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	Rabbi Yochanan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was considered, however, the greatest rabbi in the Land of Israel, and was even esteemed in the other center of Torah Jewry, Babylonia — so much so that after the deaths of Rav and Shmuel in Babylonia, Rabbi Yochanan was considered by Babylonian Jews as the greatest rabbi of the generation.
		Rabbi Yochanan compiled the Jerusalem Talmud from the collected wisdom of the Talmudic sages of the Land of Israel.
		Rabbi Yochanan's method in deciding halakha was to establish broad rules that apply in many cases; for example, he held that the halakha always follows a s'tam mishna (a mishna with no dispute or authorship attribution in it), and he had rules for which tanna ("Mishnah teacher") to follow in cases of dispute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rabbi_Yochanan (412 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE FAMILY ORCHARD by Nomi Eve
		Rabbi Yochanan Schine, a student of the famous Chatam Sofer, was engaged to Esther Sophie Goldner Herschell, the granddaughter of the chief rabbi of the British Empire.
		Yochanan called out to Esther but he was too far for her to hear and so he walked on and meant to call again, but then he found himself walking quietly, stealthily after his wife around a corner, and again, another corner, and then down the street and into an alley.
		Yochanan knew that he would not mention what he had seen to his wife but that she knew that he knew and that this was to be their secret.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375724575-excerpt.asp (3754 words)

	Judaism 101 - Rabbi Yochanan bar Nappacha - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
		Rabbi Yochanan bar Nappacha was an Amora who hailed from Eretz Yisrael.
		The Gemara there relates the encounter of Rabbi Yochanan with “Reish Lakish,” who was the leader of a troop of highway-men, and the latter was then bathing in the Yarden.
		One of the most beautiful teachings of Rabbi Yochanan is part of the Motzaei Shabbat Davening: “Rabbi Yochanan said, ‘Every time there is mention of the Might of the Holy One, Blessed is He, there is immediate mention of his humility.
	www.ou.org /about/judaism/nappacha.htm (304 words)

	Judaism 101: Sages and Scholars
		Rabbi Hillel was born to a wealthy family in Babylonia, but came to Jerusalem without the financial support of his family and supported himself as a woodcutter.
		Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was the youngest and most distinguished disciple of Rabbi Hillel (see above).
		Breslov is a town in the Ukraine where Rabbi Nachman spent the end of his life, but some say the name Breslov comes from the Hebrew bris lev, meaning "covenant of the heart." He emphasized living life with joy and happiness.
	www.jewfaq.org /sages.htm (1177 words)

	R' Yochanan ben Zakkai
		Rebbi Yochanan now got off his donkey, covered himself with his cloak, and sat down on a rock under a olive tree as his student began to expound on the deep secrets of Merkvah.
		It was said of Rebbi Yochanan ben Zakkai that in his entire life he never engaged in idle talk.; for the words of Torah were constantly on his lips.
		Rebbi Yochanan was of the opinion that armed resistance against the Romans was useless and the only chance for survival was to make peace with them.
	www.campsci.com /iguide/rebbi_yochanan_ben_zakkai.htm (1793 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rabbi Yochanan patiently began to explain the first point, assuming that Rav Kahana had not understood the first time.
		Rabbi Yochanan was stricken with grief, and his eyes bored into Rav Kahana.
		Rabbi Yochanan then asked Rav Kahana all the things that had puzzled him all his life, and Rav Kahana explained them all.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=1037 (5992 words)

	Jewish Professionals Institute (JPI) - Holocaust Thesis Chapter 6
		One day when Rabbi Nathan was expounding the Talmud and was unable to give a satisfactory explanation of the passage under discussion, Rabbi Moses promptly removed the difficulty and at the same time answered several questions which were submitted to him.
		Rabbi Kotler was therefore viewed as an embodiment of the flame of Jewish learning as it came over from Europe to America, and beyond, back to its original starting-point: the Land of Israel.
		Rabbi Gifter stresses that in an age of specialization there is a need to implant into the young minds and hearts of Day School children the dream of becoming a "Torah specialist".
	www.jpi.org /holocaust/hlchp6a.htm (8266 words)

