Moed Katan 29A

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כציפורי בפי הוושט. רבי יוחנן אמר: כפטורי בפי וושט.

as it is for a knotted rope [tzippori] to pass through an eye [veshet] in a ship’s rigging. R' Yoḥanan said: It is as difficult as it is for a halyard [pitirei] to pass through an eye [veshet].

ואמר רבי לוי בר חיתא: הנפטר מן המת, לא יאמר לו ״לך לשלום״, אלא ״לך בשלום״. הנפטר מן החי, לא יאמר לו ״לך בשלום״, אלא ״לך לשלום״.

And R' Levi bar Ḥayyata said: One who departs from the deceased should not say to him: Go to peace, but rather he should say: Go in peace. One who departs from the living should not say to him: Go in peace, but rather he should say: Go to peace.

הנפטר מן המת, לא יאמר לו ״לך לשלום״, אלא ״לך בשלום״, שנאמר: ״ואתה תבא אל אבותיך בשלום״.

One who departs from the deceased should not say to him: Go to peace, but rather: Go in peace, as it is stated: “And you should go to your fathers in peace; you should be buried in a good old age” (Genesis 15:15).

הנפטר מן החי, לא יאמר לו ״לך בשלום״, אלא ״לך לשלום״, שהרי דוד שאמר לאבשלום ״לך בשלום״, הלך ונתלה, יתרו שאמר למשה ״לך לשלום״, הלך והצליח.

One who departs from the living should not say to him: Go in peace, but rather: Go to peace, as David said to Absalom: “Go in peace” (II Samuel 15:9), and he subsequently went and was hanged; whereas Jethro said to Moses: “Go to peace” (Exodus 4:18), and he went and was successful.

ואמר רבי לוי: כל היוצא מבית הכנסת לבית המדרש, ומבית המדרש לבית הכנסת, זוכה ומקבל פני שכינה, שנאמר: ״ילכו מחיל אל חיל יראה אל אלהים בציון״.

And R' Levi said: Anyone who leaves from the synagogue and goes to the study hall or goes from the study hall to the synagogue, i.e., he goes from the mitzva of prayer to the mitzva of Torah study or vice versa, merits to receive the Shekhina, as it is stated: “They go from strength to strength, every one of them appears before God in Zion” (Psalms 84:8).

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