Commentary for Menachot 199:4

תניא נמי הכי ר' יוסי אומר לא בבליים הם אלא אלכסנדריים הם ומתוך ששונאין את בבליים קוראין אותן על שם בבליים אמר לו ר' יהודה תנוח דעתך שהנחת דעתי:

is the sole reward [of the Torah], the tex therefore states, And that which is set on thy table is full of fatness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Job XXXVI, 16.');">⁵</span> IF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT FELL ON A SABBATH etc. Rabbah B'Bar Hanah said in the name of R'Johanan, They were not Babylonians but Alexandrians, but because [the Palestinians] hated the Babylonians they called [the Alexandrians] by the name of Babylonians.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Using the name Babylonians as a term of abuse.');">⁶</span>

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