Mesorat%20hashas for Sotah 96:20

והיינו דאמר ר' אלעזר מאי דכתיב (זכריה ד, י) כי מי בז ליום קטנות מי גרם לצדיקים שיתבזבז שולחנן לעתיד לבא קטנות שהיה בהן שלא האמינו בהקב"ה רבא אמר אלו קטני בני רשעי ישראל

translated:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The words 'as bees do' in Deut. I, 44. ');">³⁴</span> When the bees spring forth and fly in the heights of the world and collect honey from the herbage on the mountains. We have learnt there:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nazir 50a. ');">³⁵</span> Whatever is poured out<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If something is poured from a clean vessel into an unclean vessel, what is in the former is not defiled by the fact that the latter is unclean. ');">³⁶</span> is clean with the exception of thick honey and batter.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Being thick the outflow connects what is in the two vessels. ');">³⁷</span> What means zifim [thick]? — R. Johanan said: Honey used for adulteration [ziyyef]; and Resh Lakish said: It is named after its place, as it is written: Zif, Telem and Bealoth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Josh. XV. 24. ');">³⁸</span> You may similarly quote, When the Zifites came and said to Saul, Doth not David etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. LIV, 2 (in the E.V. it is part of the heading of the Psalm). ');">³⁹</span> What means Zifites? — R. Johanan said: Men who falsify their words; and R. Eliezer says: They are named after their place, as it is written: Zif Telem, and Bealoth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Josh. XV. 24. ');">³⁸</span> AND MEN OF FAITH DISAPPEARED. R. Isaac said: These are men who had faith in the Holy One, blessed be He. For it has been taught: R. Eliezer the Great<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Eliezer b. Hyrcanus. ');">⁴⁰</span> declares: Whoever has a piece of bread in his basket and Says. 'What shall I eat tomorrow?' belongs only to them who are little in faith. And that is what R. Eleazar said: What means that which is written: For who hath despised the day of small things?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Zech. IV, 10. ');">⁴¹</span> [It signifies,] What is the cause that the tables of the righteous are despoiled in the Hereafter?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They do not receive their full reward. ');">⁴²</span> The smallness [of faith] which was in them, that they did not trust in the Holy One, blessed be He. Raba said: They are the little ones<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Children who died young. ');">⁴³</span> among the children of the wicked of Israel

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