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Talmud for Sanhedrin 10:5

הַכֵּה תַכֶּה אֶת וְגוֹ' (דברים יג). הַחַמֶּרֶת וְהַגַּמֶּלֶת הָעוֹבֶרֶת מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ מַצִּילִין אוֹתָהּ. הַחֲרֵם אֹתָהּ וְאֶת כָּל אֲשֶׁר בָּהּ וְאֶת בְּהֶמְתָּהּ לְפִי חָרֶב (שם), מִכָּאן אָמְרוּ נִכְסֵי צַדִּיקִים שֶׁבְּתוֹכָהּ אוֹבְדִין, שֶׁבְּחוּצָה לָהּ פְּלֵטִין. וְשֶׁל רְשָׁעִים, בֵּין שֶׁבְּתוֹכָהּ בֵּין שֶׁבְּחוּצָה לָהּ, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ אוֹבְדִין:

(Deuteronomy 13:16): "Smite shall you smite, etc." A donkey or camel caravan passing from place to place rescues it. [(The members of) a donkey or camel caravan who remain in a city thirty days are reckoned among the inhabitants of the city. [("they rescue it":) If the majority of the city were incited to idolatry, and a minority not, and the members of the caravan who were not incited make the minority a majority, they "rescue" the city from property loss, causing them to be judged as individuals. They can, likewise, cause the city to be judged as a condemned one if they were incited along with them to form a majority, but the tanna "pursues merit." Furthermore, it is more probable that the caravan members would tend not to be so close to the people of the city as to be incited along with them.] (Ibid.): "Lay waste it, and all that is in it, etc.": From here it is derived that the property of the righteous within it is destroyed; (the property of the righteous) outside it escapes. And (the property) of the wicked, whether in it or outside it, is destroyed.

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah

When Rebbi Naḥum bar Simai expired, the pictures were covered by bast mats14The entire paragraph in Eccl. rabba 9(9); cf. also Babli Moˋed qatan 25b.
They covered all icons along the route of the funeral procession by mats. (In the Babli, the icons turned into mats.)
. Just as he did not see them during his lifetime, so he should not see them in his death. But do they know anything15Babli Berakhot 18a.? Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said, the only difference between us and the just is speech16Midrash Ps. 30(3) [ed. Buber Note 6]; Pesiqta rabbati 2 (ed. Friedmann Note 17), 12 (Note 4). The name tradition changes from source to source.. Rebbi Ze‘ira said, the dead person hears his eulogy as in a dream. Rebbi Ashian said, the dead person hears his eulogy16aקִילוּס “praise” is derived from Greek καλῶς! “beautiful, excellent”. For the use as “eulogy” compare καλολογέω, same as ἐυλογέω (E. G.). as in a dream. Why was he called “Naḥum the most holy man”? because he never in his life looked at the form on a coin17Sanhedrin 10:6 Note 335, Megillah 1:13 (72b l. 57) 3:3 (74a l. 39); Babli Šabbat 118b, Pesaḥim 104a.. Why was he called “our holy teacher”? Because he never looked at his circumcision17Sanhedrin 10:6 Note 335, Megillah 1:13 (72b l. 57) 3:3 (74a l. 39); Babli Šabbat 118b, Pesaḥim 104a..
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