Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Bava Batra 156:5

[סימן זגם נסן] אמר אביי ר"א ורשב"ג ור' מאיר ורבי נתן וסומכוס ונחום המדי כולהו סבירא להו כי מזבין איניש מידי איהו וכל תשמישתיה מזבין

(Mnemonic <i>ZeGeM NeSeN</i>.)<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This mnemonic is an aid to the memorization of the names of the Rabbis mentioned in the following passage: Z =Eliezer, G = b. Gamaliel, M =Meir, N=Nathan, S =Symmachus, N = Nahum. ');"><sup>12</sup></span> Abaye said: R. Eliezer and R. Simeon b. Gamaliel and R. Meir and R. Nathan and Symmachus and Nahum the Mede are all of the opinion that when a man sells an object he sells it and all its accessories. [As to] R. Eliezer, we learnt: R. Eliezer says: He who sells the building of an olive-press has also sold the beam. [As to] R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, we learnt:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 67b. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> R. Simeon b. Gamaliel says: He who sells a town has also sold the Santer.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra p. 270. ');"><sup>14</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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