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In Midrash Icha Rabbah 1, Nero Caesar is not briefly mentioned as someone who ruled Rome during the Great Revolt and died in the midst of the revolt, while Vespasian was busy with his attempts to conquer Jerusalem, and thus Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai 's prophecy that Vespasian would become emperor was fulfilled: "After three days, Vespasian went to swim in the Gupna. After he had swum and put on one of his sandals, news came to him that Nero was dead and the king was a son of Rome."

The coin with the image of Emperor Nero is mentioned several times in the Mishnah and in the Tosefta as the "Nironit Rock" or "Nironit" for short.

In addition, there is a sage article in the Babylonian Talmud , which describes a man named Nero Caesar as an envoy of the emperor who reigned at that time, and not as the emperor himself. According to that article, the Roman emperor sent Nero Caesar to conquer Jerusalem following a report from a man named Bar Kamtza , according to which the people of Judah were betraying him. When Nero Caesar arrived in the Land of Israel , he shot arrows to the four winds of heaven to check which place to conquer, and all the arrows eventually landed in Jerusalem . Nero concluded from this that he would win his war against Jerusalem. Later, he saw a boy passing by and asked him to teach him, and the boy quoted to him the verse “And I will take my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel” ( Ezekiel 25:14 ) . Nero saw this as a prophecy that God would take revenge on him for the conquest of Jerusalem. As a result, Nero fled , converted And one of his descendants was the Tanna Rabbi Meir .

His wife Poppea was presented in the sources as a sympathizer of the Jews, and in the Talmud she was even presented as a matron

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In Aggadah in the Talmud says that at the end of AD 66, conflict broke out between Greeks and Jews in Jerusalem and Caesarea. According to the Talmud[Hebrew Wikipedia], during the Great Jewish Revolt, which describes a man named Nero Caesar as an envoy of the emperor who reigned at that time, and not as the emperor himself.Italic text According to that article, the Roman emperor sent Nero Caesar to conquer Jerusalem following a report from a man named Bar Kamtza , according to which the people of Judah were betraying him. Nero went to Jerusalem and shot arrows in all four directions. All the arrows landed in the city. He then asked a passing child to repeat the verse he had learned that day. The child responded, "I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel" (Ezekiel 25:14).Ezekiel [http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Eze-25.html 25:14] Upon hearing this, Nero became terrified, believing that God wanted the Second Temple to be destroyed, but that he would punish the one to carry it out. Nero said, "He desires to lay waste His House and to lay the blame on me," whereupon he fled and converted to Judaism to avoid such retribution.Talmud, tractate Gitin 56a-b Vespasian was then dispatched to put down the rebellion.

The Talmud adds that the sage Reb Meir Baal HaNess lived in the time of the Mishnah, and was a prominent supporter of the Bar Kokhba rebellion against Roman rule. Rabbi Meir was considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the third generation (139–163). According to the Talmud, he was a descendant of Nero, who had converted to Judaism.Gittin 56a

The Talmudic legend about Nero is not supported by contemporary sources. Roman and Greek sources nowhere report Nero's alleged trip to Jerusalem or his alleged conversion to Judaism.Isaac, Benjamin. 2004. The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Princeton University Press. pp. 440–491. {{ISBN|978-0-691-12598-5 }}. There is also no record of Nero having any offspring who survived infancy: his only recorded child, Claudia Augusta, died aged 4 months.

His wife Poppea was presented in the sources as a sympathizer of the Jews, and in the Talmud she was even presented as a matronia[Hebrew Wikipedia]

:You cannot cite Hebrew Wikipedia and citing the Bible/Talmud requires a secondary source for analysis and interpretation. Traumnovelle (talk) 06:53, 2 May 2025 (UTC)