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Akiba ben Joseph
8. April, 2008Akiba ben Joseph (50?–135 C.E.), one of the “ten martyrs” who founded schools for the study of the Torah in defiance of a Roman decree, was flayed alive with a carding claw, rejoicing that he was “permitted to love God with my life.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiba_ben_Joseph
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