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How can we apply it in our lives today?
Rabbi Akiva. He returned to his wife after 24 years of learning that he did her behest, with thousands of students, and when they saw her approach they did not know who she was, and all they saw was a poor woman dressed in rags, and they did not want to let her come through because they felt it a lack of honor for such a disheveled person to greet their great rebbi. R’ Akiva saw and called out to them, “let her be, for all [the Torah] that is mine and all that is yours, belongs to her.” She was the one who saw to it that R’ Akiva went to the yeshiva and became who he was.
R’ Akiva said it
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How can we apply it in our lives today?
Ask any Kollel wife.
After your wife works and takes care of your kids while you learn full time for many years…treat her accordingly.
Lets recap what just happened. In the first post op posted a question and in the fifth post he answers his own question under one of his numerous aliases. Does anyone else in the cr find this behavior abnormal?
Rav Amnon Yitzchak quoted this famous line of Rabi Akiva to give the credit to HIS wife for all the ba’alai teshuva created through the countless hours and days and weeks and months and years he has devoted to this task.
Joseph,I thought “so right” was a “she”.
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