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Akiba ben Joseph
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A·ki·ba ben Jo·seph  (ä-kbä bn jzf, -sf, -kv) a.d. 50?-132.
Jewish religious leader whose scholarship, particularly a reinterpretation of the Halakah, profoundly influenced Judaism.


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which stabilized the canon of the Hebrew Bible, the celebrated Rabbi Aqiba declared: ''The whole world is not worth the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel, for all the Scriptures are holy, but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies.
Aqiba disagree about the text of the blessing that follows Hallel.
 
 
 
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