רבי מאיר Rabbi Meir
Tanna · 3rd generation (c. 110–135 CE) — named 2,351 times across 37 tractates of the Bavli.
Rabbi Meir, of the third tannaitic generation, was Rabbi Akiva's student and, before that, a student of Rabbi Yishmael; he also learned from Elisha ben Avuya, and did not abandon him when the rest of the sages did. He earned his bread as a scribe, and his handwriting was said to be exact.
The rule that an unattributed mishnah is Rabbi Meir makes him, more than anyone, the voice a student hears when the Mishnah speaks in its own name. The law nonetheless does not follow him against his colleagues, and the Talmud gives the reason plainly: his colleagues could not get to the bottom of his reasoning, for he could argue the impure pure and the pure impure and make either sound true. He is named some two thousand three hundred times, and his wife Bruriah, daughter of Rabbi Chananya ben Teradyon, is the one woman whose learning the Talmud cites as learning.
The anonymous Mishnah is his; a scribe whose colleagues could not fathom him.
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