Saturday 1 April 2017

Ben Abuya - who else could it be?




Four men went into an orchard, and three are still there. The other, the Akher, went out and, as Isaac Deutscher notes, took a stroll with Rabbi Meir. But the Akher saw that the Rabbi had reached the Eruv - the boundary beyond which he ought not proceed, and advised him to return. Without that intervention the Rabbi would have transgressed.

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