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compelled him--contrary to the wishes of his father--to desert his regular occupation and depart for Jerusalem to devote himself to his studies. In Jerusalem, he entered the academy of Yochanan ben Zakkai and, for years, studied diligently despite enduring great privation. Ben Zakkai, recognizing Eliezer's receptive and retentive mind, styled him "a plastered cistern

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