He was a sage in the end of the second temple era. He started a school for biblical studies in the town of Yavneh. If you need information for a report or something, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochanan_ben_Zakai <Copy and paste into URL bar> I hope this helped. Maybe somebody can improve my answer.
Uncle Ben from the uncle Ben Rice, where was he born?
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The answer that you're looking for is "Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai."However, there is a mistake in your question and its perceived answer. Rabbi Johanan did not found the Torah-academy in Yavneh. Rather, it had already existed, and he bolstered it with hundreds of additional disciples.See also the Related Links.Link: How did Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakkai save JudaismLink: Timeline of Jewish history
Answer 1Generally speaking, English-language bibles translate the names of the characters in the Bible stores to their generally-accepted English equivalents.Yohanan ben Zaccaiwould appear in most Bibles asJohn the BaptistHe can be found in all four of the Gospels.Answer 2Most Jews and Historians do not believe Yohanan ben Zakkai and John the Baptist are analogous persons. Yohanan ben Zakkai was a Jewish Rabbi who negotiated with Vespasian to preserve the Jewish Religious Authorities at Yavne during the Roman Siege of Jerusalem. John the Baptist was a simple, but intelligent man who took it upon himself to baptize people, as was Jewish custom in those days.
He didn't. All he did was found a yeshiva (Torah-academy), the likes of which had existed earlier also.
This answer I saw is unfortunately complete nonsense: "He died aproximately 100 years before the destruction of the second Bais ha'mikdosh" Bais Hamikdosh is the Ashkenazic pronunciation of Bet Hamikdash, meaning the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. Yohanan Ben Zakkai was a commander in the defence of the Temple in the siege against the Romans. He established the Yavneh Generation, "Dor Yavneh", founding the first official school of Rabbinic Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism teaches life based on interpretations of the Torah in the Mishnah and Talmud - all the works of Scholars and Rabbis, but none of which is considered Divine, which Torah is. Rabbi Yohanan died in Yavneh probably a few years after 100 CE/AD
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Yohanan Levi was born in 1901.
Yohanan Cohen was born in 1917.
(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).
Yohanan Simon was born on 1905-11-03.
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