Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 35:4
ר' אלעזר אמר כאן קודם גזר דין כאן לאחר גזר דין רבי יצחק אמר יפה צעקה לאדם בין קודם גזר דין בין לאחר גזר דין
and was therefore answered, the other did not pray with his whole heart and was not answered. R'Eleazar, however, said: The one man was praying before his final sentence had been pronounced [in heaven], the other after his final sentence had been pronounced. R'Isaac said: Supplication<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'cry'.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah
Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba was standing praying. Rebbi Cahana came and stood behind him in prayer. When Rebbi Ḥiyya had finished, he sat down in order not to walk by him. [Rav Cahana spent a long time praying.]100In this paragraph, the corrector’s additions are from Sanhedrin. After he finished, he told him, is that your way to make your superiors suffer? He told him, I am a descendant of the House of Eli, of whom it is written1011S. 3:14. Babli 18a.: if the sin of the House of Eli would forever be atoned for by sacrifice and offering. By sacrifice and offering it cannot be atoned for, [but] it can be atoned for by prayer. He prayed for him, he reached old age while his fingernails remained red like those of a small child.
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