Musar for Yoma 141:18
(משלי ח, ד) אליכם אישים אקרא אמר רבי ברכיה אלו תלמידי חכמים שדומין לנשים ועושין גבורה כאנשים ואמר רבי ברכיה הרוצה לנסך יין על גבי המזבח ימלא גרונם של תלמידי חכמים יין שנאמר אליכם אישים אקרא
Rab Judah said: That means the place of markets [public thoroughfare].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Markets may be lands of life, because there is much life in them, or because they furnish 'a living' to many.');"><sup>22</sup></span> For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. III, 2.');"><sup>23</sup></span>
Mesilat Yesharim
The elevation was to such an extent that its kind, all over the world, was blessed, as our sages stated in a Midrash. So too, the food and drink which the holy man eats elevates that food or drink as if it had actually been offered on the altar. This is similar to what our sages, of blessed memory, said: "one who brings a gift to a Torah scholar is as if he had offered first-fruits (Bikurim)" (Ketuvot 105b), and "[if a man wishes to offer a wine libation upon the altar], let him fill the throat of the Torah scholars with wine" (Yomah 71a).
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