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He was just one of the Many Jewish sages. One thing that stands out is that he succeeded in getting Vespasian to spare some hundreds of the sages at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple.

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Yochanan ben Zakkai was one of the tanna'im, an important Jewish sage in the era of the Second Temple, and a primary contributor to the core text of Rabbinical Judaism, the Mishnah.

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What was a result of Yochanan Ben Zakkai meeting with Roman leaders?

he was arrested, escaped in a coffin , then started his own school for rabbis


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(Talmud, Gittin 56a) Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai didn't approve of the Zealots' plan to wage war with the Romans. The Zealots tried to force the hand of the Jerusalemites by burning the city's stockpiles of food (ibid.); and Rabban Yochanan feared that thousands would die in the famine which the city was plunged into. He decided to try to go and plead with the Romans to lift the siege; but the Zealots weren't letting anyone leave the city. For these reasons, Rabban Yohanan had to be smuggled out. He feigned death and was carried out in casket (ibid).


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(Talmud, Gittin 56a) Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai didn't approve of the Zealots' plan to wage war with the Romans. The Zealots tried to force the hand of the Jerusalemites by burning the city's stockpiles of food (ibid.); and Rabban Yochanan feared that thousands would die in the famine which the city was plunged into. He decided to try to go and plead with the Romans to lift the siege; but the Zealots weren't letting anyone leave the city. For these reasons, Rabban Yohanan had to be smuggled out. He feigned death and was carried out in casket (ibid).


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