A journey to Rebbi Meir and an explanation of why he is called "The Master of Miracles."
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Okay, everyone. We're headed to the great location of the Kever of Rebbe Meir Baal Haness. Actually, we have some gifts to give to Rebbe Meir. We have a few sefarim that are available. Recently, we translated the sefer on Rebbe Meir into Spanish. So, I want to thank the Mishpacha Behar, who's here with us, for putting it out l'zecher nishmas their mother, who passed away recently. It should be Thank you. My dear friend, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Behar, put it out in honor of their mother's ptira, and we hope that this sefer brings an aliya to her neshama, and we hope it brings nachas ruach to the Tanna Eliki Rebbe Meir. Rebbe Meir is known as Rebbe Meir Baal Haness, the master of miracles. The question is, where does this name come from? The Tanna of Meir in Shas is found numerous times, stam Mishna Rebbe Meir, which by the way, stam Mishna Rebbe Meir, it's hard to understand, what does that mean stam Mishna Rebbe Meir? The Gemara tells us in Eruvin that we never rule like Rebbe Meir, we never pasken like Rebbe Meir, because lo yordu chachamim l'sof da'ato. The chachamim could not plumb the depth of his understanding. And yet we say stam Mishna Rebbe Meir. So, that some explanation is in order. Stam Mishna Rebbe Meir means that Rebbe, Rebbe Yehuda HaNasi, when he redacted the Mishna, he took a much larger corpus of material, and he condensed it. However, he wanted to use the original terminology from the earliest of Tanna'im. Early Tanna'im each had their own personal version of the wording of the Torah Shebaal Peh. So, for For most part, Rebbe Yehuda HaNasi took the language of Rabbi Meir. Rabbi Meir's edition of Torah She Ba'al Peh. That's what it means, stam Mishna Rabbi Meir. It
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- 0:00Okay, everyone. We're headed to the great location of the Kever of Rebbe Meir Baal Haness.…
- 0:32Thank you. My dear friend, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Behar, put it out in honor of…
- 1:05it's hard to understand, what does that mean stam Mishna Rebbe Meir? The Gemara tells us…
- 1:36larger corpus of material, and he condensed it. However, he wanted to use the original terminology…
- 2:06doesn't mean the halacha is like Rabbi Meir. It means we used his edition of Torah…
- 3:12And the question is, where do we ever see Rabbi Meir defending us? What kind of…
- 3:43as great as a mitzvah of Talmud Torah is, there's one zechus in this world greater…
- 4:13say we are Hashem's children. The Jewish people have this redeeming quality and have mercy on…
- 4:46with different Melitz Yosher different advocacies or defenses for the Jewish people. So, it's a great…
- 5:18Kachu Ben Kachu Nekran Bonim that we're always the beloved children of Hashem. So, no matter…
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