פושעי ישראל בגופן והא אמרת לית להו תקנתא כי לית להו תקנה ברוב עונות הכא מחצה עונות ומחצה זכיות ואית בהו נמי עון דפושעי ישראל בגופן לא סגיא ליה דלאו והבאתי את השלישית באש ואם לאו ורב חסד מטה כלפי חסד ועליהן אמר דוד אהבתי כי ישמע ה'
Raba added: Among them are the most handsome of the inhabitants of Mahuza, and they shall be called 'sons of Gehinnom'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [The passage is difficult. Read with MS.M. 'The Master said (above) " of="" them="" (of="" the="" intermediate="" class)="" hannah="" said="" lord="" killeth="" and="" maketh="" alive,="" he="" bringeth="" down="" to="" grave="" up".="" r.="" isaac="" b.="" abin="" said,="" their="" faces="" (that="" is,="" shall="" (on="" rising="" from="" gehinnom)="" be="" black="" like="" sides="" pot.="" raba="" added,="" yet="" (despite="" this="" disfigurement)="" they="" more="" beautiful="" than="" most="" handsome="" men="" mahuza="" who="" called="" sons="" gehinnom'.="" v.="" d.s.="" a.l.].');"=""><sup>18</sup></span> The Master said [above]: 'Beth Hillel say, He that abounds in grace inclines [the scales] towards grace'. [How can this be], seeing that it is written, And I shall bring the third part through the fire?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which was explained above to refer to the intermediate.');"><sup>19</sup></span>
Shemirat HaLashon
"When R. Huna b. R. Yehoshua took ill, R. Pappa went to visit him. Seeing that he was gravely ill, he said: 'Ready his escort' [i.e., funeral shrouds]." In the end, however, he recovered, and R. Pappa was embarrassed to be seen by him. [Later,] R. Huna asked him: "What did you see?" [that prompted you to say what you did? (And R. Pappa answered him.)] R. Huna (in response): "I really was designated for death, but the Holy One Blessed be He said [to the angels assigned thereto]: 'Since he is not exacting [in slights to himself], do not be exacting with him.'"
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Mesilat Yesharim
This is obvious, for the Holy One, blessed be He, repays measure for measure (Sanhedrin 90a). Thus he who has mercy and does kindness with others, will also be shown mercy when he is judged and pardoned of his sins with kindliness. For such pardoning is justice, since it corresponds measure for measure to his practice. This is what our sages, of blessed memory, taught: "who is forgiven iniquity? he who overlooks transgression [committed against himself]" (Rosh Hashana 17a).
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Shenei Luchot HaBerit
Still a little later he refers to Jacob's attribute of אמת, when he thanks G–d for making his mission successful with the words: 24,27) ברוך ה' אלוקי אדוני אברהם אשר לא עזב חסדו ואמתו מעם אדוני).
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Mesilat Yesharim
BEARING INSULTS: The second division of humility is in bearing insults. Behold, our sages, of blessed memory, explicitly said: "Who is forgiven iniquity? He who overlooks transgression" (Rosh Hashana 17b).
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Mesilat Yesharim
Likewise they said: "'for the remnant of His inheritance' (Michah 7:18) - for him who makes himself a mere remnant" (Rosh Hashana 17b).
