In this class I discuss the lives and teachings of the first two of the Ten Martyrs, killed by the Romans at the end of the Second Temple period.
The two great rabbis discussed in this class are Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, a fourth-generation descendant of Hillel, and Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha, the High Priest.
We compare how their stories are recorded in the Yom Kippur Mussaf service, the Midrash Eleh Ezkera, and how they are mentioned in the writings of Josephus.