Rabbi Shimon [Bar Yochai]

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said that on his own he could exempt the world from judgment during his lifetime, with his son Rabbi Elazar he could exempt from Creation until then, and with Yotam ben Uziyahu from Creation until the end: Succah 45b

Rav Shimon bar Yochai on the number of righteous people who are closest to Gd, and the inclusion of himself and his son, Rabbi Elazar, among them: Succah 45b

Rav Shimon bar Yochai juggling 8 torches at the Celebration of the Water Libation: Succah 53a

Rav Shimon bar Yochai bowing all the way down to the earth, supported only by his thumbs in the form titled "Kidah," at the Celebration of the Water Libation: Succah 53a

Rabbi Shimon's list of acts which he said that Gd despises, and Rabbi Shimon himself was displeased with: Niddah 16b-17a

Rabbi Shimon's list of acts of which he said that the practitioner was sacrificing his own life, due to concerns for "Ruach Raah [Evil Spirits]": Niddah 17a

Set of extra-legal statements, quoted by Rabbi Yochanan: Berachot 7b

Set of Chizkiyah's statements quoting Rabbi Yirmiyah quoting Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: Succah 45b

The law is like Rabbi Shimon for most issues of Shabbat: Shabbat 157a; Beitzah 2a-b

Rabbi Shimon ate Wild growths of Cabbage from the Sabbatical Year: Pesachim 51a-b

Rabbi Shimon was the teacher of Rebbe: Shabbat 147b; Eruvin 91a; Menachot 72a

Rabbi Shimon's students brought oil and towels to the bathing-spring on Shabbat in Tekoa [via areas with Fenced Borders]: Shabbat 147b; Eruvin 91a

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's students asked him why the Jews deserved to die at the time of Purim; he told them to give the answer, and when their answers failed to satisfy him, they asked him to give his own answer, which he did: Megillah 12a

Rabbi Yosi exclaiming on the words of Rabbi Shimon, "The lips of one who answers appropriate words, should be kissed!": Gittin 9a

How we determine law when Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Yosi disagree: Eruvin 46b

How we determine law when Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Yehudah disagree: Eruvin 46b; Bechorot 11a

How we determine law when Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Meir disagree: Eruvin 46b

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi ruled that Rabbi Shimon's opinion in a certain argument was reliable, in a case of pressing need: Gittin 18b-19a

Rav Sheshet quoting from the "Midrash of Rabbi Shimon": Kiddushin 20b

Rabbi Shimon recording a list of seven Court Enactments: Menachot 51b-52a

Rava exclaimed, regarding Rabbi Shimon's ability to analyze a verse, "Only a woman who is going to birth a child like Rabbi Shimon is a woman who should give birth!": Makkot 17b

An anonymous elder, "HaHu Sava," teaching a lesson in the school of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: Makkot 19b

Two sages of the Mishnaic era arguing about what it was that Rabbi Shimon said: Temurah 20b

When Rabbi Chanina ben Chachinai went to the beit midrash at the end of the sheva berachot week of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai asked him to wait for him, which he did. He ended up spending twelve years learning, and when he returned home the roads had changed and he was lost until he heard someone call his daughter. He came home, and his wife's heart stopped when she saw him. He prayed for her, and she was revived: Ketuvot 62b


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