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“That a person shall perform and live by them” (Leviticus 18:5). It is inferred that with regard to one who sits and did not perform a transgression, God gives him a reward like that received by one who performs a mitzva.
R' Shimon bar R' Yehuda HaNasi says that as the verse states: “Only be steadfast to not eat the blood, as the blood is the soul” (Deuteronomy 12:23), it can be derived a fortiori: And if with regard to the blood, which a person’s soul loathes, one who abstains from its consumption receives a reward
R' Ḥananya ben Akashya says: God sought to confer merit upon the Jewish people; therefore, He increased for them Torah and mitzvot, as each mitzva increases merit, as it is stated: “It pleased YHWH for the sake of His righteousness to make the Torah great and glorious” (Isaiah 42:21). God sought to
Talmud: R' Yoḥanan says: R' Ḥananya ben Gamliel’s colleagues are in disagreement with him and hold that lashes do not exempt the sinner from karet. Rav Adda bar Ahava said that this is so, as they say in the school of Rav that we learned in a Mishnah (Megilla 7b): The difference between Shabbat and
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak says: There is no proof from here that R' Ḥananya ben Gamliel’s colleagues disagree with him, as in accordance with whose opinion is this Mishnah taught? It is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yitzḥak, who says: There are no lashes in cases of those liable to receive kare