Shmuel ha-Katan

And Rabban Gamliel institutes the 19th blessing.

And Shmuel Hakatan is tasked with the job of writing this prayer.

So Shmuel Hakatan writes this prayer.

It gets authorized by Rabban Gamliel.

So Rabban Gamliel effectively institutes the 19th blessing in the Shmuel Esrei, in the 18 blessings.

I don't mean spiritual forces, I mean new religions, new groups of people, new ideologies.

These were the enemies.

It's hard to imagine that this would have been directed against universal forces of evil, which will only develop much later, because after the first century, we were still in Hechalot and Merkava literature, which was angelology and demonology, and only from the time of the Tsar, which came out in the late 13th century, did we start developing this notion of evil, and you've got Spirot, and they're opposed by negative energies and the notion of evil it seriously doesn't seem that Rabban Gamliel and Shmuel HaKatan would have had a kind of Zoharic approach or a later Hasidic mystical approach or a Lurianic approach to the forces of evil and Klippa they were dealing with very real enemies who were actually trying to inform on them and to destroy them and to kill them and they had already killed and destroyed Multitudes of Jewish people have, of course, destroyed the temple and the Jews were in exile.

Rabbi Elazer Hamodai, Yehuda ben Tema, Rabbi Shimon ben Nisanel, Rabbi Shimon ben Akashia, Rabbi Shimon ben Halafda, He appears in the Mishnah because of the story of him bringing the rain.

Rabbi Hurkanus Rabi Yanai, Rabi Nahorai, Antignos is Soho, Rabi Chalaf is Kfar Hananya, Rabi Levitas is Yavna, Rabi Yonasson, Shmuel Hakatan, many of these rabbis sound familiar from Perkei Avos, Ben Bagbag, Ben Heihei, El Yehoenai, Ben Hakaf, Hanam Alamitri, Rabi Shimon Ben Manassia, Abba Shaul Ben Betanus, Zecharia Ben Kvutar, Bava Ben Buta, Rabi Shmuel Ben Osho, Rabi Yochanan Ben Baroka, and Rabbi Shmuel by Rabbi Yossi.

Says the Rambam, Gamba, Ascaris, Ela, please note that the list I just gave you, lo diakti lefi sederizman ehem, I did not follow chronological order, I just put them in a good order for people to remember, but chronology will have to wait.

So how many total sages are there mentioned in the Mishnah?

Rebbe Lezer ben No, his son Rebbe Lezer, Rebbe Yochanan ben Zakai, Rebbe Yochanan ben Zakai, who has the conversation with the Spatians.

Rabbi Shmuel ben Elisha Cohen-Gadol, Rabbi Shmuel ben Elisha Cohen-Gadol, who's one of the ten martyrs.

Rabbi Shaul, Eliezer Hamodai, Rabbi Hanina Sgana Kohanim, Rabbi Gamliel, Rabbi Shimon Beno, his son Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Hanani ben Antignus, Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa, Rabbi Hanani ben Tradion, Shmuel Hakatan, Rabbi Eliezer ben Parta, Rabbi Eliezer ben Dama, Rabbi Hanani ben Chachinai, Rabbi Yida ben Abba, all of those are there, they were the leaders in the time of the destruction.

The second generation, the next generation, is Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Loza ben Azaria, Rabbi Shmuel, Rabbi Shua ben Karcha, Hanani, Ish Ono, Shimon ben Nanas, Rabbi Yochanan ben Broca, Rabbi Shmuel, his son, Rabbi Yochanan ben Gudgada, Rabbi Loza Chasma, Rabbi Yehuda ben Tema.

So that's a Sodran is better or has precedence over a Pilpala.

So Rabbi Shmuel, Achoi, the Rabbi Barachia, even like Rabbi Ami.

Now the simple understanding I would have thought, this is the way the author explained it, meaning a Sodran even like like, sorry, Pilpalan, even like Rav Yami, or something like that.

But the Pilem Moshe doesn't say this.

Schara for Mikra, Schara for Mishnah.

In other words, that's kind of the debate here.

Like, where do you have precedence in learning? Anyway, Rabbi Shmuel Bar Nachman's Amar, if we're talking precedence in learning, he says Mishnah goes before Talmud.

You've got to learn Mishnah as well.