	Jewish Law - Articles ("Cloning People and Jewish Law: A Preliminary Analysis")
		Rabbi J. David Bleich quotes an unpublished responsum from the late Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach to the effect that in those circumstances, the Jewish status of such a child is subject to doubt, and he or she should be converted.
		Rabbi Yasa states in the name of Rabbi Yochanan: "if [a creature] has a human body but its face is of an animal, it is not human; if [a creature] has an animal body, but its is face human, it is human.
		For example, Rabbi Moses Feinstein is of the opinion that for a woman to engage in artificial insemination with sperm other than her husband's, with her husband's consent, in order that she may have a child, in a situation in which the sperm donor is a gentile, is permissible.
	www.jlaw.com /Articles/cloning.html (11711 words)

	Florida Jewish Torah
		The Gemara in Brachot (20A) tells the story of Rabbi Yochanan who was a very handsome man. The Talmud describes how he would sit at the entrance of the Mikve (ritual bath) and as the women would leave they would pass by Rabbi Yochanan.
		Rabbi Yochanan explained that the women seeing his beauty while leaving the Mikveh would give them the merit of having children as beautiful as he.
		Rav Yochanan believed that if the women would see him before they would go home and be with their husbands that this could effect the outcome of the child.
	www.floridajewish.com /torah_display.asp?title=Vayeshev (463 words)

	Judaism 101 - Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
		Judaism 101 - Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
		Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was one of the great heroes of the Jewish People.
		That ability was based on the fact that it had in its possession the Torah, the Law of G-d, that could not be taken from them.
	www.ou.org /about/judaism/rabbis/zakkai.htm (287 words)

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		Rabbi Yochanan says that there are things that are so important, so central to Judaism that even regulations from the Torah can be uprooted in pursuit of them.
		And yet, Rabbi Moshe Isserles, the 16th century legal codifier whose commentary is printed as part of the main text of the Shulchan Aruch, sees things somewhat differently.
		Perhaps Rabbi Isserless had a friend or an acquaintance who loved someone who was sterile, and perhaps that helped him see the human beings effected by the law.
	www.keshetjts.org /sources/BrentSpodek.doc (1329 words)

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		Rabbi Yochanan, renowned not only for his scholarship but for his ethereal handsomeness, came to visit and found his ill colleague lying in a dark room.
		If it was for the Torah he hadn't been able to study -- Rabbi Yochanan reassured the bedridden sage -- that is no reason to cry; G-d judges people not by how much they accomplished but rather by whether they made their best effort.
		And, continued Rabbi Yochanan, if you are crying because of the death of your children, I have suffered more; ten of my own have perished.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /avi/shafran090602.asp (777 words)

	Singing in the Temple -- Professional Ethics Web Site
		Rabbi Yochanan, on the other hand, said, "Shira is only done over wine (the libations of the sacrifices)." Rabbi Yochanan is consistent.
		Rabbi Yochanan's approach in the first argument and Rabbi Meir's in the second both assume the Shira-sacrifice connection.
		Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Meir both presume the Shira-sacrifice connection, but one could hold like Rabbi Yochanan that Shira was only done with sacrifices but not like Rabbi Meir that the sacrifice is invalid without Shira.
	www.darchenoam.org /ethics/music/ar_shira.htm (1388 words)

	USCJ: Korah 5763
		Rabbi Yochanan was offended and Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish fell ill. Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish died and Rabbi Yochanan was very distressed.
		Rabbi Yochanan said to him: Do you think you are like the son of Lakisha (that you are a good substitute for him)?
		Rabbi Yochanan, for example, eventually died from despair because he lacked a "chevruta," a partner, to debate him.
	www.uscj.org /Korah_57636175.html (1228 words)

