He put forward the idea of a larger assembly, preferably numbering seventy based on the Jewish Sanhedrin.
For the Jerusalem Council in Judaism, see Sanhedrin
Alypius set vigorously to work, and was seconded by the governor of the province; when fearful balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, continued their attacks, till the workmen, after repeated scorchings, could approach no more: and he gave up the attempt.
As of 2006, aside from being the head of the Temple Institute, he is also involved in an attempt to revive the Sanhedrin.
They were led by Rabbi David Sinzheim of Strasbourg, who presently became the president of the Sanhedrin.
Mole initially did not support Jewish emancipation, though he seems to have moderated his position over the course of his involvement with the Sanhedrin and particularly Abraham Furtado.
He may be identical with the Menahem ben Hezekiah mentioned in the Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin 98b) and called "the comforter that should relieve", and is to be distinguished from Menahem ben Ammiel, the Messiah of the Sefer Zerubbabel.
In the Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 98b Menahem ben Hezekiah is also mentioned along with a list of other names of the messiah suggested by different rabbis.
#Horayot (הוריות, Decisions) deals with the communal sin-offering brought for major errors by the Sanhedrin.
All that has come down of it are the translations of the tractates Berakot, Sanhedrin, and Makkot (Augsburg, 1519), which are the earliest Latin renderings of the Mishnah known to bibliographers.
In 2004 he became a member of the newly reconstituted Sanhedrin, a duplicate of the religious tribunal which convened during the time of the Second Temple, a group that had traditionally had seventy one members.