Person

Rabban Gamaliel III, son of Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi רבן גמליאל בן רבי יהודה הנשיא

Rabbi's heir: "the study of Torah is good together with a worldly occupation"

Three of his sayings are in Avot 2:2–4. The second runs: "Make His will thy will, so that He may make thy will like His own; make thy will of no account beside His, so that He may make the will of others of no account before thine."

Of his life little is known: the Jewish Encyclopedia says only that he lived within the first third of the third century, and gives no years. From him runs down the chain of patriarchs that will end two hundred years later.

On the timeline

3978 · 218 CEThe End of the Tannaitic Era: Tosefta and Baraitot 4185 · 425 CEThe end of the Patriarchate: an office descending from Hillel is cut off

Places

Tzippori Tiberias

Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi Rabbi Judah II—Judah Nesiah

Sources

Chazal: Mishnah, Talmud, midrash, Zohar

Mishnah Avot 2:2–4 — the three sayings of Rabban Gamaliel son of Rabbi

Scholarship

The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) — the succession to the patriarchate and the first third of the third century

Basis: Talmud and midrash.