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He means that it is a mitzva to say to them: Do you want a strict judgment, or do you want a compromise? The Talmud objects: Since this opinion is the same as that of the first tanna, who also allows compromise, it is redundant to teach it. The Talmud answers: There is a difference between them w
The Talmud objects: If so, the opinion of the first tanna is the same as that of R' Shimon ben Menasya. The Talmud answers that there is a difference between them with regard to the principle: After you hear their statements and you know where the judgment is leaning, it is not permitted for you t
§ And the various rabbis who offered interpretations of the verse: “And the covetous blesses himself, though he despises YHWH” (Psalms 10:3), disagree with the explanation of R' Tanḥum bar Ḥanilai. As R' Tanḥum bar Ḥanilai says: This verse was stated only with regard to the incident of the Golden Ca
Aaron said to himself: If I do not listen to them now, they will do to me as they did to Hur, and the verse: “Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of YHWH?” (Lamentations 2:20), will be fulfilled through me, and they will never have a remedy for such a sin. It is better for t
And with regard to those tanna’im who did not interpret the verse: “The beginning of strife is as when one releases water” (Proverbs 17:14), with regard to compromise, what do they derive from this verse? They understand the verse in accordance with the opinion of Rav Hamnuna, as Rav Hamnuna says: T