0504 - Ha'ara in Lekutei Sichos Regarding Opinion of Rebbi Meir Called Acheirim

00:00 Look at the Sichas, Chei d'Kedais, the first Sicha of the Parshah Bechukosai, the Rebbe talks about Reb Meir. That sometimes when the Gemara quotes a memory, a statement in the name of Reb Meir, sometimes it says, "Reb Meir Eimer," or "Divrei Reb Meir," and sometimes it refers to Reb Meir as Acherim. And the Rebbe quotes Tosfos, where Tosfos says that those Shmuis that he heard from Elisha Ben Abua, who was called Acher, those statements that Reb Meir said, they called Reb Meir Acherim. But then the Rebbe explains that Reb Meir is called Acherim because this represents his Shita Bechlal. And the Rebbe goes on that his Shita is, is in Kamas and Echas, whatever, but the Rebbe goes on in the, in explaining his Shita. And then at the end, the Rebbe says, and this explains the Pashtas why sometimes it's called Reb Meir, sometimes Acherim, because in those memories, those Halachas that he said that represent his general Shita and came after the story with Acher, there he's called Acherim, and otherwise he's called Reb Meir. In the Orah thirty-three, the Rebbe writes, "V'sorechi un'birur," you have to look into and figure out if you have to have both conditions. That it has to be a Din which represents his general approach, general Shita, and happened after the story of Acher, or one of the two is enough. And then the Rebbe writes, "Ure'ei b'sefer Toldos Hahanoyim V'hameroim," that was written by Hyman. There's a Sefer called, uh, Toldos Hahanoyim V'hameroim that was written

01:19 by a person called Hyman. So the Rebbe says, "Look there," and he says, "SheReb Meir niskeh b'shem Acherim," that there he quotes that Reb Meir is referred to as Acherim, and it says a whole list of places in Shas where Reb Meir is referred to as Acherim. Now, I know there are some people who ask that there are more places where Reb Meir is referred to Acherim. So why does the Rebbe only quote these places here? So I just wanna say how it happened. When the Rebbe was magiya the Sicha, he wrote those words, "Sorechi un'birur," whether it has to be both conditions or not. And then the Rebbe wrote, "Ure'ei b'sefer Toldos Hahanoyim V'hameroim Hyman sheReb Meir niskeh b'shem Acherim." And then he wrote, made a, a colon. That means look into that Sefer where he quotes where Reb Meir is called Acherim. And the Rebbe didn't quote all these places. He just left it empty for the people who wrote the Sicha to fill in all the places that he, Hyman brings in that Sefer where Reb Meir is called Acherim. So that's exactly what we did. We just copied everything that he said because that's what the Rebbe said to do. Now, I don't know if the Rebbe meant that only in these places fits to what he says in the Sicha, and the other places not, and it was meduyek that only these places should be brought, or since these are the ones that he brings, so the Rebbe said to

02:35 c- uh, uh, copy what he brings. But maybe the other ones also, and this is the majority. I don't know exactly, but the way it was, the Rebbe did not actually write down all these places. The Rebbe just wrote, "Ure'ei," started this inyan, "Re'ei," look what he writes, and left empty for us to fill in what he writes. And that's where these Ma'amadim came as came. Now, whether the Rebbe was medayek dafke these or not, that I don't know, that everyone has to think themselves.