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	Resh Lakish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simeon ben Lakish (in Hebrew, Shimon ben Lakish; in Aramaic, Shimon bar Lakish or bar Lakisha), better known by his nickname of Resh Lakish, was an amora who lived in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina in the third century CE.
		It is said that Resh Lakish saw Yochanan bathing in the Jordan, and mistaking him for a woman, at one bound he was beside him in the water.
		The independence which Simeon ben Lakish manifested in the discussion of halakic questions was equally pronounced in his treatment of aggadic matters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Resh_Lakish (1634 words)

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		as resh lakish said: resh lakish: witnesses signed on a shar are like those whose testimony was nechkera in bet din.
		resh lakish: witnesses signed on a shar are like those whose testimony was nechkera in bet din.
		resh lakish, taslking about case that once they wrote on shtar, they cannot say later mebudim, (badai), we were liars.
	yucs.org /~waxman/horayot-ii-class-8.txt (1882 words)

	Covenant and Conversation - Vayechi
		Resh Lakish was originally a highway robber and gladiator.
		Resh Lakish said: Great is repentance, because through it deliberate sins are accounted as unintentional, as it is said (Hosea 14: 2), “Return, O Israel, to the Lord your G-d, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.” “Iniquity” means a deliberate sin, yet the prophet calls it “stumbling” [i.e.
		Resh Lakish also said: Great is repentance, because through it deliberate sins are accounted as though they were merits, as it is said (Ezekiel 33: 19), “When the wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.”
	www.chiefrabbi.org /thoughts/vayechi5764.htm (2269 words)

	Judaism 101 - Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
		Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish — also known as “Reish Lakish,” was a person of incredible physical strength, which led him to choose leadership of a band of highway-men as a career, until he encountered Rabbi Yochanan ben Nappachah.
		“Reish Lakish” was swimming in the Yarden one day when he was observed by Rabbi Yochanan, who had seen at a glance his leadership ability, his high intelligence and his potential for spirituality, as well as his strength.
		Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish gave some practical advice to people seeking mates, as well as demonstrating sound knowledge of genetic principles when he advised, “an unusually tall man not to marry an unusually tall woman lest their children be as tall as a ship’s mast...
	www.ou.org /about/judaism/benlakish.htm (410 words)

	OLAM.ORG :: Speak your Peace ::
		Resh Lakish, we are told, began life as a bandit.
		In time, Resh Lakish became a prominent sage because someone was able to see not only what was but the possibilities inherent and unrealized in this unusual man (Baba Metsia 84a).
		For to see a David in a blank block of stone, to see Resh Lakish in a bandit, these are great acts of constancy and of faith.
	www.olam.org /treasure.php?issue=2&id=84 (1176 words)

	Shmuel Chapter 5
		Resh Lakish questions R. Yohanan’s position, asking why they would get punished as they did if those were their motvies.
		Resh Lakish apparently assumes that Hashem struck the Ashdodites with hemorrhoids for their having mistreated the Aron; in that view, the sin was the mistreatment rather than anything else.
		Resh Lakish, who saw the housing of the Aron with Dagon as a sign of victory, seems to have thought that Plishtim’s subservience to a particular avodah zarah depended completely on its proven power.
	www.rjconline.org /shmuel5.html (1608 words)

	Resh Lakish - the Reformed Bandit - OU.ORG
		Resh Lakish - the Reformed Bandit - OU.ORG
		Shimon, the son of Lakish, was the leader of a group of bandits, during the role of the Romans, after the Destruction of the Second Temple.
		Known in the Talmud as "Resh Lakish," he entered history as one of the immortal Torah giants, in scholarship and character, of the Jewish People.
	www.ou.org /chagim/elul/reshlakish.htm (318 words)

	Like Pomegranates: Every person is special - filled with goodness.
		It should be noted that Resh Lakish's statement contrasts with an earlier exclusive opinion, that only Torah Scholars fired up with Torah are resistant to the fire of Gehenna.
		The Biography of Resh Lakish will allow us to better appreciate his statement: Originally a robust highway robber Resh Lakish changed direction and became a Baal Teshuva, rising in Torah Scholarship as a colleague of the great Rabbi Yochanan.
		Resh Lakish learned the potential of a sinner from his own personal experience.
	www.saratogachabad.com /mainpages/Avot/4_3.htm (530 words)

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		It almost seems appropriate that Resh Lakish, a man who believes in potential—which cannot be seen—would engage in a “fight to the death” with Yochanan, the champion of superficiality.
		Much is made of Resh Lakish’s physical strength, but his true attributes were the sincerity of his tschuvah (to the extent that he died of sorrow when it was questioned) and his willingness to grant the benefit of the doubt to others…to give to others that which was ultimately denied to him.
		Resh Lakish is so overcome with grief that he soon dies of it.
	myjewishhome.blogspot.com /2004_09_01_myjewishhome_archive.html (7696 words)

