Simeon ben Gamliel II
Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel II (also: Simon, also: Shimon, also. Gamliel II, Hebrew רבן שמעון בן גמליאל, in the Patriarch count = Simeon III, * 100, † after 160 ) was a Jewish scholar of antiquity, is counted among the Tannaim of the 3rd generation and had about 135-165 of held the patriarchate.
He was the son of Gamaliel II in his youth, as the Bar Kochba revolt broke out, Simeon was in Betar, at the capture of the fortress by the Romans, he managed to escape the massacre. After Hadrian's death, he was around 140 in Usha - the place there Yavneh newly founded by students of Akiba center of the rabbinate - Chairman ( Nassi ) of the Sanhedrin again formed in imitation of his father. Simeon's deputy was the son of exilarch, Natan of the Babylonians, the Simeon temporarily made the chairmanship dispute or - ultimately unsuccessful - whose abdication wanted to force.
During the Patriarchate of Shimon ben Gamaliel II, the Jewish people has been the subject of various persecutions and humiliations. This prompted the patriarch to the following remark ( Shir ha - Schirim Rabbah III, 3):
" Our forefathers knew the suffering only from a distance, but we are already in so many days, months and years, these objectives that we have acquired more than this one right to be impatient. "
Simeon Halachot consider the practicality of the rules and discard an unconditional validity of the same, instead calling for a modification as the case requires. Also, the common law is with him in high esteem. The safeguarding of the interests and dignity of women and slaves were of particular concern to him.
After Simeon the general welfare is so important that in case of doubt the wellbeing of individuals must withdraw behind it.
In the Sayings of the Fathers, the following sentence is handed down from him: " On three things the world is based: on the right, the truth and peace " (I, 18).
According to tradition, Simeon is buried in Kfar Manda in Lower Galilee.
Simeon ben Gamaliel II was the father of Judah ha - Nasi.