Commentary for Kiddushin 138:2
מאי איריא דתני עלו מבבל נתני עלו לארץ ישראל מסייע ליה לרבי אלעזר דאמר ר' אלעזר לא עלה עזרא מבבל עד שעשאה כסולת נקיה ועלה
Then why particularly state, WENT UP FROM BABYLON: let him teach, went up to Eretz Yisrael? - This supports R'Eleazar. For R'Eleazar said: Ezra did not go up from Babylon until he made it like pure sifted flour: then he went up.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He intentionally took those of inferior rank so that they should not remain in Babylon, where, owing to the absence of leaders, they might mingle with the rest of the nation. Therefore the Tanna states: WENT UP FROM BABYLON, intimating that in that itself he had a purpose, apart from the rebuilding of Palestine, viz., to purge the Jews in Babylon.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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