The Boat From the teachings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai

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The Boat

From the teachings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai

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PrintE-mail Discuss (11) A group of people were travelling in a boat. One of them took a drill and began to drill a hole beneath himself.



His companions said to him: "Why are you doing this?" Replied the man: "What concern is it of yours? Am I not drilling under my own place?"



Said they to him: "But you will flood the boat for us all!" (Quoted in Midrash Rabbah, Vayikra 4:6).



From the teachings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, also know by the acronym "Rashbi," lived in the Holy Land in the 2nd century C.E. A disciple of Rabbi Akiva, Rashbi played a key role in the transmission of Torah, both as an important Talmudic sage and as author of the Zohar, the most fundamental work of Kabbalah. He was buried in Meron, Israel, west of Safed.

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