Musar for Moed Katan 49:22
כי נח נפשיה דרב חסדא סבור לאותובי ספר תורה אפורייה אמר להו ר' יצחק מילתא דלרביה לא סבירא ליה אנן ניקום נעביד ליה
These citations contradict one another! - This is not difficult [to explain]; the former [ruling obtains] where the body is intact; the latter where the body is not intact, and R'Huna's body was intact. Why did one not go out [to meet it]? Because he had not been fully informed of this.
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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