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The Ten Martyrs (Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת הָרוּגֵי מַלְכוּת ʿĂsereṯ Hārūgē Malḵūṯ, "The Ten Royal Martyrs") were ten rabbis living during the era of the Mishnah who were martyred by the Roman Empire in the period after the destruction of the Second Temple.
The penalty was execution for the ordainer and the new rabbis. Rabbi Judah ben Bava was killed by Hadrian 's soldiers at the age of seventy, and is known as one of the Ten Martyrs . Rabbi Judah ben Bava was caught by Hadrian's soldiers while ordaining his students Rabbi Meir , Rabbi Judah bar Ilai , R' Shimon bar Yochai , R' Jose ben Halafta ...
Martyrs of Otranto: 813 residents of the city of Otranto, Italy put to death in 1480 for refusing to convert to Islam. Saints of the Cristero War: 25 Catholic saints and martyrs who died in the Mexican Cristero War. Uganda Martyrs: 23 Anglican and 22 Catholic Christians executed on the orders of Mwanga II of Buganda between 1885 and 1887.
Martyrdom in Judaism is one of the main examples of Jews doing a kiddush Hashem, a Hebrew term which means "sanctification of the Name". [1] An example of this is public self-sacrifice in accordance with Jewish practice and identity, with the possibility of being killed for no other reason than being Jewish.
Benjamin of Tudela was shown his grave on the Shatt al-Arab, near the point where the Tigris flows into the Euphrates [21] According to another legend, he was at the time of his death in Babylon, as a courtier in the retinue of Artaxerxes. [22] In the selichah אלה אזכרה for the Tenth of Tevet, the date of Ezra's death is given as the ...
The New Jersey rabbi serving a decadeslong sentence in a 1994 murder-for-hire plot targeting his wife has died. Fred Neulander, 82, was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday at a hospital ...
Jews were forbidden entrance to Jerusalem on pain of death, except for the day of Tisha B'Av. There was a further shift of the center of religious authority from Yavne, as rabbis regrouped in Usha in the western Galilee, where the Mishnah was composed. This ban struck a blow at Jewish national identity within Palestine, while the Romans however ...
Joey Jordison, the a co-founder and former drummer for metal band Slipknot, has died at 46.