Chasidut for Eruvin 108:20
רבי פרידא הוה ליה ההוא תלמידא דהוה תני ליה ארבע מאה זימני וגמר יומא חד בעיוה למלתא דמצוה תנא ליה ולא גמר
[why was not this procedure<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which would have conferred greater distinction on each individual or group as compared with the group that followed.');"><sup>41</sup></span> adopted:] Aaron might enter and learn from Moses,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The four times required.');"><sup>42</sup></span> his sons might then enter and learn from Aaron,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The four times required.');"><sup>42</sup></span> then the elders might enter and learn from his sons<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The four times required.');"><sup>42</sup></span>
Mei HaShiloach
Gemara: The rabbinic students said to R' Preida: "R' Ezra, the grandson of R' Avtolas, who is a tenth-generation descendant of R' Elazar ben Azaryah, who was a tenth-generation descendant of Ezra the Scribe, is standing at the door." R' Preida said to them: "What is all this? Why do you give his lineage? ... If he is a scholar and of distinguished ancestry fine. But if he is of distinguished ancestry and is not a scholar, [may fire consume him!]" They answered him: "He is a scholar." [R' Preida] said to them: "Let him enter and come before us." When R' Ezra entered [R'Preida] saw that his mind was unsettled. [R' Preida] therefore began saying,[NOTE: Translated in accord with the Izhbitzer's explanation below]: "'I said to God," etc., 'My good is in other than you.'"
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