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A calamity awaits him.
§ The Talmud returns to the topic of rebuke. It is taught in a baraita that R' Eliezer the Great says: Were God, to have entered into judgment with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they would not have been able to stand before the rebuke. As it is stated: “Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with
§ The verse states: “This is the generation of them that seek after Him, that seek Your face, Jacob. Selah” (Psalms 24:6). This verse teaches that the level of the generation and those who lead them, i.e., those who seek after Him, are the same. R' Yehuda Nesia and the Rabbis disagree about this. On
The Talmud asks: With regard to what halakha, i.e., matter, is this stated? If we say for good, that one Sage holds that if the generation is good then their leader will be good, and one Sage holds that if the leader is good then his generation will be good, this cannot be correct, as there is the
The Talmud cites proof for these claims. As R' Yoḥanan says in the name of R' Shimon ben Yoḥai: What is the meaning of that which is written: “In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from YHWH, saying” (Jeremiah 26:1), and similarly with regard to Zed