	RABBI WHO SAVED JUDAISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rabbi Yochanan Ben-Zakkai had his followers wrap him in a shroud.
		Rabbi Zakkai removed his shroud and asked for permission to travel to the town of Javne to study Jewish law.
		The rabbi and his followers journeyed to Javne where they would establish a form of Judaism without a Temple, without a state and without the Land of Israel.
	www.internetpuppets.org /jhsrabbi.html (222 words)

	In The Paths of Our Fathers: Chapter Two - Mishna 9
		When Rabbi Yehoshua was an infant, she would hang his cradle in the House of Study so that he would become accustomed to the sweet singsong of Torah study.
		Rabbi Eliezer, the "cemented cistern," represents the epitome of concentrated effort to absorb his teachers' wisdom.
		Rabbi Elazar, by contrast, by tapping the potential for personal initiative, showed how the fundamental truth of the Torah can be revealed in new and different settings.
	www.sichosinenglish.org /books/ethics/02-09.htm (1159 words)

	Talmudic University - Rabbi Yochanan Zweig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rabbi Zweig's Shiurim have recently been captured on audio and video tapes and are being reproduced as a series of powerful lectures called "Keren Ohr", which are now available to the public.
		Rabbi Zweig received his formal education from Johns Hopkins University and went on to pursue a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.
		In 1974 Rabbi Zweig moved to Miami Beach, FL and opened the Talmudic University of Florida/Yeshiva V'Kollel RaMaCh, Alfred and Sayde Swire College of Judaic Studies.
	www.talmudicu.edu /harav.htm (214 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rabbi Schonfeld told the tale of a gentile who approached the Talmudic-era sage Rabbi Yochanan and ridiculed the concept of the red heifer, which was used as a sin offering during the Temple period.
		Some rabbis felt that though they have gone on record against the war, it was not useful to criticize now that the battle has been joined.
		One signatory, Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia, noted in a statement that the Bush administration’s “shock and awe” bombing campaign to topple Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein “would be the worst violation” of Jewish and American values because of the potential for civilian casualties.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=7671&print=yes (1123 words)

	Divrei Mordechai - Shavuot 5761
		Rashi, in a short comment, explains that Rabbi Yochanan needed proof that Reish Lakish was sincere in his desire to embrace the Torah.
		After all, Rabbi Yochanan had offered Reish Lakish his sister's hand in marriage, and wanted to be sure that the bandit's intentions were pure.
		The fact that Reish Lakish could not leap out of the water was Rabbi Yochanan's proof: it showed him that Reish Lakish had wholeheartedly accepted the yoke of Torah.
	www.utj.org /Torah/mfriedfertig/Shavuot5761b.html (628 words)

	The Two Adams, Moriel Ministries
		There were two kinds of Pharisees: those who studied in the yeshiva of Rabbi Gamaliel, in what is known as ‘the School of Hillel,’ and the other was the ‘School of Shammai.’ In this school of Hillel, which was being run in Paul’s time by Rabbi Gamaliel, there were a number of very famous classmates.
		Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, the founder of Rabbinic Judaism was called "the mighty hammer" by his disciples.
		Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai admitted that he had no assurance of salvation.
	www.moriel.org /sermons/two_adams.htm (3771 words)

	The Joy of Life - Reward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rabbi Avahu said: If you see a person distributing his money to charity, know that his assets will increase, as it is said in Proverbs: (11, 24)
		Rabbi Yochanan came across the young child of Resh Lakish and asked him to repeat the verse he had been studying.
		Rabban Yochanan ben Zaccai saw a girl picking barley grains from the dung of Arab cattle.
	www.joyoflife.org.il /reward.shtml (614 words)

