Musar for Moed Katan 49:12
פתח עליה רבי אבא ראוי היה רבינו שתשרה עליו שכינה אלא שבבל גרמה ליה
Hisda to them: Should one do for him now something that he did not countenance in his life-time? For R'Tahlifa<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Me. 32b, where as here MS.M., SBH and other texts read R. Helbo who often cites R. Huna's dicta.');"><sup>19</sup></span> said: I myself [once] saw R'Huna when he wanted to sit down on his couch, but there was a scroll of the law lying on it, so he put an inverted jar on the ground and put on it the scroll of the law.
Mesilat Yesharim
It was also forbidden to sit on a bed which a Torah scroll lies upon (Moed Katan 25a). Likewise, they said: "it is forbidden to throw out holy writings, even Halachot (laws) and Agadot" (Eruvin 98a, Rambam Hilchot Sefer Torah ch.10). Likewise, they forbade putting books of the Prophets and Writings on top of the Five Books of Moses (Megilah 27a). These are things that our sages, of blessed memory, forbade on the entire congregation of Israel. But the Chasid should learn from them and add on them in various ways for the honor of the Name of the L-rd, his G-d.
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