Ketubot 111B

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שאין בה סמיכה ⁠— עמידה שיש בה סמיכה נוחה הימנה.

without support, standing with a support, i.e. an object against which one can lean, is better than it.

וכן אמרו: יצחק ושמעון ואושעיא אמרו דבר אחד: הלכה כרבי יהודה בפרדות. דתניא רבי יהודה אומר: פרדה שתבעה ⁠— אין מרביעין עליה לא סוס ולא חמור, אלא מינה.

And so too, the brothers said to Rabba: Yitzḥak, Shimon, and Oshaya all said the same statement: The halakha is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda with regard to female mules. As it is taught in a baraita that R' Yehuda says: With regard to a female mule in heat, one may not mate a horse or a donkey with her, due to the prohibition against crossbreeding of livestock. Rather, one mates her with one of her kind, another mule.

אמר רב נחמן בר יצחק: יצחק ⁠— זה רבי יצחק נפחא, שמעון ⁠— זה רבי שמעון בן פזי, ואמרי לה: ריש לקיש, אושעיא ⁠— זה רבי אושעיא ברבי.

Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said, in explanation of this last statement of Rabba’s brothers: Yitzḥak is to be identified with R' Yitzḥak Nappaḥa; Shimon is R' Shimon ben Pazi. And some say that he is Reish Lakish, i.e., R' Shimon ben Lakish. Oshaya is R' Oshaya the Distinguished.

אמר רבי אלעזר: עמי הארצות אינן חיים, שנאמר: ״מתים בל יחיו וגו׳״, תניא נמי הכי: ״מתים בל יחיו״, יכול לכל ⁠— תלמוד לומר: ״רפאים בל יקומו״, במרפה עצמו מדברי תורה הכתוב מדבר.

§ R' Elazar said: The common, uneducated people will not come alive in the future, as it is stated: “The dead live not” (Isaiah 26:14). In other words, those who were already considered dead in their lifetimes will not come back to life afterward either. This idea is also taught in a baraita: “The dead live not”; one might have thought that this is referring to everyone, i.e., none of the dead will live again. Therefore, the verse states: “The shades [refa’im] rise not” (Isaiah 26:14). This teaches that the verse is speaking of one who weakens [merapeh] himself from matters of Torah.

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