To dispute with him in halachah

He argued with him about the matter of walking. It was at Polmud that I walked with him.

("He said to them: If it were as if I were dead, this fire would be extinguished. A fire would be uprooted from its place...They said to him: No one brings a vision from the fire...He went and said to them: If it were as if I were dead, the pillar of water would be extinguished. They returned the pillar of water behind them. They said to him: No one brings a vision from the pillar of water. He returned and said to them: If it were as if I were dead, the pillars of the house of the midrash They were taken. They bowed down to the altar of the house of the midrash. Rabbi Yehoshua rebuked them, saying to them: If the disciples of the wise men defeat this one in their walk - what is your advantage? They did not fall before the glory of Rabbi Yehoshua, and they did not rise before the glory of Rabbi Eliezer" - Baba Matzia 55b, and so: "And when they asked him Sometimes... why is he amazed at his success in walking with his friends? Answer: He was successful in his journey! "Shahal - Heads of the Tabernacles: Shlomo was a keen learner" - Y. Burla/ Kisuphim, 231, and also: "He ran to the house of the midrash to pray in a group. Hear the disciples of the wise men, succeeding in this and that, on the way between the offering and the evening meal" - Agnon/ Elo And these are the deeds of Azriel Moshe the Bookkeeper, 316, and so on: "He opens a great abyss and converses with the disciples of the wise men who are in the synagogue, and they argue with him in matters of conduct" - Life of His Grandmother/ Like the Dawn, 133)

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