<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-size:12.8px">Well, *the* YKG, who becomes the poster child for not trusting oneself</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">until the day of death, might not be the best complement.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Also, he became a tzeduqi before passing the baton. Which means it has</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">to be someone who lived during or after after the Tzadoq who was the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">student of Antignos ish Socho. (A 2nd Tzadoq in the same conversation.)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">It doesn't leave us much room to place him well before Matisyahu.>></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">As I previously brought down 3 possibilities are mentioned in the </span>miforshim<span style="font-size:12.8px">. Using Micha's reasoning</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">and since the high priests after the time of Matisyahu are well known it would seem the only possibility of John Hyrcanus. <br clear="all"></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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