Seeing Through the Husk: Reb Meir & the Heretic - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

Pesach Sheni and the Power of Teshuvah For Source Sheets: https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/2412 Reb Meir, the second century Talmudic sage, was seen as one of the greatest scholors of his day. Yet, unlike his friends, he chose to remain loyal to his teacher, Elisha ben Avuya, who became a heretic. Why? There are three schools of thought. We are a victim of our past; we are the fathers of our future. The unique position of Judaism extends man’s reach not only forwards, but even backwards in time. We can retroactively redefine or recast our previous bad deeds into good ones, by peering through the “husk” of the negative and seeing it from the vantage point of the Divine. This was the secret of Reb Meir.