Halakhah for Menachot 59:11

(סי' סגלם) ת"ר עושה אדם יריעה מבת שלש דפין ועד בת שמנה דפין פחות מיכן ויתר על כן לא יעשה

We must say that up to this point the Holy One, blessed be He, dictated and Moses repeated and wrote, and from this point the Holy One, blessed be He, dictated and Moses wrote<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But did not repeat the words as heretofore, because of his grief.');">⁹</span> with tears [in his eyes], as it says of another occasion, Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. XXXVI, 18. Baruch the scribe when writing down the Lamentations as spoken by Jeremiah did not repeat the words because of the grief they caused him.');">¹⁰</span>

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