Ein%20mishpat for Eruvin 36:13

ואמר רבי ירמיה בן אלעזר מקצת שבחו של אדם אומרים בפניו וכולו שלא בפניו מקצת שבחו בפניו דכתיב (בראשית ז, א) כי אותך ראיתי צדיק לפני בדור הזה

from which it follows that until that time he did not beget after his own image. An objection was raised: R'Meir said: Adam was a great saint. When he saw that through him death was ordained as a punishment he spent a hundred and thirty years in fasting, severed connection with his wife for a hundred and thirty years, and wore clothes of fig [leaves] on his body for a hundred and thirty years.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How in view of this statement could R. Jeremiah b. Eleazar maintain his?');">²⁹</span>

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