Musar for Bava Batra 156:3
מכלל דמתני' בשאין אדוקים בו ומדרישא בשאין עודן עליו סיפא נמי בשאין עודן עליו
are absent from it!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The ass; which solves the query of the students. ');"><sup>6</sup></span> — On the contrary, consider the [very] first part [which reads]: But he does not sell the crew nor the Enteke;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah, supra 731. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> and it has been stated: What is the meaning of Enteke? R. Papa said: The merchandise which it contains.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 77b. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Shemirat HaLashon
We learned (Bava Bathra 78b): R. Shmuel b. Nachmani said in the name of R. Yonathan (Bamidbar 21:27): "Therefore, the rulers say: 'Let us come to Cheshbon, etc.': 'the rulers' — these are the rulers over their yetzer. 'Let us come to Cheshbon' — Let us come and make the world's accounting ['cheshbon' = account], the loss [entailed by the performance] of a mitzvah against its reward; and the reward of a transgression against its loss." The plain meaning is well known: this [the reward of a mitzvah] is forever, and this [the "loss" of a mitzvah] is temporal. Also, this [the "reward" of a transgression] is a negligible pleasure, and this [the reward of a mitzvah] is awesome. For "one moment of pleasure in the world to come is greater than all the pleasures of this world," and the opposite for transgression.
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