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(from Biblical times until 70 C.E.), the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) performed ... Prior to Yom Kippur, the Kohen Gadol was sequestered in the Parhedrin ...

much of the period, the office of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) was rented ... name, based on the Talmudic adage "Gadol miRabban shmo" ("Greater ...

Salome Alexandra or Alexandra of Jerusalem (139 – 67 B.C.E.) was the only Jewish regnant queen of the Hasmoneans, reigning from 75 B.C.E. until ...

#The Kohen Gadol 's breastplate must not be loosened from the Efod ... #The Kohen Gadol ("High Priest") must bring a meal offering ...

Alexander Jannaeus (also known as Alexander Jannai/Yannai) was king and high priest of Judea from (103 B.C.E. to 76 B.C.E.). His Hebrew name ...

Yochanan ben Zakai ( יוחנן בן זכאי , died 80-90 C.E.), also spelled Johanan b. Zakki, was an important rabbinical sage in the final ...

The Book of Jubilees (ספר היובלים), sometimes called the Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work that was ...

words, נס גדול היה שם, Nes Gadol Haya Sham—"A great ... the acronym, נס גדול היה פה, Nes Gadol Haya Po—"A great miracle ...

The Maccabees (Hebrew: מכבים or מקבים, Makabim) were Jewish rebels who fought against the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Hellenistic ...

and moral level as Israel's own Kohen Gadol (high priest) (Talmud, Bava Kamma 38a). Maimonides states in his work Mishneh Torah (The laws ...

history. Around 63-64 C.E. the Kohen Gadol (high priest) of Jerusalem, Yehoshua ben Gamla, not only insisted that a unified system of teaching ...

by the kohanim, the Israelite priests with the kohen gadol (High Priest) as their central figure. These services included song, prayer, offerings, and ...

tribes were recorded on the vestments of the Kohen Gadol (high priest). However, when the land of Israel was apportioned among the tribes in the days ...