That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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.
