רבי עקיבא Rabbi Akiva
Tanna · 2nd generation (c. 80–110 CE) — named 1,702 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Akiva, of the second tannaitic generation, is the root of the Oral Law as we hold it. He was an unlettered shepherd who began to learn at forty at his wife's urging, learned before Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya and Nachum Ish Gamzu, and became the teacher of the men who made the Mishnah — Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Yehuda, Rabbi Yose, Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Elazar ben Shamua and Rabbi Nechemya.
He expounded heaps of laws from the crowns on the letters, and the tradition says that the anonymous Mishnah, whoever states it, is Rabbi Akiva's at the root. Twenty-four thousand of his students died between Pesach and Shavuot because they did not treat one another with respect; he himself was put to death by Rome, and died reciting Shema at the word echad. He is named some seventeen hundred times.
The shepherd who began at forty; the root of the anonymous Mishnah.
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