Rabbi Meir

Rabbi Meir (Hebrew: רַבִּי מֵאִיר) was a Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Mishnah. He was one of the Tannaim of the fourth generation (139-163). He is the third most frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah^{[citation needed]} and is mentioned over 3,000 times in the Babylonian Talmud.^[1] His wife Bruriah is one of the few women cited in the Gemara.^{[citation needed]}