Related%20passage for Shabbat 19:7

תנו רבנן שעה ראשונה מאכל לודים שניה מאכל לסטים שלישית מאכל יורשין רביעית מאכל פועלים חמישית מאכל כל אדם

now, can you really think that Moses sat and judged all day? when was his learning done? But it is to teach you, Every judge who judges with complete fairness<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'who judges a true judgment according to its truth'. V. Sanh., Sonc. ed., p. 27, n. 8. ');">¹⁷</span> even for a single hour, the Writ gives him credit as though he had become a partner to the Holy One, blessed be He, in the creation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'work of the Beginning'. ');">¹⁸</span> [For] here it is written, 'and the people stood about Moses from the morning into the evening'; whilst elsewhere it is written, and there was morning, and there was evening, one day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. 1, 5. The deduction is based on the similarity of the phrases used in both cases.-Thus, according to Rashi's first reason for their faintness (v. n. 4) he comforted them with the assurance of great reward. According to the second, he told them that they were not bound to sit and judge all day. ');">¹⁹</span>

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