Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 197:14

אמר ריש לקיש פעמים

R'Joseph learnt: This teaches us that both the tablets and the fragments of the tablets were deposited in the ark. Hence [we learn that] a scholar who has forgotten his learning through no fault of his<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'by reason of his misfortune'; i.e., through old age, sickness or trouble, but not through wilful neglect.');">¹⁸</span> must not be treated with disrespect.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since even the broken pieces of the tablets were also treated with sanctity and were placed in the ark.');">¹⁹</span> <br>(Mnemonic: Suppression, misdeed, forgets).<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' These words form the subject matter of the following three teachings of Resh Lakish respectively.');">²⁰</span> Resh Lakish said: There are times

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