[Avodah] What Was R Akiva doing & Thinking whilst this plague decimated his Talmidim

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 03:47:19PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: meir rabi meirabi at gmail.com
:> What Was R Akiva doing & Thinking whilst this plague decimated his Talmidim

: As per historians?
: Fighting Rome

As I noted about a month back, R' Hai Gaon also translated "askera"
(Yevamos 62b) as "sicarii" (sing: sicarius), a kind of dagger used by a
lower rank of Roman soldier.

So, it's not just the historians.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha