Акива, рабби

Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph AKA "Rosh la-Chachamim" (Head of all the Sages) AKA Akiva AKA Akiba around 40 CE – 137 CE Teachers: Eliezer ben Hyrkanus; inspired by Yochanan ben Zakai; Joshua ben Hananiah; Nahum Ish Gamzu ; Hillel ; Shammai; Simon of Peraea; Jesus of Nazareth; Athronges; Menahem ben Judah; Students: Simon bar Kokhba (Son of the Star); Nissim Gaon; Tarphon started as teacher, became pupil; Rabbi Meir Judah ben Ilai; Shimon bar Yochai aka The Yoshi; Jose ben Halafta; Eleazar ben Shammai; Rabbi Nehemiah; his son Simon; Philo; Moses ben Jacob Cordovero; Adolph Franck; Rev. Isidor kalisch, Dr. John Pistor; William Wynn Westcott; Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers; Prof. Charles S. Horne; A.E. Waite; Manly P. Hall; Irving Friedman (1977); Moses of Crete; Ishak ben Ya'kub Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani ; Serene; David Alroy; Nissim ben Abraham ; Moses Botarel of Cisneros; Asher Lämmlein; David Reubeni; Solomon Molcho;Sabbatai Zevi; Barukhia Russo (AKA Osman Baba) ; Jacob Querido; Abraham Miguel Cardoso AKA "Messiah ben Ephraim"; Moses Pinheiro; Judah Leib Prossnitz AKA Messiah ben Joseph; Jacob Frank; Baron Thomas von Schoenfeld; Gershom Scholem; Menachem Mendel Schneerson; Friends: Rabban Gamaliel II; Elisha ben Avuya; Eliezer ben Tzodok; Eleazar ben Azaria; Yehuda ben Betheira; Yochanan ben Nuri; Yosi Haglili; Rabbi Yishmael; Chanina ben Dosa; Enemies: the Romans flayed his skin off with an iron comb before the Community as punishment for the Bar Kokba revolt, and he sang the Shama prayer as they did until he died.; "Tyrannus Rufus", governor, under orders from Emperor Hadrian; Organizations: Spiritual leader of the Second Jewish Revolt against the Romans Author: attributed author of the Sepher Yetzirah, the Book of Formation Comments: Rabbi, martyr ;Qabalist;thought Bar Kokba might be the Jewish Messiah, come to free them from Rome, nicknamed the rebel as Kochva, "the star", rather than Kozieva, "A star has shot off Jacob" NUMBERS; Halakhah (Living the Faith) expert; God combines goodness and mercy with strict justice , "God rules the world in mercy, but according to the preponderance of good or bad in human acts; "Whatever God doeth He doeth for the best"; Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiva_ben_Joseph;