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במאי דפסיק אנפשיה – כל יומא מכנשי ליה לקיטמיה ודייני ליה, וקלו ליה ומבדרו [ליה] אשב ימי.
That which he decreed against himself, as he undergoes the following: Every day his ashes are gathered, and they judge him, and they burn him, and they scatter him over the 7 seas.
אזל אסקיה לבלעם בנגידא, אמר ליה: מאן חשיב בההוא עלמא? אמר ליה: ישראל. מהו לאידבוקי בהו? אמר ליה: ״לא תדרוש שלומם וטובתם כל הימים״. אמר ליה: דיניה דההוא גברא במאי? אמר ליה: בשכבת זרע רותחת.
Onkelos then went and raised Balaam from the grave through necromancy. He said to him: Who is most important in that world where you are now? Balaam said to him: The Jewish people. Onkelos asked him: Should I then attach myself to them here in this world? Balaam said to him: You should not seek their peace or their welfare all the days (see Deuteronomy 23:7). Onkelos said to him: What is the punishment of that man, a euphemism for Balaam himself, in the next world? Balaam said to him: He is cooked in boiling semen, as he caused Israel to engage in licentious behavior with the daughters of Moab.
אזל אסקיה בנגידא לישו הנוצרי, אמר ליה: מאן חשיב בההוא עלמא? אמר ליה: ישראל. מהו לאדבוקי בהו? אמר ליה: טובתם דרוש, רעתם לא תדרוש, כל הנוגע בהן כאילו נוגע בבבת עינו.
Onkelos then went and raised Jesus the Nazarene from the grave through necromancy. Onkelos said to him: Who is most important in that world where you are now? Jesus said to him: The Jewish people. Onkelos asked him: Should I then attach myself to them in this world? Jesus said to him: Their welfare you should seek, their misfortune you should not seek, for anyone who touches them is regarded as if he were touching the apple of his eye (see Zechariah 2:12).
אמר ליה: דיניה דההוא גברא במאי? אמר ליה: בצואה רותחת. דאמר מר: כל המלעיג על דברי חכמים נידון בצואה רותחת. תא חזי מה בין פושעי ישראל לנביאי אומות העולם.
Onkelos said to him: What is the punishment of that man, a euphemism for Jesus himself, in the next world? Jesus said to him: He is punished with boiling excrement. As the Master said: Anyone who mocks the words of the rabbis will be sentenced to boiling excrement. And this was his sin, as he mocked the words of the rabbis. The Talmud comments: Come and see the difference between the sinners of Israel and the prophets of the non-Jewish nations. As Balaam, who was a prophet, wished Israel harm, whereas Jesus the Nazarene, who was a Jewish sinner, sought their well-being.