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The article says: "Rabban was a higher title then Rabbi, given to the Nasi starting with Rabban Gamliel Hazaken with the sole exception of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai".

But the article shows Yochanan ben Zakkai as a Nasi, and as being later than Gamliel Hazaken. So how is this an exception?

Perhaps what is meant is that, with the sole exception of Yochanan ben Zakkai, "Rabban" is confined to those Nesiim who are descended from Hillel. (For example, Rabban Gamliel once had to step down in favour of Rabbi Eleazar, but the latter did not become "Rabban Eleazar".) --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 09:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Compilers of the Mishnah

The article lists six rabbis as compilers of the Mishnah, five of them before Judah haNasi, who is said to have redacted the Mishnah in the form we now know it.

Two of the other five rabbis have red links that cannot be fixed: Which Rabbi Yosei/Jose? Which Rabbi Shimon/Simeon?

Finally, I'd like to write an introduction to this section. Can somebody point me toward a good source? Does anybody know what role the five played in compiling the Mishnah? Some of them (Rabbi Meir, for example) lived before Judah haNasi. How could they have compiled the Mishnah years before he did? — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 22:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)