Quotation for Sanhedrin 215:21
(בראשית ז, כב) מכל אשר בחרבה מתו ולא דגים שבים
Others say, [He exclaimed,] 'I did not do well in establishing graves for them in the earth;'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Since having regard to their evil they do not deserve an honourable grave but to perish ignominiously by the flood (Yad Ramah).] ');"><sup>41</sup></span> here it is written, And it repented the Lord; whilst elsewhere it is written, And the Lord repented of the evil which he had thought to do unto his people.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXXII, 14. ');"><sup>42</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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