Yochanan Ben Zakkai

About Yochanan Ben Zakkai

[Wikidata] 1st-century rabbi and an important Jewish sage... | [Wikipedia] Yohanan ben Zakkai, sometimes abbreviated as ריב״ז ribaz for Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, was a tanna, an important Jewish sage during the late Second Temple period during the transformative post-destruction era. He was a primary contributor to the core text of Rabbinic Judaism, the Mishnah. His name i