Commentary for Yoma 153:3

אמר רב חנא בר ביזנא אמר ר' שמעון חסידא אילמלא לא נצטננו גחלים מידו של כרוב לידו של גבריאל לא נשתיירו משונאיהן של ישראל שריד ופליט

And he went in my sight.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. X, 2.');">⁵</span> Thereupon: And the cherub stretched forth his hand between the cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and took thereof and put it into the hands of him that was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 7.');">⁶</span> R'Hana B'Bizna said in the name of R'Simeon the Pious: Were it not for the fact that the coals of the hand of the cherub became cold [in the process of coming] into the hands of Gabriel,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Alluded to in 'the man clothed in linen'.');">⁷</span> there would not have been left over from the 'enemies of Israel'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Euphemistic for Israel.');">⁸</span>

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