Midrash for Sanhedrin 64:14

אלא אמר עולא הכי אמרינן יש לך עדים להזימם א"ל רבה וכי פותחין בזכותו של זה שהיא חובתו של זה

R. Akiba to Benai Berak,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One of the cities of the tribe of Dan (Josh. XIX, 45) identified with the modern Benai Berak, a flourishing Jewish Colony. ');">²⁵</span> R. Mathia to Rome,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [He left Palestine at the same time as Judah b. Bathyra and R. Hananiah, the nephew of R. Joshua b. Hananiah (v. infra) shortly before the Bar Kochba war, and making his way to Rome he there established a school, v. Bacher, AT., I, 380.] ');">²⁶</span>

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