Talmud for Moed Katan 44:23

ת"ר חכם שמת בית מדרשו בטל אב ב"ד שמת כל בתי מדרשות שבעירו בטילין ונכנסין לביהכ"נ ומשנין את מקומן היושבין בצפון יושבין בדרום היושבין בדרום יושבין בצפון נשיא שמת בתי מדרשות כולן בטילין ובני הכנסת נכנסין לבית הכנסת

An objection was raised: '[Those other dignitaries]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One's master, the Nasi, and the president of the Beth din. Cf. infra ');">²⁹</span> were not deemed equal to one's father or mother save in regard to re-uniting [the edges of the rent] alone'. Does not this [inequality] hold also for the Nasi?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In regard to rending the garment publicly.');">³⁰</span> - No, the Nasi alone [is an exception].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In regard to rending the garment publicly.');">³⁰</span> The Nesi'ah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The descendant-successors of R. Judah Ha-nasi were denominated Nesi'ah (Aramaic form of ha-Nasi) .');">³¹</span> died. Said R'Hisda to R'Hanan B'Raba:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. R. Nahman b. Ammi.');">³²</span> Turn the mortar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The mortar was a large crib or trough (for pounding olives for the press or soaking barley for brewing beer) cf. A.Z. ');">³³</span> , upside down, stand on it and show the rending [of garmentsj to all the people! For a Hakam [sage]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The official title of the consultative expert of a constituted Beth din, next in rank to the Ab Beth din, Vice President of the Court and the Nasi. V. Hor., Sonc. ed. p. 101, nn. 6 and 8.');">³⁴</span> one bares [the hand and shoulder] on the right; for the Ab Beth din, on the left, and for a Nasi on both sides'. Our Rabbis taught: When a Hakam dies, his Beth Hamidrash is in vacation; when the Ab Beth din dies all the Colleges in his city are in vacation and [the people of the synagogue]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Han; Asheri etc. read: and the people of his town.');">³⁵</span> enter the synagogue[s] and change their [usual] places: those that [usually] sit in the north sit in the south and those that [usually] sit the south sit in the north. When a Nasi dies, all the Colleges are in vacation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Keth. 103a-b.');">³⁶</span> and the people of the synagogue enter the synagogue<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the Sabbath day.');">³⁷</span>

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