Nero was emperor when the revolt that led to the Churban — and the rebuilding at Yavneh — broke out

The Great Revolt against Rome erupted in 66 CE, while Nero sat on the imperial throne. Those were the very years Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was trapped inside besieged Jerusalem — on his way to being smuggled out to found the academy at Yavneh that would preserve Torah scholarship for the next two thousand years.

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