The Talmud

Akavya Would Not Bend

Argument 4, the border between conviction and stubbornness

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Hillel and Shammai split school against school. This story sets one man against everyone.

Rabbi Akavya ben Mahalalel left his name in the Mishnah. It is the story of the conviction he held for a lifetime, and of handing that conviction down differently.

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