Quotation for Yoma 154:16
אמר ר' יהודה בן פזי אף מלאך המות אין לו רשות לעבור בתוכו כתיב הכא בל תלך בו אני שיט וכתיב התם (איוב א, ז) משוט בארץ
Rab Judah answered; Rab and Samuel both agree: One may come over, provided one take not one's hand out of the bosom of his shirt.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., to throw his cloak over his shoulder, it would look as if he were carrying it, rather than wearing it.');"><sup>15</sup></span> Some say: It was R'Samuel, son of Rab Judah who said: We were taught, He may come over, provided he take not his hand out of the bosom of his shirt.
Rashba on Niddah
There are those who explain this according to what is written in ketubot that in the future the dead will be resurrected in their clothing. This is difficult for me because the dead that Yehezkel brought back to life were obligated in mtzvot. As it says in perek Challah (Sanhedrin 92b) "My father from them" in "these are the tefillin that my father from them gave me". It appears to me that in the coming age means from the time of death [the dead will be exempt from mitzvot]. We learn that the living cannot cause the dead to violate a mitzvah, just as a parent cannot cause a child to eat something forbidden. The reason is because is says "the dead are free". Since the dead are freed from mitzvot from the time of death, in the time to come, may it come speedily in our time, we do not want to lead the person astray in the time to come.
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