Rabbi Akiva

Akiva ben Yosef (Hebrew: עקיבא בן יוסף‎‎‎, c. 50 – c. 132 CE), widely known as Rabbi Akiva (רבי עקיבא‎), was a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second century (the third tannaitic generation). Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and to Midrash halakha. He is referred to in the Talmud as Rosh la-Hakhamim "Chief of the Sages". He was executed by the Romans in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt.

Akiva ben Yosef (written עקיבא‎ in the Babylonian Talmud and עקיבה‎ in the Jerusalem Talmud) came of humble parentage. When he married the daughter of Kalba Savu'a, a wealthy citizen of Jerusalem, Akiva was an uneducated shepherd in Kalba Savua's employ. His wife's first name is not given in the earlier sources, but a later version of the tradition gives it as Rachel. She stood loyally by her husband during that critical period of his life in which Akiva dedicated himself to the study of Torah. Rabbi Akiva has many famous quotes in the Babylonian Talmud.

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