Hillel Nesiah

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Hillel II the Amora

Hebrew:
רבי הלל בן רבי יהודה נשיאה
Other Names:
Hillel the Amora, Hillel the Nasi, Hillel ben Rebbe Yehuda Nesiah, the last Hillel
Kever:
Dalton, Israel
Description:
A fifth generation Amora and the last Nasi of the Sanhedrin who created the current Jewish calendar.

Hillel Nesiah was a 13th generation descendent of Hillel the Elder and a son of Rebbe Yehuda Nessiah III. He lived in Eretz Yisroel during the fifth generation of Amoraim and served as the final Nasi of the Sanhedrin. Seeing the Roman-Christian led prosecution that almost obliterated Jewish life in Eretz Yisroel, Hillel Nesiah gathered his Sanhedrin and established the Jewish months and leap years until the time of Moshiach. He is buried in Dalton, Northern Israel.

Lineage

1. Hillel the Elder
2. Shimon ben Hillel
3. Rabban Gamliel the Elder
4. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel of the Asorah Harugay Malchus
5. Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh
6. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel of Usha
7. Rebbe Yehudah Hanasi
8. Rabban Gamliel son of Rebbe
9. Rebbe Yehuda Nessia I
10. Rebbe Gamliel IV
11. Rebbe Yehuda Nessia II
12. Rebbe Gamliel V
13. Rebbe Yehuda Nessia III
14. Hillel Nesiah