Quoting%20commentary for Yoma 138:13

במערבא מתנו הכי רב גידל אמר גדול שגדלו בשם המפורש ורב מתנא אמר (נחמיה ט, לב) האל הגדול הגבור והנורא

The world would then go down. Shall we beg for half-mercy?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To ask that temptation or the tempter should live, but not tempt, is to ask a thing that Heaven will not grant. The tempter lives to tempt. But by depriving its flame of its major glare, by keeping it within lawful limits, one promotes domesticity and prevents depravity.');">¹⁷</span> They do not grant 'halves' in heaven.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To ask that temptation or the tempter should live, but not tempt, is to ask a thing that Heaven will not grant. The tempter lives to tempt. But by depriving its flame of its major glare, by keeping it within lawful limits, one promotes domesticity and prevents depravity.');">¹⁷</span>

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