Simeon ben Gamliel
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Sep 25, 2026
Max MessingerGUEST
That it's not just someone who is dangerously sick, who would really suffer from sleeping in a sukkah, but even someone who their eye hurts a little bit, or they have a bit of a headache, that would also be enough to not sleep in a sukkah.
Max MessingerGUEST
And right after the halakha, there's a story brought from Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel, who says that one time his eye hurt, and he was in Kessaria, and Rabbi Yossi let him sleep outside in a sukkah.
Max MessingerGUEST
So we have right after the halakha an example that that indeed happened, One time.
Max MessingerGUEST
Another halasa, in light of that, that someone who would have distracts from sleeping in the sukkah, is that if the rain started falling while you were sleeping in the sukkah, it's also true for eating, that if you're recording the eating, and rain falls, and you leave the sukkah, even if the rain stops, you don't have to go back in the sukkah until you finish the meal.
David SedleyGUEST
We have already noted that even regarding Rosh Hashanah, it is written, Do not be sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
David SedleyGUEST
Furthermore, the Mishnah in Tarnit tells us that Rabbi Shimon ben Gamlio said, There were no days as joyous for the Jewish people as the 15th of Av and as Yom Kippur.
David SedleyGUEST
So Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are happy days.
David SedleyGUEST
If so, why do we spend all day on Yom Kippur in synagogue, fasting and praying? Whereas on Sukkot, we spend the day sitting in the Sukkot with our families and friends, eating, drinking, celebrating.
Dena WeissGUEST
So in Pirkei Avot, there's basically two significant moments where we see praise for silence.
Dena WeissGUEST
We're going to start with Pirkei Avot 117, where Shimon, who we know as Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, okay, Shimon Beno said, All my life I grew up among the sages.
Dena WeissGUEST
I used to translate this as silence does a body good, okay? But the more accurate probably rendering is, I didn't find any better goof.
Dena WeissGUEST
I didn't find any better thing than silence.
Dena WeissGUEST
The positive way of reading it is I was sitting among the sages and I felt that the best way for me to soak up this experience, the best way for me to learn was to be quiet.
Dena WeissGUEST
But when you read that the teaching is in the core rather than doing, you can hear in that a little bit of a critique, right, of people who are blabbermouths and not doers.
Dena WeissGUEST
And I think maybe a more accurate way of reading what Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel is saying here is he's like, I have been around the sages a lot.
Dena WeissGUEST
And let me tell you, the sages who talk the most, the blabbers, they are not the ones, okay, who actually have the goods to back that up.
Richard HidaryHOST
And then if he establishes the second and second and third, it doesn't go multiple generations.
Richard HidaryHOST
So then what does it mean? And it doesn't make sense for Rav Shimon Ben Gamliel when he's arguing to say, I think it goes even until generations, which sounds like he's arguing against someone who does think it goes some generations, but just not as many as ten.
Richard HidaryHOST
So how will Rav Huna explain it? And Rav Huna can answer, Rav HaShema Magamliel, he's not responding to the first case, where it's the original generation he could take from, and then just goes one more, which is not multiple generations, but rather he was talking about the second case where he establishes the second generation to be instead of the first, and now it's going not only was the first al-Hadallin, but now the second, and now extends...
Richard HidaryHOST
because he established the second instead of the first.
Nehemia GordonHOST
That's Gamaliel I.
Nehemia GordonHOST
Here we're talking about his grandson, Gamaliel II.
Nehemia GordonHOST
Rabban Gamliel.
Nehemia GordonHOST
He is the ruler of the Pharisees of a Jewish enclave in Yavne.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
It means that when the era, the sun set on the era of Rabbi Teva, the sun arose on the era of Rabbi Judah, the prince.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And Like we mentioned last time, he was the son of the previous Mishnah that we saw, Rabbi Shimon Gamliel.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And he's a direct descendant of Hillel and a direct descendant of King David.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
In the first century before the Common Era, there was a shift that happened.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
They're the real deal because they come from King David.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
So, Rebbe Judah the Prince, and many of the teachers that we've had in the previous Mishnahs, it's a direct line.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
Hillel, and then Shimon, and then Gamliel, and then Shimon, then Gamliel, and then, of course, Rebbe Judah the Prince, and onward.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And this lasted for hundreds of years, until the middle of the 4th century.
David LapinHOST
A very important piece of Rambam.
David LapinHOST
And so what do we have here? The other, Gemara says the other view is that Rabbi Elisha ben Abua, it wasn't that he saw this case of the child falling from the tree, but he saw lishno de' rabi chutzpi sametugaman hazeh, he saw the tongue, remember we read on Yom Kippur about rabi chutzpi sametugaman, the translator of rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel, who was one of the Asori of Haruge mountains, one of the 10 people who were tortured by the Romans.
David LapinHOST
And he saw the tongue of Rabbi Chutzpeth Ametugaman lying in the garbage.
David LapinHOST
And he said, Is that right that a mouth that produced such Torah should be lying in the dust? Is that what Torah is about? Couldn't understand it.
Jacob PraschHOST
The Targum Yonatan as well, but the Targum Anklios became the main one.
Jacob PraschHOST
He was a student of Rabbi Gamaliel that we read about in the book of Acts, chapter 5.
Jacob PraschHOST
But Gamaliel had two other students.
Jacob PraschHOST
One was Rabbi Yochanan Ben-Zakai, and the other was Rabbi Shaul of Tarsus, better known as Paul the Apostle.
Jeremy GimpelHOST
And why is the oral tradition here so important? Because the oral tradition is recording what was the experience of Yom Kippur when the temple existed.
Jeremy GimpelHOST
What was it? What was that energy? Was it an energy of repentance and sadness and affliction, or was it something else? So the Mishnah in Ta'anit, in chapter 4, verse 8, says, Now that's important, I think, because Even Christians recognize Gamliel as this honorable sage of Israel.
Jeremy GimpelHOST
So Rabban Shimon is Ben Gamliel.
Jeremy GimpelHOST
He's the son of Gamliel.
Jeremy GimpelHOST
And he's telling us what was the experience in the temple.
Jeremy GimpelHOST
There were no days as joyous for the Jewish people as the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur.
Charlie HararyHOST
And Rabbi Yishmael Cohen Gadol flying up to the highest realms to find out if this is coming from Hashem and finding out that it is.
Charlie HararyHOST
And then some of the greatest, Tzadikim, Rabbi Yishmael, Rabbi Shimon Gamliel, and others are murdered.
Charlie HararyHOST
The most famous of which is Rabbi Akiva.
Charlie HararyHOST
There's one moment that really got me.
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