Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Bava Batra 156:4

אדרבה אימא רישא אבל לא מכר לא את העבדים ולא את האנתיקי ואמרינן מאי אנתיקי אמר רב פפא עיסקא דבגוה ומדרישא בעודן עליו סיפא נמי בעודן עליו אלא תנא מילי מילי קתני

Now, since the first part [deals with the case] when it [the merchandise] is in it [the ship], the latter part<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah, supra 78a. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> also [must deal with a similar case, which is] when it [the equipment] is upon it [the ass]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But this assumption is in direct contradiction to the previous assumption; which is impossible! ');"><sup>10</sup></span> But [the only way out of the difficulty is to conclude that] the Tanna dealt with different cases in the different parts of the Mishnah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H], 'words, words'. ');"><sup>11</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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