Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Shabbat 166:3

בעי רב אחדבוי בר אמי ע"ז פחותה מכזית מהו מתקיף לה רב יוסף למאי אילימא לענין איסורא לא יהא אלא זבוב בעל עקרון דתניא (שופטים ח, לג) וישימו (להן) בעל ברית לאלהים זה זבוב בעל עקרון מלמד שכל אחד ואחד עשה דמות יראתו ומניחה בתוך כיסו כיון שזוכרה מוציאה מתוך כיסו ומחבקה ומנשקה אלא לענין טומאה מאי כיון דאיתקיש לשרץ מה שרץ בכעדשה אף ע"ז נמי בכעדשה או דילמא הא איתקיש למת מה מת בכזית אף ע"ז בכזית

Some there are who put the question in the reverse direction: Where an unskilled person cannot replace it, there is no question, for it is as broken. When does the question is if an unskilled person can replace it: what [then]? Since an unskilled person can replace it, it is as though [already] joined [thereto]; or perhaps now it is nevertheless disjoined and loose [separate]? — The question stands over. R. Ahedbuy b. Ammi asked: What of an idol less than an olive in size? R. Joseph demurred to this: In respect of what [does he ask]? Shall we say, in respect of the interdict?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One may not benefit in any way from an idol. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> — let it be no more than the fly [zebub] of Baal Ekron,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A Phoenician idol; cf. II Kings I, 2. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>

Shemirat HaLashon

"I reflected upon the words of Chazal (Shabbath 83b): 'Torah endures only with one who "kills himself" over it, etc.'" That is, [one should imagine] that he has already died, and had completed all of his affairs, and, with them, his life. And he were brought to judgment before the King of kings, the Holy One Blessed be He, for all of the things for which he had spent his life in vanity, and emerging "guilty" in the Heavenly din, he screamed: "Woe unto me, for the wickedness of my acts and of my affairs!" If in the midst of all this he were permitted to return immediately to this world and to repent, he certainly would not hesitate for a moment, and would not incline his ear at all to hear of the business of his house.
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