Rabbi Meir

• Enigmatic Sages of the • Handsome Session Four • Brilliant • Committed Exclusively to the Truth By Rabbi Lazer Congregation Beth Tefilah

Background

• Ancestry • Wise – 300 Laws • Teachers • Beautiful – Behind the Partition • Ordained • Compassionate – Sins not Sinners • Strong – Overcame Tragedy

Tragedies Faith and Courage

• Father – Burned at the Stake • Saved her Sister • Mother – Burned at the Stake • G-d of Meyer • Sister – Taken Prisoner • Overcame all her Tragedies • Brother - Murdered • But not her Personal Shame • Sons – Died at a Young Age • Rabbi Meir Left the Country

1 Brilliance Scribe

• Non attributed • Expert • Both Sides of the Coin • Wrote Megillah • Uprooted Mountains • Special Ink • Holy Mouth • Your Work is Holy • His Stick Made Me Wise • Three Sela • His Back Made Me Sharp • His Children

Acherim - Others Elisha’s Destiny

• Followed Elisha • Extinguished Flame Over Grave • “The End is Better” • Promised Entry into Purgatory • “Beyond Gold and Crystal” • Promised Entry into Gan Eden • Everyone, But Elisha • The Last Moment

Justification The Great Expounder

• Cover of the Torah With the Torah • Halacha, exposition and Parables • The Fruit • Three Hundred Parables • Would Never Defy his Colleagues • Spit in My Eye

2 Man of Peace Piety

• “He Drove Me Out” • Beware of Me with My Daughter • Aaron's Methods • She Married a Torah Scholar • Either Way – They are my Children • Mocked Sinners

His Travels In

• Shipwrecked • Appointed Chacham • Dishonest Host • Attempted Dethronement • Cleopatra • We are Inside and Torah is Outside? • Left the Country

Posthumous Sumchus

• Near Israel’s Water Forty Nine Arguments • Whose Water are we Drinking? • And Forty Nine Arguments • Yehudah is Angry, Meir is Dead, Yossi is Silent

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