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    Hillel (Hebrew: הִלֵּל Hīllēl; variously called Hillel the Elder, Hillel the Great, or Hillel the Babylonian; died c. 10 CE) was a Jewish religious leader...
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  • Hillel II (Hebrew: הלל נשיאה, Hillel the Nasi), also known simply as Hillel, was an amora of the fifth generation in the Land of Israel. He held the office...
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    Gamaliel (redirect from Gamaliel the Elder)
    authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE. He was the son of Simeon ben Hillel and grandson of the great Jewish teacher Hillel the Elder. He fathered...
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  • Hillel (Hebrew: הלל, lit. 'praise') is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: Hillel the Elder (110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage...
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  • ben Hillel was the son of Hillel the Elder. Little is known about him. When Hillel died, Shimon may have taken over his place as the Nasi of the Sanhedrin...
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  • Simeon ben Gamliel (category People executed by the Roman Empire)
    in the same office after his father's death in 50 AD and just before the destruction of the Second Temple. The great-grandson of Hillel the Elder, he...
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  • was given to the nasi starting with Gamaliel the Elder. The title rabban was restricted in usage to the descendants of Hillel the Elder, the sole exception...
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    After the time of Hillel the Elder (late 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE), the Nasi was almost invariably a descendant of Hillel. The second...
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  • Shmaya (tanna) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    1958], p. 53), unlike the opinion of others who thought that Pollion was to be identified with Hillel the Elder (see Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal...
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  • Deuteronomy. The rabbis, under the suggestion of Hillel the Elder, created a loophole in Jewish law, in which a legal document would accompany the interest-free...
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