Hillel Nesiah

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 II. 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.