Reference for Shabbat 109:16
ורבי יוחנן אמר מימי חזקיהו שנאמר (ישעיהו ט, ו) למרבה המשרה ולשלום אין קץ על כסא דוד ועל ממלכתו להכין אותה ולסעדה במשפט ובצדקה מעתה ועד עולם קנאת ה' צבאות תעשה זאת וגו':
R. Joseph recited: Read not mikdashi but mekuddashay [my sanctified ones]: this refers to the people who fulfilled the Torah from alef to taw.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first and the last letters of the alphabet — as we say from Alpha to Omega'. Nevertheless they were included, because they had failed to protest. Thus the Almighty retracted from His original intention, the change being for evil. ');"><sup>15</sup></span>
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