Commentary for Berakhot 124:20
ורקיקה מקל וחומר: אמר רב ביבי אמר ר' יהושע בן לוי כל הרוקק בהר הבית בזמן הזה כאילו רוקק בבת עינו שנאמר (מלכים א ט, ג) והיה עיני ולבי שם כל הימים
And to expectorate on the Temple Mount is forbidden a fortiori. Rab Bebai said in the name of R. Joshua b. Levi : Whoever expectorates on the Temple Mount in this time is as though he expectorates into the pupil of his eye; as it is said, "And Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually" (I Kings ix. 3).
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
M.: in the name of R. Issi.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
I.e. after its destruction.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Euphemistically for "the eye of God."
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