Quotation for Sanhedrin 215:19
(בראשית ז, כג) וימח את כל היקום אשר על פני האדמה אם אדם חטא בהמה מה חטאה
When R. Dimi came<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 390, n. 1. ');"><sup>37</sup></span> he said: The Holy One, blessed be He, exclaimed, 'I did well in preparing graves for them in the earth.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the wicked are thereby destroyed. ');"><sup>38</sup></span>
Rashi on Genesis
בדורותיו IN HIS GENERATIONS — Some of our Rabbis explain it (this word) to his credit: he was righteous even in his generation; it follows that had he lived in a generation of righteous people he would have been even more righteous owing to the force of good example. Others, however, explain it to his discredit: in comparison with his own generation he was accounted righteous, but had he lived in the generation of Abraham he would have been accounted as of no importance (cf. Sanhedrin 108a).
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