Commentary for Kiddushin 138:4
אביי לית ליה דרבי אלעזר רבא אית ליה דרבי אלעזר איבעית אימא דכולי עלמא אית להו דרבי אלעזר והכא בהא קא מיפלגי מר סבר אפרושי אפרושינהו ומנפשייהו סליקו ומר סבר בעל כרחייהו אסוקינהו
Abaye rejects it, Raba accepts it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For such purging could only be effected by compulsion.');"><sup>4</sup></span> Alternatively, all accept R'Eleazar's dictum, but they differ in this: One Master [Abaye] holds that he [merely] separated them, whereupon they voluntarily ascended [to Palestine]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In order to become mixed up with the others.');"><sup>5</sup></span>
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
Alternatively, both Abaye and Rava could agree that Ezra made Babylonia into sifted flour. Abaye holds that he separated them into lineages and then they voluntarily went to Israel, knowing who could marry whom. Rava says that even though they knew each other’s lineage, he still had to force them to go.
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