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1. Abbreviation of Regina (“the queen”).
2. Abbreviation of Rex (“the king”).
3. Abbreviation of Rabbi.
   • 1988, Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives‎, →ISBN, page 1:

     R. Meir ben Simeon of Narbonne sharply criticized both the polytheistic implications of the Kabbalistic doctrine of prayers to varied divine manifestations and specific books containing Kabbalistic ideas.

   • 2010 January 7, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, “Jews and Healing at Medieval Saints’ Shrines: Participation, Polemics, and Shared Cultures*”, in Harvard Theological Review‎, volume 103, number 01, →DOI, page 122:

     The quotation is from what seems to be an interfaith discussion between the second-century C.E. Palestinian sage, Rabbi Akiba, and a man identified by his Greek name, Zenon.²⁸ Zenon asks R. Akiba how he explains the fact that individuals seeking the healing power of idols (probably referring to pagan shrines like the aforementioned Aesculapios) are actually healed. R. Akiba answers with a parable, which is quoted in thirteenth-century Jewish polemical literature.²⁹

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