Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 50:6
<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך אם אינן מכירין</strong></big><br><br>
Our Rabbis taught: When he [Rabban Gamaliel] saw him, he rose from his seat and kissed him on his head, saying, Peace to thee my teacher and my disciple - my teacher, because thou hast taught me Torah publicly, my disciple because I lay an injunction on thee and thou dost carry it out like a disciple. Happy is the generation in which the greater defer to the lesser, and all the more so the lesser to the greater! [You say] 'All the more so'! It is their duty!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' We naturally suppose the words to mean, 'all the more so where the lesser defer to the greater', which would imply that such a thing is not ordinarily to be expected.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
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