Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Kiddushin 142:4

אילימא מדתנן עשרה יוחסין עלו מבבל כהני לויי אטו כהני לויי וישראלי כולהו סליקו כי היכי דאישתיור מהני אישתיור נמי מהני אישתמיטתיה הא דאמר ר"א לא עלה עזרא מבבל עד שעשאה כסולת נקייה ועלה

Did then all the priests, Levites and Israelites go up? just as some of these were left, so were some of those [the unfit enumerated in the Mishnah] left [in Babylon].'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that both are equal.');"><sup>4</sup></span> He [however] overlooked what R'Eleazar said: Ezra did not go up from Babylon until he made it like pure fine flour: then he went up.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 350, n. 2.');"><sup>5</sup></span>

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