A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
Bio: Akiva ben Joseph, widely known as Rabbi Akiva, was a tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century. Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha.
