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See also: Rabbi, one of the most eminent disciples of Aqiba (q.v.)
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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
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161 A.D
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(according to See also: Graetz)
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He escaped this doom and dwelt for some years in a cavern
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Emerging from concealment, Simon settled in See also: Tiberias and in other Galilean cities
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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 emperor's daughter a demon who had obligingly entered the lady to enable Simon to effect his miracle
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This Rabbi See also: bore a large See also: part in the fixation of See also: law, and his decisions are frequently quoted
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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 Kabbalah (q.v.)
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This latter ascription is altogether unfounded, the real author of this mystical commentary on the See also: Pentateuch being Moses of Leon (q.v.)
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The fullest account of Simon's teachings is to be found in W
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Bacher's Agada der Tannaiten, ii. pp
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