Talmud for Moed Katan 51:13
בשעה ששמעו מאי הוי הא קא שמעי השתא לא ס"ד דכתיב (מלכים ב יט, א) ויהי כשמוע המלך חזקיהו ויקרע את בגדיו המלך קרע והם לא קרעו
between the 'rending' [here] by King Hezekiah and 'rending' [elsewhere].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case of Elisha as explained above from 'and he rent them in two pieces'. II Kings II, 12.');"><sup>17</sup></span> '[Rents] when a scroll of the law has been burnt'. What is the source for this? - What is written: And it came to pass when Jehudi had read three or four columns that he cut it with a penknife and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. XXXVI, 23ff.');"><sup>18</sup></span>
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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Jerusalem Talmud Moed Katan
“And for Jerusalem, and for the Temple.” There came men from Sichem and from Shilo and from Samaria, eight men with shaved beards and torn garments, the first tear is one hand-breadth, the addition anything327Jer. 41:5. Babli 26a.. One who was informed that Jerusalem was destroyed like one who sees Jerusalem in its destruction has to tear. He who sees Jerusalem from Mount Scopus has to tear328Babli 26a.. There are Tannaim who state, he adds to the tear. There are Tannaim who state, the first tear is one hand-breadth, the addition anything329Not nothing but possibly less than the smallest unit of measurement in use.. There are Tannaim who state, the first tear is one hand-breadth, the addition three finger-breadths. Rebbi Yose, Rebbi Jeremiah in the name of Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba; Rebbi Ḥizkiah, Rebbi Jeremiah in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Practice follows him who said, the first tear is one hand-breadth, the addition anything.
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