Related%20passage for Yoma 17:5

ושנות רשעים תקצרנה זה מקדש שני שעמד ד' מאות ועשרים שנה ושמשו בו יותר משלש מאות כהנים צא מהם מ' שנה ששמש שמעון הצדיק ושמונים ששמש יוחנן כהן גדול עשר ששמש ישמעאל בן פאבי ואמרי לה י"א ששמש ר' אלעזר בן חרסום מכאן ואילך צא וחשוב כל אחד ואחד לא הוציא שנתו

ten, which Ishmael B'Fabi<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Tosef. cf. Yoma 1. [High priest in the days of Agrippa II. He is not to be confused with the high priest of the same name who is reported by Josephus (Wars VI 2, 2) to have been executed in Cyrene after the destruction of the Temple. V. Buchler. op. cit. p. 98.]');">¹⁴</span> served, or, as some say, the eleven years of R'Eleazar B'Harsum.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. ibid. I. The Tosef. reads Harsoth. In Yoma ');">¹⁵</span> Count [the number of high priests] from then on and you will find that none of them completed his year [in office].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Bah, in his marginal notes, inserts on the basis of text on parallel passages the following interpolation here: R, Johanan b. Torta said: 'And why all that? Because they bought the priestly office for money, for R. Assi reported that Martha, the daughter of Boethus, brought King Jannai two kabful of denars to nominate Joshua b. Gamala as one of the high priests. And R. Johanan b. Torta said (further) . The same statement is made, infra 18a, in the name of R. Assi.');">¹⁶</span> R'Johanan B'Torta<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An interesting account of Torta is given in the Pesik. Rab. XIV: (tortah being taken as the feminine of tora, hence cow. It occurs in this form in the Targum Num. XIX, 2.) He said: If a cow that has no speech and no mind, recognized her Creator, should I, whom my Maker created in His image, not go and acknowledge Him. He became a Jew, studied, grew efficient in the Torah and they named him Johanan b. Torta.');">¹⁷</span>

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