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say them with calmness so that they will accept instruction from him. Rav Ashi said: I did not hear this statement of Rabba bar bar Ḥana, and yet I fulfilled it through my own reasoning.
R' Abbahu says: A person should never impose excessive fear upon the members of his household, as a great man imposed excessive fear upon his household and they fed him something that carried a great prohibition.
The Talmud asks: And who was this individual? The Talmud answers: R' Ḥanina ben Gamliel. The Talmud asks: Would it enter your mind to say that they actually fed him forbidden food? Now consider that God does not cause an error to be performed through the animals of the righteous. With regard to th
Rather, it means that they sought to feed him something that carried a great prohibition. And what was this? A limb from a living animal. One day the animal they brought him was missing a limb, and as the members of his household were very fearful they severed a limb from a living animal to make hi
§ After mentioning letters sent from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia and the issue of scoring parchment, the Talmud relates: Mar Ukva, the Exilarch in Babylonia, sent a letter to R' Elazar, who was in Eretz Yisrael, in which the following was written: With regard to people who stand over and torment me