Commentary for Yoma 17:4

But the years of the wicked shall be shortened'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. X, 27. tku');">¹⁰</span> refers to the second Sanctuary, which abided for four hundred and twenty years and at which more than three hundred [high] priests served. Take off therefrom the forty years which Simeon the Righteous served,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Simeon the Just, High Priest Simon I, c. 300 b.c.e. ' v. Aboth, Sonc. ed., p. 2.');">¹²</span> eighty years which Johanan the high priest served,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' John Hyrcanus, the Hasmonean high priest (Jastrow) . V. Ber. He succeeded Simeon the Righteous as high priest (Bertinoro, Ma'as. Sh., 5, end) . After eighty years serving as high priest he became a Sadducee (Ber. 29a) . That makes it difficult to identify him with John Hyrcanus.');">¹³</span>

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