Commentary for Bava Batra 241:9

רב דימי בר יוסף אמר רב נחמן יום שכלו בו מתי מדבר דאמר מר עד שלא כלו מתי מדבר

[implies] this thing shall only apply to this generation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 120a. ');">²²</span> Rabbah b. Bar Hana said in the name of R. Johanan: [It was] the day on which the tribe of Benjamin was allowed to enter the congregation. [This was for a time prohibited], for it is written, Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah saying: 'There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Judges XXI, 1. ');">²³</span> What was their exposition?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whence was it derived that the tribe of Benjamin could again be permitted to enter the congregation? ');">²⁴</span> — 'Of us,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the prohibition, they maintained, applied to those only who had themselves taken the oath, since they specifically used the expression, 'of us'. ');">²⁵</span> but not of our children.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The children, therefore, i.e., the daughters of those who took the oath, could be married to the men of Benjamin. ');">²⁶</span> R. Dimi b. Joseph said in the name of R. Nahman: [It was] the day on which the dying in<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'the dead of'. ');">²⁷</span> the wilderness had ceased;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Num. XIV, 35. The last of that generation had died prior to that day, and all the survivors were thus assured of entering the promised land. ');">²⁸</span> for a Master said: Before the dying in the wilderness had ceased

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