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DAF DISCUSSIONS - ERUVIN 54

Jacob Barak asked:

Who was the student of Rav (Daf 54a)?

Jacob Barak, NY USA

The Kollel replies:

Dear Jacob,

(While we make every effort to respond to every question promptly, once in a while a question somehow slips through the cracks. We found that your question had not been addressed, and so we are now sending you an answer. Our apologies.)

I think you mean the student of Rebbi Eliezer, but no one mentions the Talmid's name.

Rav Yakov Emden (in Hagahos ha'Ya'avetz) cites the Gemara in Kidushin 81b, where Rebbi Tarfon asked others to prevent him from having Yichud with his daughter-in-law, and a Talmid mocked this behavior. In the end, that Talmid sinned with his mother-in-law (a sin punishable by Sereifah). Rav Yakov Emden suggests that since Rebbi Tarfon and Rebbi Eliezer lived in the same generation, perhaps the Talmid was the same person.

All the best,

Reuven Weiner