Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 210:12

וא"ר חייא בר אבא א"ר יוחנן אחד מן האחין שמת

R. Simeon b. Pazzi said in the name of R. Joshua b. Levi in Bar Kappara's name: If one sheds tears for a worthy man, the Holy One, blessed be He, counts them and lays them up in His treasure house, for it is said, Thou countest my grievings: Put thou my tear into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. LVI, 9. ');">²⁰</span> Rab Judah said in Rab's name: He who is slothful to lament a Sage deserves to be buried alive, because it is said, And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim; on the north of the mountain of Gaash:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Josh. XXIV, 30. 'Gaash' is derived from a root meaning to tremble or rage. ');">²¹</span> this teaches that the mountain raged against them to slay them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because they did not fittingly lament him. ');">²²</span> R. Hiyya b. Abba said in R. Johanan's name: He who is slothful to lament a Sage will not prolong his days, [this being] measure for measure, as it is said, In measure, when thou sendest her away, thou dost contend with her.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XXVII, 8. ');">²³</span> R. Hiyya b. Abba objected to R. Johanan: And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who prolonged their days after Joshua?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Josh. ibid. 31. Thus they lived long in spite of their failure to mourn for Joshua. ');">²⁴</span> — O Babylonian! answered he, they prolonged 'their days',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' (Maharsha: Their days seemed prolonged on account of the difficult times they experienced, v. however Rashi.] ');">²⁵</span> but not years. If so, that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XI, 21. ');">²⁶</span> [does that mean] days but not years! — A blessing is different.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [The length of days in the case of a blessing can be only another expression for length of years, cf. n. 6.] ');">²⁷</span> R. Hiyya b. Abba also said in R. Johanan's name]: When one of brothers dies,

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