Commentary for Kiddushin 62:15

איבעיא להו

But that is only within twelve months [of his death].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [It is held that punishment in the Hereafter does not extend beyond the first twelve months after death.]');">¹⁵</span> Thereafter he must say: 'His memory be for a blessing, for the life of the World to come.' Our Rabbis taught: A Sage must change his father's name and his teacher's name, but the interpreter does not change his father's name and his teacher's name.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When scholars lectured, they did not speak directly to their audiences, but through the medium of interpreters, to whom they whispered their statements and who in turn spoke them aloud to the assembled congregations frequently with embellishments of their own. Now, the Sage, when whispering to the interpreter a teaching he heard from his father, must not refer to his father by name but by the formula 'my father and teacher'; but the interpreter need not do so.');">¹⁶</span> Whose father? Shall we say, the father of the interpreter?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the Sage cites a dictum of the interpreter's father.');">¹⁷</span> - Is then the interpreter not obliged [to honour his parents]? - But, said Raba, [it means] the name of the Sage's father or the name of the Sage's teacher. As when Mar, son of R'Ashi, lectured at the college sessions; he said [to the interpreter]: My father, my teacher [said thus], whereas his interpreter said: Thus did R'Ashi say.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But not: Thus said the Sage's father.');">¹⁸</span> Our Rabbis taught: What is 'fear' and what is 'honour'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Referring to Lev. XIX, 2: Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and Ex. XX, 12: Honour thy father, etc.');">¹⁹</span> 'Fear' means that he [the son] must neither stand in his [the father's] place nor sit in his place, nor contradict his words, nor tip the scales against him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Should his father be in dispute with another scholar, his son must not side with his opponent (Rashi) . In J.D. 240, 2, it is translated: he must not make a decision in deference to his view, i.e,, if his father differs from another scholar, he must not even say: I agree with my father. - These last two, however, hold good only in the father's presence, but otherwise he may state his view freely; yet even then, it is preferable that he should avoid mentioning his father's name when refuting his view, if possible.');">²⁰</span> 'Honour" means that he must give him food and drink, clothe and cover him, lead him in and out. The Scholars propounded:

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