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Quotation for Ecclesiastes 10:5

יֵ֣שׁ רָעָ֔ה רָאִ֖יתִי תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ כִּשְׁגָגָ֕ה שֶׁיֹּצָ֖א מִלִּפְנֵ֥י הַשַּׁלִּֽיט׃

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which proceedeth from a ruler:

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah

His113R. Joshua ben Levi’s grandson. grandson suffered from choking; there came one, whispered something in the name of Jesus ben Pandera114This name (or Panṭera) is unexplained. [Perhaps a distortion of Greek πανταρκής, Latin Pantarces, “all-helping”, a surname of Jupiter (E. G.)]. and he could breathe. When he left, he asked him115R. Joshua ban Levi asked the Christian missionary., what did you say over him? He answered, such and such words. He said, it would have been better for him had he died and not heard these words. It happened to him116The grandson died., like an erroneous order from a ruler.
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