Journey to France: Provence - The Meiri, Rabbeinu Menachem Meiri

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay shalom everyone now we're uh continuing to drive through provence i want to speak about one of the luminaries that lived in one of the cities here in provence 12 49 to 1306 57 years the eerie has a stunning explanation for the story of the two ladies that came before schleimer they both had a baby they slept with their baby one of them crushed the baby the other child survived each one comes in front of someone each the surviving baby is my baby so my mouth had a brilliant idea he said split the baby in half and one woman said no no the other one said yeah great idea and she almost said he the mother that didn't want the child split in half that's the mother and the meuri asks how could that be incontrovertible evidence in dna fascists it's circumstantial evidence just because one of them said good idea split in half does that mean for sure it's not the mother maybe the baby was a difficult child the miri says this cannot be admissible evidence so then the eerie says something that's just out of this world he says these two women that came before shalom they were a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law both of them their husbands died therefore if they each have a child each one is exempt from falling to ebon however the one that really died the daughter-in-law's child died so now not only is her husband dead without a child without air but she has a brother-in-law because her mother-in-law has a baby she's now zuckerbum to her mother-in-law's son to her brother-in-law and the kid is only a few days old so she's gonna have to wait 13 years to extricate herself from this very impossible situation so she wanted to say that the child that is alive it's her child for two reasons number one if she has a child and the one that died was her brother-in-law there's no one for her to fall to an evil and number two she has a child she's potted from evil so when she split the child in half and she said yeah great ideas put the child in half so what that does is is now she doesn't have a brother-in-law to fall to in ibum and she's off the hook and this way uh when shoma heard her agree to the proposal split the child in half stoma realized exactly what was up he knew it was a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and he knew that the reason why the daughter-in-law wanted to split the kid in half is this way there would be no yobum for her to fall to says now there's very another very interesting and innovative comment in leery the neeri in his lists the generations of the macabre torah going all the way from moshe albino until his day and he talks about the era of the gaoinem there was someone by the name of rabbah and rabbah going had a son shalom had a son who did not want to learn at all says me or ever wonder that until rebecca those who compiled compiled it based on subject matter nobody ever wrote halacha is on the parshiots that seems somewhat elementary to right but had a child who didn't want to learn so in order to encourage inspire the child to learn utilized the new formula of learning namely if the kid doesn't want to learn in a regular way you need to create you need to invent new ways for the child to learn so from this meri we see an important principle in genocide that the messiah is that you teach you know people say no it's not the messiah to use color magic marker they didn't use it in europe in europe they didn't use this they didn't use that here's the messiah you do what works if the kid doesn't want to learn in method a you do method b i think rabbah khoi going is a good precedent to demonstrate this uh approach very interesting the meiri quotes from you xiaomi that we don't have anymore and nobody has the miui had pages of the ushami that we no longer have and what's very interesting is that the meiri would often quote rashi the rivet the rif the rambam the rimagash the raja bomb without saying their name instead the eerie dubs these we showing them with a very interesting name so let's we're gonna have we're gonna play a little game now who could guess who was godol harabonam who was godol harabanam the greatest of all the rabbis rashi rashi the me this i said earlier today who doesn't recall god al-hamifar who is the greatest commentator on shaas the greatest commentary on chance who was gandal hapoiskim who is the greatest halachic authority of the resigned says the rift who was godo hamachabram the greatest author you're doing good so far the rambam the rambam who was going a safari who was the wisest stage from spain the reemagash and let's see if we could go for a perfect record over here the wisest of all the frenchmen the rashfam relay nusmuel bar mayor so here we have six we're gonna we're gonna try it one more time okay he says what is the tactless of clay dash elo we're about to approach khoi the shell you know the storm say av stands for elo is coming says what is the tactless of claedes ello says the miri to supplicate incessantly why when you stand before i call this prophet rosh hashanah you want it to be with purity of heart and all the added filos and all the added sugars and all the extra davening we do when you dive in incessantly excessively when you dive in more than you usually do it's the metahere of the lathe that is the tactless of koi dash alolan therefore says every monday night every thursday night in ello one should stay up a little bit later there reboy hatfila kidayla taher levi hashem rosh hashanah the tahara salem rabbenu manafeim you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com