Halakhah for Rosh Hashanah 35:1

כאן קודם גזר דין כאן לאחר גזר דין הכא נמי ביחיד

One text speaks of God's attitude before the final sentence, the other of his attitude after the final sentenc - Here too the case is that of an individual. On the question of the final sentence of an individual there is a difference between Tannaim, as it has been taught: R'Meir used to say: Two men take to their bed suffering equally from the same disease, or two men are before a criminal court to be judged<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Rashi: Aliter: 'ascend the scaffold to be punished'.]');">¹</span> for the same offence; yet one gets up<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'comes down', i.e., from the bed.');">²</span>

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