Questions, Notes, and Comments Regarding the 12,000 Pairs of Students of Rabbi Akiva who died 19 Centuries Ago [Talmud Tuesday]
There is a Talmudic tradition that 24,000 students died in the early part of the second century in the land of Israel all within a springtime period. According to that tradition, they died between Passover and Shavuot, the latter of...