Mind-Benders of Jewish History
The gentle Hillel taught under the fearsome Herod
The patient sage of "if I am not for myself, who will be for me?" and the paranoid king who rebuilt the Temple shared one city and one lifetime in Jerusalem.
How we know
Herod the Great reigned 37–4 BCE; Hillel the Elder (c. 110 BCE–10 CE) led the Sanhedrin in that same era, both in Herodian Jerusalem.
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