Internalizing Torah (Pesachim 2b)

מובטח אני בזה שהוא מורה הוראה בישראל והיו ימים מועטים עד שהורה מורה הוראה בישראל.

What was the siman muvhak over here? What was the telltale sign that the guy was going to be a moreh hora'ah b'Yisrael? So apparently, I don't know whoever the talmid was, be it רבן יוחנן בן זכאי, be it Rabbi Yochanan. So if you just say that he knew one halacha more than his chaver, he knew one halacha more than the guy next to him. So that's such a clear indication that he was going to be a moreh hora'ah b'Yisrael. He was he was one line ahead of him in Shas. So because of that it was such a siman muvhak that he was destined to be a moreh hora'ah b'Yisrael because the fact that he had learned the halacha of lashon katzara or lashon nakiya, depending upon which of the pshatim in the Yerushalmi you say, and the other one didn't have it. So I don't know if that's schwer. Bechol sounds like the pshat is like this. We'll say it with with the pshat that that he was praising the one who said ein moskin b'taharah. But it doesn't make a difference. You can adjust it to either pshat. It doesn't make a difference. So it could be that neither one had ever been taught the halacha. Neither of the talmidim knew. They were both sitting and learning and he knew that they hadn't they hadn't come to that halacha yet. He had never told them such a halacha. So neither one had ever been taught again either the din of lashon nakiya or the din of lashon katzar. Neither one had ever been taught. Nevertheless, the one who had a sense based on the Torah he had learned, he was refined enough and he had he had the intuition to realize that when you talk, you talk belashon nakiya or when you talk, you talk belashon katzar. So he saw that he wasn't stam learning intellectually, but he saw that the fact that he was mechaven to this din on his own, the fact that he had a sense for it, so it showed a certain refinement of character that meant that he was destined for gadlus. If it if it were just the fact that he knew one halacha more than the other guy, it wouldn't be such a siman muvhak. But if it meant that his entire learning... No, they never learned this halacha. But he had a sense for how a talmid chacham should behave, how a talmid chacham should speak. So he had a certain sense for what Torah was about. He had a certain understanding for Torah. So that he thought was a clear sign that he was going to be a moreh hora'ah b'Yisrael. Taka לא היו ימים מועטים עד שהיה מורה הוראה בישראל.