Commentary for Berakhot 20:23
קדוש הוא מנא ידעה רב ושמואל חד אמר שלא ראתה זבוב עובר על שולחנו וחד אמר סדין של פשתן הציעה על מטתו ולא ראתה קרי עליו
"A man of God." How did she know it? Rab and Samuel [offer explanations]. One says: She never saw a fly pass over his table; the other says: She spread a linen sheet upon his bed and never found it stained with seminal emission.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
So M. Edd, : "a holy man" ; but those words are commented upon below.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
That his food did not attract flies was evidence of his being a man of God. Cf. Abot 5:8 where it is stated that one of the ten miracles wrought in the Temple was "no fly was seen in the slaughter-house" (Singer, p. 200).
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