	Integrative Sprituality :: Integral Spirituality, Integral Religion, God and Buddha from the Integral Worldview
		Resh Lakish, however, explains it thus: The reason why he does not get stripes is the succeeding, but if it were not he would get stripes, as to a negative command that does not contain manual labor, stripes do apply.
		Resh Lakish shares the opinion of R. Jehudah of another Boraitha (Chulin 82, b.), in which R. Jehudah admits that a doubtful warning is not considered; and R. Johanan holds with R. Jehudah of the following: R. Idi b.
		Resh Lakish may say that there are two Tanaim who said in the name of R. Jehudah differently, and R. Jehanan may say that in the latter Boraitha R. Jehudah declared the theory of his master, but his own opinion he declared in the former Boraitha.
	www.integrativespirituality.org /postnuke/html/static-docs_Books-judaism-Babylonian_Talmud9-mac08.htm (8372 words)

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		Resh Lakish said, all these are made in the ilfas [a pot, and not baked in the oven.
		Ulla said, Resh Lakish can reply that these [which are obligated] were put into the pot after it was already hot [so that the pot is like an oven.
		Rebbe Shimon ben [Resh] Lakish said, whenever there is fire underneath, it's not obligated in challah, and the blessing is not "ha-motzi," and it doesn't fulfill the obligation of [matza on] Pesach.
	www.vbm-torah.org /archive/mb/104miberu.doc (2012 words)

	Beth Emet The Free Synagogue - Making a Difference
		Disagreeing, Resh Lakish contended that they can only be judged completed at the moment the smith dips them in cold water.
		Almost immediately thereafter, Resh Lakish became gravely ill. The Rabbis were convinced this was because he had offended Rabbi Yochanan.
		Resh Lakish's wife, who was Rabbi Yochanan's sister, pleaded with her brother to pray for her husband's recovery, but he refused.
	www.bethemet.org /archives/knobel/sermon100800-1.php (3279 words)

	Beth Tfiloh Congregation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Resh Lakish’s experience in the real world was vastly different than Reb Yochanan’s.
		Notice, too, that the same Resh Lakish who praised Noach in the generation in which Noach lived, also praised the scholars in the generation in which he lived.
		For Resh Lakish, the people of the day – whether Noach in his day or the sages in Resh Lakish’s day – were to be praised and glorified.
	www.btfiloh.org /sermons/chaitovsky110103.htm (2221 words)

	Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 65
		Resh Lakish said: Yidde'oni is omitted [in Kerithoth], because it involves no action.
		But R. Johanan maintains: Offences which are distinct in their injunctions [there being a different one for each], are held to be separate [in their atonement]; but if only in the decree of death, they are not regarded as separate.
		But according to Resh Lakish, that they regard a Ba'al ob as doing no action too, they should have stated that he also is exempted.
	www.come-and-hear.com /sanhedrin/sanhedrin_65.html (2226 words)

	Sages, Stories, Authors, and Editors...: Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Resh Lakish, angry at being publicly contradicted by his teacher, denounces Elazar for stating an opinion and failing to attribute it to its author, Yohanan.
		In the one context where the familiar charge of plagiarism is raised and Resh Lakish is not present, therefore, the criticism against Elazar is dismissed and he and his teacher are reconciled.
		In another story critical of Elazar, the well known account of Resh Lakish's conversion to the rabbinic way of life, Elazar is portrayed as a student who continually supports the opinions of his teacher, Yohanan.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/reading/bookexc/sages/chapter1.shtml (6286 words)

	parshablog: 08/10/2003 - 08/16/2003 : thoughts on the weekly parsha (torah portion)
		Then, we could say, as Resh Lakish actually does, that the only reshus haraabim would exist would be if it were mefulash (open) from the end of the world until its end.
		Resh Laskish's second statement allows for the lack of the existence in reshus harabim in the present reality, since it will exist in the future.
		So, Resh Lakish agrees to R Yochanan's principle, and so he would agree here that continental shelves are not efficacious, proving it by contradiction.
	parsha.blogspot.com /2003_08_10_parsha_archive.html (2190 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Resh Lakish would agree that [less than the legal quantity] is forbidden by [decree of] the Rabbis (but not by the Torah).
		Resh Lakish said: It is permitted by Biblical law, for the Divine Law speaks of eating and this is not [eating; until you get to the amount of a date].
		Resh Lakish said: Better is the pleasure of looking at a woman than the act itself as it is said: ‘Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire.'
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=553 (6318 words)

	Yeshivat Hamivtar - Orot Lev - Parshat Shemini
		Resh Lakish says that the intention of the verse is that this is a reference to the last day and the first day of creation.
		According to Resh Lakish, it is not clear that man was created first.
		This is the Resh Lakish understanding of the verse quoted above from Tehillim.
	www.yhol.org.il /parsha/5760/tazria-metzora60.htm (5069 words)

	Babylonian Talmud, Rodkinson tr., Book 3: Chapter I: The Preparations of the High Priest
		The Boraitha according to Resh Lakish is as follows: Moses ascended in the cloud, was covered by the cloud, and was sanctified in the cloud, in order that he should have been able to receive the Torah for Israel in a state of sanctitude, as it is written [Ex.
		Resh Lakish was bathing in the Jordan: Rabba bar bar Hana came to him, and shook hands with him.
		Resh Lakish said to him: God detests you Babylonians, as it is written [Solomon's Song viii.
	bennieblount.org /Online/Talmud/yom06.htm (11131 words)

