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SIMON BEN YOHAI (2nd century A.D.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 131 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMON See also:BEN YOHAI (2nd See also:century A.D.)  , a Galilean See also:Rabbi, one of the most eminent disciples of Aqiba (q.v.) . His mastei was executed by See also:Hadrian, and See also:Simon's See also:anti-See also:Roman sentiments led to his own condemnation by See also:Varna c . 161 A.D . (according to See also:Graetz) . He escaped this See also:doom and dwelt for some years in a cavern . Emerging from concealment, Simon settled in See also:Tiberias and in other Galilean cities . He acquired a reputation as a worker of miracles, and on this ground was sent to See also:Rome as an See also:envoy, where (See also:legend tells) he exorcised from the See also:emperor's daughter a demon who had obligingly entered the See also:lady to enable Simon to effect his See also:miracle . This Rabbi See also:bore a large See also:part in the fixation of See also:law, and his decisions are frequently quoted . To him were attributed the important legal homilies called Sifre and Mekhilta (see MIDRASII), and above all the Zohar, the See also:Bible of the See also:Kabbalah (q.v.) . This latter ascription is altogether unfounded, the real author of this mystical commentary on the See also:Pentateuch being See also:Moses of See also:Leon (q.v.) . The fullest See also:account of Simon's teachings is to be found in W . Bacher's Agada der Tannaiten, ii. pp .

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