**In the years** 3909 and 3976, the Christians destroyed all believers in the Christian religion, leaving none of them remaining, and they converted, as mentioned in Yerushalmi first chapter of Megillah and chapter Bnei Ha'Ir [(Tzeda)].

**The generations of the Mishnah are 12.** First: Shimon HaTzaddik. Second: Antigonos. Third: Yosi ben Yoezer. Fourth: Nitai Ha'Arbeli and Yehoshua ben Perachyah.

Fifth: Yehudah ben Tabbai and Shimon ben Shatach. Sixth: Shemayah and Avtalion. Seventh: Hillel and Shammai. Eighth: Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai and Shimon ben Hillel.

Ninth: Rabbi Eliezer the Great. Tenth...

**Fourth generation** after the destruction: Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi and the second [generation] and Rabban Shimon [(meaning his son)] and Rashbi and Rabbi Eliezer his son [(Seder Me'orot Einayim in the introduction, and it requires investigation - the Rashbi was the teacher of Rebbi)].