Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 35:7
כדרב שמואל בר אמי דאמר רב שמואל בר אמי ואמרי לה אמר רב שמואל בר נחמני אמר רב יונתן מנין לגזר דין שיש עמו שבועה שאינו נקרע שנאמר (שמואל א ג, יד) [ו] לכן נשבעתי לבית עלי אם יתכפר עון בית עלי בזבח ובמנחה
For R'Samuel B'Ammi (or, as some say R'Samuel B'Nahmani) said in the name of R'Jonathan: How do we know that a final sentence accompanied by an oath is never rescinded? Because it says, Therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Sam. III, 14. vcr');"><sup>7</sup></span> Raba said: With sacrifice and offering it cannot be expiated, but it can be expiated with Torah.
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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