Regarding Megilla 16b, RMB writes:<br><br>>> The pasuq being explained is "veratzui lerov echav". Thus, it's not<br>even worth as HQBH measures it, but worth in terms of how fellow members<br>of Anshei Keneses haGedolah do. <<
<br><br>And:<br><br>>> The pasuq being explained is one of being ratzui to other people. It<br>therefore never crossed my mind when learning the gemara that the gemara<br>was explaining anything other than those other people's chiyuv of showing
<br>him kavod. <<<br><br>That is not the case. The Gemara first quotes the Passuk of V'Ratzui L'Rov Echav to show that a minority of the Sanhedrin distanced from him. The Gemara then brings a new Meimra of Rav Yosef that Gadol Talmud Torah... from where Mordechai is placed on the list.
<br><br>The 'Rif' commentary to the Ein Yaakov asks - why was the dictum of Gadol TT not proven from V'Ratzui L'Rov Echav? He answers - had it been for the first Passuk we would think that that is the position of those members of the Sanhedrin - but who says that Hashem agreed? He answers that the listing of Mordechai in different places shows that Hashem Himself agreed!
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