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Rav Symeon the son of Clopas (fl.c.86CE) often confused elsewhere with Peter, Paul and Shimeon Kippah is also known in the Teliya as Hakham Elijah and is accredited in Judaism as the Jew who canonized the NT by order of the Sanhedrin. Tam said that he was the Shaliakh of Peter. Epiphanius said that his Father, Clopas, is said to have had a brother called Joseph Panther. One version of the Teliya says he was the brother of Magdalena. These claims might refer to his brother in law Joses ben Pandera the father of Yemakh Shmo Ben Stada. Symeon fought against the feasts of the Notzrim and got them to observe feasts of HaShem appropriately under new names.
In Baruch Frankel's Hagahot it is written: “On the 9th of Teves, Shimon Hakalfus -who helped save the Jewish people- died and the Sages established it as a day of fasting.”
R. Jacob Tam expressed his belief that Simon CaIaphas, the first Patriarch of Jerusalem, "was a devout and learned Jew, who dedicated his life to guiding Heretics along the proper path. R. Tam further maintained that Simon was the author of the Nishmat prayer recited on Sabbaths and Festivals. (Machzor Vitry, edited by S.Hurwitz, 1923, p.285 note 5 and p. 362 note 5. CF. J. Eisenstein's articles on Simon CaIaphas in Otzar Israel and Otzar Midrashim.)
The Teliya also praises Simon as a greatly learned and pious man dedicated to saving Israelites from heresy and guiding gentile followers of displacement theology into Noahism. The Teliya also recalls Simon in Antioch and his elevated throne.
Simon was officially instated as an Av Beit Din in Antioch by Theophilius on February 22nd.
Many Magi of Mithrea who had been deceived into the anti-mishnah heresies of the Judaizers were retrieved to Noahism by Simon. Those Judaizers who Simon failed to convert became the Nestorians.
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