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Akiva ben Joseph (ca.40–ca.137 CE) simply known as Rabbi Akiva (Hebrew: רבי עקיבא), was a tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century (3rd tannaitic generation). He was a great authority in the matter of Jewish tradition, and one of the most central and essential contributors to the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha. He is referred to in the Talmud as "Rosh la-Chachamim" (Head of all the Sages). He is considered by tradition to be one of the earliest founders of rabbinical Judaism. He is the seventh most frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah.
A great many legends have been passed down about Akiva. But despite the rich mass of material afforded by rabbinical sources, only an incomplete portrait can be drawn of the man who marked out the path followed by rabbinical Judaism for almost two millennia.
Akiva ben Joseph (written עקיבא in the Babylonian talmud, and עקיבה in the Jerusalem Talmud — another form for עקביה) who is usually called simply Akiva, was of comparatively humble parentage. A misunderstanding of the expression "Zechus Avos" (Ber. l.c.), joined to a tradition concerning Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor (Giṭ. 57b, Sanh. 96b), is the source of another tradition (Nissim Gaon to Ber. l.c.), which makes Akiva a descendant of Sisera. According to the romantic story of Akiva's marriage with the daughter of the wealthy Jerusalemite, Kalba Savua, Akiba began life as an uneducated shepherd who worked for this aristocrat. (see below "Akiva and his wife" and "His relationship with his wife"). His wife's name is not given in the earlier sources, but she is called Rachel in a later version of the tradition (Ab. R. N. ed. S. Schechter, vi. 29). She stood loyally by her husband during that critical period of his life in which Akiva dedicated himself to the study of Torah.
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Billy's got his new girlfriend
And he likes her
And she really likes him
He remembers being lonely so he's wishing
She will never leave
But sometimes it's impossible to tell
And august leaves you inside out
And you're thinking
But you think what the hell
Why is this so different today
This is life
You've got to live it
No matter what anybody else says
You've got to give a damn
And it's always a matter of stand and deliver
I'm sure
Betty's thinking why this time
All the souls collected and you had to choose mine
Now I'm left standing on my own two feet
Can't you take this life and make it complete
But sometimes it's impossible to tell
And august leaves you inside out
And you're thinking
But you think what the hell
Why is this so different today
It's just life
You've got to live it
No matter what anybody else says
You've got to give a damn
And where did you come from
And where do we all go to
It's just life
You've got to live it
No matter what anybody else says
You've got to give a damn
And it's always a matter of stand and deliver
I'm sure time and time again you'll see