Portraits in Leadership: Rabbi Meir

Enroll Today!! For more info visit http://myjli.com. Lesson Five: THE INNOVATION TO LEAD Have you ever broken into your own car? Hacked your computer to get to your own files? Sometimes we need to know how to bend the rules in order to preserve the system. Rabbi Meir was the most gifted of Rabbi Akivas students.With his brilliant wife Beruriah, he worked tirelessly to salvage and reconstruct the oral tradition during one of the most oppressive periods of our history. He made the controversial decision to maintain relations with his former teacher turned heretic, Elisha ben Avuyah, in an effort to ensure that Elishas knowledge would not be lost to future generations.