the world at large.
		Expanding it's power in India over the course of the 18th century, the peak of it's authority was reached between 1757-1773.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

	Kulanu: Jews of India
		The ruler Cheruman Perumal granted certain royal prerogatives to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the Jewish community, in Cranganore and the Jews believe they ruled there for hundreds of years.
		The Paradesi synagogue is the oldest active synagogue in the commonwealth.
		Jews were always able to worship openly and were favored by the the Maharajas of Cochin.
	www.kulanu.org /india/jews_of_india.html (2722 words)

	In Kochi, 15 Jews waited for Sharon
		The inscription says Bhaskara Ravi Varma, a fourth century Hindu ruler of Malabar, granted living privileges to a group of Jews led by one Joseph Rabban.
		Jew community in kochi is at the brim of extinction.
		Jews settlers in Kochi hv missed a great oppurtunity to see a the prime minister of Israel during his visit to India.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/08sharon4.htm (2722 words)

	Cochin Jews
		The origins of the Cochin Jews are obscure although their history can be traced as far back as the 10th century CE when the king of Malabar granted certain rights and privileges to a Jew named Joseph Rabban.
		Two of these have their own distinct communities and synagogues: the "Black Jews" are physically similar to the local Indian population and presumably descended from the earliest Jewish settlement; the "White Jews" (or Paradesi "foreigners") are a mixed community mostly of European and Middle Eastern origin.
		White Jews, who came mainly from the professional and merchant classes, were full members; Black Jews who were mostly tradesemen and craftsmen, could pray there but were not eligible for membership; and the Meshuhrarim sat on the floor or on the steps outside.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/judaism/cochin.html (2722 words)

	Greater India
		Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
		Modern India, while not covering all the territory of its predecessor, is nevertheless a powerful and influential state, not only in Asia but in the world at large.
		Expanding it's power in India over the course of the 18th century, the peak of it's authority was reached between 1757-1773.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

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