יוסי בן יוחנן

Yose ben Yochanan
AK"H & Zugot · c. 410 BCE-10 CE

יוסי בן יוחנן איש ירושלים היה אב בית הדין הראשון מתקופת הזוגות. בן זוגו, נשיא הסנהדרין, היה יוסי בן יועזר.

Jose ben Jochanan was Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin in the 2nd century BCE. He was a native of Jerusalem. He and Jose ben Joezer were the successors and, it is said, the disciples of Antigonus of Sokho, and the two together formed the first of a series of duumvirates that transmitted the traditional law; according to tradition, in each pair one was the Nasi and the other was the Av Beit Din.

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Mishnah מִשְׁנָה

Talmud Bavli תַּלְמוּד בַּבְלִי

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