Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 123:4

ורבי יוחנן נמי הכתיב בשברון מתנים ההיא דכי מתחלא ממתנים מתחלא ורב נמי הכתי' ונמס כל לב ורפו כל ידים וכהתה כל רוח שאני שמועה דבית המקדש דתקיפא טובא

As to R. Yohanan, is it not also written, “With the breaking of your loins”? [The meaning of] this is that when [the breaking] begins it does so from the loins. And as to Rav, is it not also written, “And every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be slack, and every spirit shall be faint”? The report of the holy Temple is different since [the calamity] was very severe.

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