[Avodah] Ben Beserah

[Eli Turkel]

Hillel was handed the title by the benei Beseira. That would make R'
Yehudah ben Beseira old enough to have been a leading figure in the
Sanhedrin at the time Hillel returned to EY. The churban was a century
later (Shabbos 15a) -- Hillel, R Shim'on, R Gamliel haZaqein, R
Shim'on ben Gamliel, and R' Yochanan ben Zakkai.>>

There were several different people called Ben Beserah.
Historians debate whether they were from an extended family
or perhaps this was just a title. There is no connection between
the one in the days of Hillel and the later one in Nesivin outside
of Israel

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Eli Turkel
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