Commentary for Kiddushin 138:6

בשלמא למאן דאמר עלו היינו דכתיב (עזרא ח, טו) ואקבצם אל הנהר הבא על אחוה ונחנה שם ימים שלשה ואבינה בעם ובכהנים ומבני לוי לא מצאתי שם

and Palestine is as dough relative to Babylon.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. n. 2. Halevi, Doroth, 1, 3, p. 104 conjectures that this was due to the incessant wars with the Greeks, when many Jews and Jewesses were taken captive by the enemy, and the general weakening of Jewish observance during the Hellenizing period and later when the Sadducees ruled the country. The Jews in Babylon, however, were free from all this.');">⁷</span> But on the view that he [forcibly] led them up, they were indeed known?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Palestine too, and restrained from intermarrying, so that Palestine remained just as pure as Babylon.');">⁸</span>

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