	Babylonian Talmud, Rodkinson tr., Book 3: Chapter VIII: Regulations Concerning Fasting on the Day of Atonement; What ...
		Resh Lakish avows, that rabbinically it is prohibited.
		Resh Lakish said again: When one commits an excess in eating on the Day of Atonement, he is not culpable.
		Resh Lakish says: Penitence is great: even the sins that have been done intentionally are considered as if they had been done unintentionally.
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/t03/yom13.htm (12252 words)

	Congregation Beth Sholom - San Francisco Jewish Conservative Synagogue : Rabbi Nathan's Sermons : Rewriting Our ...
		Now Resh Lakish was a shady character — some say he was a gladiator, some say a robber, some say he caught thieves for the Roman government.
		Resh Lakish disagreed, seeing Noah as not only righteous in his own generation but all the more so had he been in another generation.
		Resh Lakish worked in shady occupations because he needed the cash—he lived in the tough world of gladiators and thieves.
	www.bethsholomsf.org /CBS/pages/page.phtml?page_id=176 (2697 words)

	REVIEW ANSWERS - SHABBOS 71
		Resh Lakish learns from "Al Chataso ve'Hevi" - that if he becomes aware that he sinned only after he had actually brought his Chatas, he is Chayav two Chata'os.
		And Resh Lakish, who holds that Hafrashah does not divide, will will agree that Kaparah (actually having brought the Chatas) does (because this is the one case which divides according to all opinions).
		Resh Lakish is strict in both cases, because if he were to agree that Hafrashah divides - then why would he establish "Al Chataso ve'Hevi" specifically by after Kaparah rather than after Hafrashah?
	dafyomi.shemayisrael.co.il /shabbos/reviewa/sh-ra-071.htm (895 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SIMEON B. LAḲISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is said that the latter saw him bathing in the Jordan, and was so overcome by his beauty that at one bound he was beside him in the water.
		Thereupon R. Johanan said, "If thou wilt turn again to thy studies I will give thee to wife my sister, who is still more beautiful." Resh Laḳish agreed, and R. Johanan led him back to a life of study (B. 84a).
		Johanan might be called a teacher of R. Simeon b.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=757&letter=S (1508 words)

	Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg - October 12, 2002 Shabbat Sermon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Resh Lakish, on the other hand, according to legend, started off as a robber.
		Resh Lakish saw and experienced the world as it was.
		While the same Resh Lakish who praised Noach in the generation in which Noach lived, praised the scholars in the generation in which he lived as well.
	www.btfiloh.org /mw/mwohlberg101202.htm (2891 words)

	TorahQuest Commentary - "A Teacher and a Friend in One Person" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Resh Lakish [was insulted and] answered him: So then what good have you done for me? There they called me [rabi] My Master, [and] here they call me [rabi] My Master.
		R. Yohanan was nevertheless saddened, and Resh Lakish became ill. The wife of Resh Lakish, who was the sister of R. Yohanan, came him and wept, saying: Pray for his health, for the sake of my son.
		Lakish's (this is Resh Lakish's full formal name) soul went to its rest, and R. Yohanan grieved very much after him.
	www.torahquest.org /show_commentary.php?cid=109®id=213 (2088 words)

	Chancellor's Commentary Parashat Mikketz 5755, The Jewish Theological Seminary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Resh Lakish, one of the dominant rabbinic leaders of Palestinian Jewry in the third century, saw the timing of the birth of Joseph's children as an exemplary instance of planned parenthood.
		Implicit in his decision, observed Resh Lakish, was the noble principle that in time of communal distress one ought to refrain from sexual pleasure.
		The Talmud enlarged on the ethical sensitivity of Resh Lakish.
	www.jtsa.edu /community/parashah/archives/5755/mikketz.shtml (859 words)

	TorahQuest Commentary - "Ambiguous Morality" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Resh Lakish is a gladiator and is making a pass at the beautiful beardless R.Yohanan.
		Once Resh Lakish abandons the culture of the gladiator he is incapable of returning to it.
		And what is the legacy to us of Resh Lakish — When the aristocratic and snobbish R' Jochanan (or others) get too abstract, or shows their lack of a sympathy for others, Raish Lakish counters with an argument based on understanding where he came from and where he is going.
	www.torahquest.org /show_commentary.php?cid=126®id=145 (2552 words)

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		His bases this on the verse (Bereishit 1:2), "And the spirit of God hovered over the waters," which he interprets as a reference to the spirit of Mashiach (the Messiah), symbolic of the meta- historical process.
		According to Resh Lakish, the conceptual basis for the entirety of human existence precedes all of creation.
		Resh Lakish's interpretation can be associated with this version of creation, since both assume that man is qualitatively different than the rest of creation.
	yucs.org /~cypess/parsha/yhe/27-tazria-sichot58.txt (1164 words)

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