Commentary for Shabbat 26:7

ד"א אין בשר המת מרגיש באיזמל איני והאמר רב יצחק קשה רימה למת כמחט בבשר החי שנא' (איוב יד, כב) אך בשרו עליו יכאב ונפשו עליו תאבל אימא אין בשר המת שבחי מרגיש באיזמל

but for him, the Book of Ezekiel would have been hidden,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The technical term for exclusion from the Canon' ');">¹⁷</span> for its words contradicted the Torah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g. Ezek. XLIV, 31; XLV, 20, q.v. ');">¹⁸</span> What did he do? Three hundred barrels of oil were taken up to him and he sat in an upper chamber and reconciled<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'expounded them'. ');">¹⁹</span>

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