Commentary for Menachot 35:8

ואי סלקא דעתך דברי הכל פסול אתנייה מאי החזרת לי אבידתי איהו פלוגתא קאמר ליה

But now that you have taught me the view that it is invalid, you have thus restored to me what I had lost'. Thereupon the eyes of R'Eleazar B'Shammua' streamed with tears and he exclaimed, 'Happy are ye, O scholars, to whom the words of the Torah are so dear!' He then applied to him [Joseph] the following verse: 'O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. CXIX, 97.');">⁶</span> For it was only because R'Judah was the son of R'Ila'i, and R'Ila'i was the disciple of R'Eliezer that he [R'Judah taught you the view of R'Eliezer.'

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