Commentary for Yoma 132:19

טול וצא תנא מה שהי צפירא דין וחובי דרא סגיאין

Rab Judah said: The tribe of Levi did not participate in the idolatry, as it is said: Then Moses stood in th gate of the camp.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXXII, 26. (cont.) and said: 'Whoso is on the Lord's side, let him come unto me'. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.');">²⁵</span> Rabina was sitting and reporting this teaching, whereupon the sons of R'Papa B'Abba objected to Rabina: Who said of his father and of his mother: 'I have not seen him, etc.'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXXIII, 9. Here seems scriptural proof that the Levites, in punishing the guilty, ignored relationships, such as father or mother, but executed punishment on all. Thus their relatives, other Levites, must have been guilty.');">²⁶</span>

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