(I don't know if George Lucas ever learned Gemara, but somewhere down the line, all this Torah stuff found its way into Star Wars…)Īcher used to ride his horse, the equivalent of a 1300 cc Harley Davidson in today's parlance, right up to the door of the synagogue where his former student, Rabbi Meir, was teaching Torah on Shabbat. The next day, Acher had 'gone bad', and there are even stories of him going into cheders and killing some of the small children who were learning torah there. One day, Acher was hanging out with his contemporary Rabbi Akiva, and teaching Torah to some very 'big shots', including the famed Rabbi Meir (Baal Haness), who is now buried in Tiberius, where he's visited by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims a year. That last film really bothered me: how could someone who really knew what was 'good' and what was 'bad' switch sides so easily, to the point that within 24 hours of the 'change', he was mass-murdering small Jedi knights in waiting? In case you think this plot-line is just yet another Hollywood fantasy, pretty much the very same thing happened with our very own Sage, Elisha ben Abuya, otherwise known as Acher, literally the "other one", the one who joined the dark side. You know which one I'm talking about, the one where Darth Vader 'went evil' and instantaneously switched from being a good Jedi Knight, fighting for purity and truth, to a mass-murdering, red-eyed super-baddy. I know it's already ancient history to most of the filmgoers out there, but one of the last films I watched before I went 'cold turkey' on all that Hollywood rubbish was the very last in the second 'Star Wars' trilogy.
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