Judah ha-Nasi, Hebrew for Judah the Prince, was a leader of the Jewish community of Roman Palestine, dated by tradition from 135 to 220 of the Common Era, who held the title nasi as president of the Sanhedrin. New World Encyclopedia describes him as best known as the chief redactor of the Mishnah, the collection of rabbinic opinions at the core of the Talmud, and says he kept cordial relations with Rome, so that conditions for the Jews of Palestine generally improved during his long patriarchate. His editing of the Mishnah marks the transition from the era of the Tannaim to the era of the early Talmudic commentators known as the Amoraim. He is entered here so the Mishnah and its tractates can be attributed to their traditional redactor.
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Life
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Source New World Encyclopedia: Judah haNasi (article)
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Family and education
His father, Shimon ben Gamliel II, had probably been at the fortress of Betar with Bar Kochba when it fell to the Romans, but he managed to escape the massacre (Gittin 58a; Sotah 49b).
Death and legacy
He was also discovered weeping during his last illness, because death was about to deprive him of the opportunity of studying the Torah and of fulfilling the commandments (Ket. 103b).
Family and education, historicity
Judah haNasi was born in 135 C.E.
Family and education, lifespan-start-year
Judah haNasi was born in 135 C.E.
Belongs to Tradition: Judaism, Compiler of the Mishnah
Judah's great fame in Jewish tradition, however, is not due to his political or juridical leadership nearly so much as it is to his great intellectual work of compiling and redacting the Mishnah , which in turn came to serve as the core teaching of the Talmud .
Revered In: Judaism, Compiler of the Mishnah
Judah's great fame in Jewish tradition, however, is not due to his political or juridical leadership nearly so much as it is to his great intellectual work of compiling and redacting the Mishnah , which in turn came to serve as the core teaching of the Talmud .
Attributed Works: Mishnah, Compiler of the Mishnah, first sentence
Judah's great fame in Jewish tradition, however, is not due to his political or juridical leadership nearly so much as it is to his great intellectual work of compiling and redacting the Mishnah , which in turn came to serve as the core teaching of the Talmud .
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Originated In: Judea, Lead paragraph, originated-inQuote, Originated In: Judea, Lead paragraph, originated-in
He was a key leader of the Jewish community in Roman-occupied Judea after the Bar Kokhba revolt.
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