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		Similarly, Rabbi Yochanan commented that Noach remained somewhat skeptical with regard to God's warning about the flood, and only after the rain began to fall did he enter the ark (see Rashi to 7:7).
		Citing Rabbi Yochanan's opinion concerning the phrase, "blameless in his generations," Rashi writes, "Had he lived in the generation of Avraham, he would not have been considered anything." Meaning, compared to Avraham, Noach's achievements should not impress us.
		The ark, then, according to Rabbi Yochanan, accurately reflects the seclusion and isolation that characterized Noach's attitude towards the corruption of his age.
	www.vbm-torah.org /archive/salt-bereishit/02-8noach.htm (4994 words)

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		His view is challenged by Rabbi Yosef, who argues that even though one is not obligated to bring a sin- offering if he involuntarily performed borer on less than that amount, it is still forbidden to do so.
		There, Rabbi Yochanan rules that even if one eats less than an olive size of forbidden animal fat (an olive size is the amount which would obligate him to bring a sin-offering if he ate it involuntarily) he has still violated Torah law.
		Two approaches are suggested by the commentaries: Tosefos' view is that Rabbi Chisda holds that only when one separates a fig-sized amount is he considered to be doing any sort of creative labor on Shabbos, because less than that amount is considered a part of the normal process of eating which the Torah permitted.
	www.ohr.org.il /yomi/yomi209.txt (673 words)

	RavFrand List - Rabbi Frand on Parshas Vayeishev - Torah.org
		Rabbi Zev Leff quotes the following Talmudic incident [Brochos 28b]: When Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai was deathly ill, his students came in to visit him.
		Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai was told to make a wish and he would be granted whatever he wished.
		Now, as Rabbi Yochanan was about to die and he looked back over his lifetime, he recognized that the most crucial decision of his lifetime was his requests to the Roman general.
	www.torah.org /learning/ravfrand/5763/vayeishev.html (1612 words)

	Divrei Mordechai - Pirke Avot Chapter 3 5761 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the introduction to this topic, the Torah warns to be careful to tithe, but it uses strange wording, "Aser Te'aser" -- literally meaning "tithe, you shall tithe"" -- the entire crop of your planting, the produce of the field, every year (Devarim 14:22).
		Rabbi Yochanan explains that the peculiar, double expression of "Aser Te'aser - tithe, you shall tithe" was meant to imply that one who tithes his produce will be rewarded with the opportunity to give additional tithes -- that is, he will be blessed with increased prosperity.
		Rabbi Yochanan was teaching us that if we tithe, our profits will increase, not so we can buy more stuff, but so we can give more tzedakah, perform more mitzvot and perfect the world that much more.
	www.utj.org /Torah/mfriedfertig/PirkeiAvot5761c3.html (324 words)

	Tehilla - Eretz Yisrael Perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rabbi Yochanan lived at the termination of Jewish public life in Israel.
		With his demise, although there remained a physical presence of Jews in Israel, their contribution to the land was not felt until the growth of the Aliyah movement in the modern world.
		Before Rav Yochanan's passing, the Jews had a sense of pride as they walked the streets of the land.
	www.tehilla.com /midrash/cheshvan5762/perspectives.html (605 words)

	Congregation Shema Yisrael - The Security That Comes from Salvation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was one of the greatest non-Messianic rabbis of the first century.
		Yochanan wants us to know that we have eternal life, that we are eternally safe and secure, provided that we truly believe in the name (Person and Work) of the Son of God.
		Rabbi Paul adds that we will be presented to Messiah one day as a chaste pure virgin is presented to her husband (2 Corinthians 11:2).
	www.shema.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=115 (5966 words)

	Sin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One time, when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehoshua, they arrived at where the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins.
		"Woe to us" cried Rabbi Yehoshua, "for this house where atonement was made for Israel's sins now lies in ruins!" Answered Rabban Yochanan, "We have another, equally important source of atonement, the practice of gemilut hasadim (loving kindness), as it is stated 'I desire loving kindness and not sacrifice'".
		The Babylonian Talmud teaches that "Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Eleazar both explain that as long as the Temple stood, the altar atoned for Israel, but now, one's table atones [when the poor are invited as guests]." (Tractate Berachot, 55a.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sin (4493 words)

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