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but later reconsidered and did not divorce her, and a resident of his city found him and said: Your name is the same as my name, and your wife’s name is the same as my wife’s name, and we reside in the same town; give me the bill of divorce, and I will use it to divorce my wife, then this document
The Talmud rejects this argument: How can you compare the two cases? There, with regard to a bill of divorce, it is written: “And he shall write for her” (Deuteronomy 24:1), and therefore we require writing it in her name, specifically for her; whereas here, with regard to a sota, it is written:
On the topic of R' Meir and his Torah study, the Talmud cites an additional statement. R' Aḥa bar Ḥanina said: It is revealed and known before the One Who spoke and the world came into being that in the generation of R' Meir there was no one of the rabbis who is his equal. Why then didn’t the rabbis
It was taught in a baraita: R' Meir was not his name; rather, R' Nehorai was his name. And why was he called by the name R' Meir? It was because he illuminates [meir] the eyes of the rabbis in matters of the halakha. And R' Nehorai was not the name of the tanna known by that name; rather, R' Neḥemy
The Talmud relates that R' Yehuda HaNasi said: The fact that I am more incisive than my colleagues is due to the fact that I saw R' Meir from behind, i.e., I sat behind him when I was his student. Had I seen him from the front, I would be even more incisive, as it is written: “And your eyes shall