Talmud for Moed Katan 51:1
ואלו קרעין שאין מתאחין הקורע על אביו ועל אמו ועל רבו שלימדו תורה ועל נשיא ועל אב ב"ד ועל שמועות הרעות ועל ברכת השם ועל ספר תורה שנשרף ועל ערי יהודה ועל המקדש ועל ירושלים וקורע על מקדש ומוסיף על ירושלים
And these are rents that are not [to be] sewed up: One who rends [his clothes] for his father or mother; or his master who taught him Wisdom,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., Torah.');"><sup>1</sup></span> for a Nasi, or Ab Beth din;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');"><sup>2</sup></span> or on hearing evil tidings or [hearing] God's name blasphemed, or when a scroll of the law has been burnt; or at the [sight of the ruined] cities of Judea, the Holy Temple or Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Talmud Moed Katan
Ten tears may not be mended artistically: He who tears for his father, and for his mother, and for his teacher who taught him wisdom, and for the Patriarch, and for the Chief Judge, and because of bad news, and because of blasphemy, and because of burning Torah, and for Jerusalem, and for the Temple288Babli 26a, Semaḥot 9..
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