Halakhah for Eruvin 37:10

אלא הא דכתיב עוברי בעמק הבכא ההוא דמחייבי ההיא שעתא בגיהנם ואתי אברהם אבינו ומסיק להו ומקבל להו בר מישראל שבא על בת עובד כוכבים דמשכה ערלתו ולא מבשקר ליה

[signifying] that even the worthless<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'empty'.');">³⁰</span> among you are as full of good deeds as a pomegranate [with seed]'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hag. 27a.');">³¹</span> What, however, about what is written: Passing through the valley of Baca?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. LXXXIV, 7, from which it was deduced supra that the wicked in Israel do suffer in Gehenna. How is this statement to be reconciled with the last cited one of Resh Lakish?');">³²</span> - That [refers to the fact] tha [the wicked] are at that time under sentence to suffer in Gehenna,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the 'passing through' it, and 'the weeping'. MS.M.: 'are sentenced to be in Gehenna for one hour, but etc.'');">³³</span>

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