Who was Rabbi Meir Baal Haness?
We
all are familiar of the Tanna R.Meir. His original name was Meisha .
They
called him R. Mier because he lit up the eyes of the Chachamim
in
Halacha. (Eruvin 13b).
R.
Mier was niftar in Asia (Chutz Laaretz) He asked that his body be
placed
on the sea being E.Y. is surrounded by 7 seas. (Yerushalmi Kelaim perek
9 hl.3)
According
to the Yerushalmi it is not clear if his body ever ended up buried
in E.Y.
One
of the first sources that mentions R. Mier’s burial place in
E. Y. is in the
Sefer
Gelilos Haaretz. He writes that R. Mier is buried in the city of Tveryah.
The
Seder Hadoros quotes the same Sefer Gelilos Haaretz who
writes R. Yitzchock
from Gush Chalav
and R. Mier Baal Haness are both buried in Gush Chalav. The
Gelilos Haaretz
writes that he doesn’t know who they were.
(Seder
Hadoros & Gelilos Haaretz never heard of R. Mier Baal
Haness.)
Sefer
Zichron Yackov (vol 2 p 30) writes about the pushkas that
were named
after
an” Ish Chasid V’kadosh who lived in Eretz Hakodesh a few
hundred years
ago.
He was famous – and was called R. Mier Baal Haness”.
Two
of the most respected Frum historians (R. Yechiel Heilprin, Seder
Hadoros & R. Yackov
Lipshutz
,Zichron Yackov ) both held , R. Mier Bal Haness is not the Tanna
R.Mier.
1)
R.M. is buried in Tveryah RMBH is buried in Gush Chalav
2) Seder
Hadoros & Gelilos Haaretz don’t know who R.M.B.H. was
3) Zichron
Yackov claims R.M.B.H. lived a few hundred years ago
R.M. lived two thousand years ago.
4)
To donate L’iluy Nishmas a Tanna who was niftar 2,000 years
ago
sounds very strange.
A Neshama from 2000 years has reached it’s peak a long time ago.
5)
The Loshon, Baal Haness is not found in Shas. In Shas
we only find the term Melumad Banisim.
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