תלמוד על ירמיהו 2:7

Rebbi Bar Qiria and Rebbi Eleazar were taking a walk on the road when they saw coffins being brought into the Land from abroad. Rebbi Bar Qiria said to Rebbi Eleazar: What good is that going to do them? I am reading for them (Jer. 2:7) “My inheritance your considered an abomination” during your lifetime, “you came and made My Land impure” in your death. He said to him, when they arrive in the Land, one takes a lump of earth and puts it on the coffin, as it is written (Deut. 32:43) “His earth atones for His people.”

Rebbi Bar Qiria¹³³An otherwise unknown Amora. The name tradition of this paragraph is thoroughly unsatisfactory. In Gen.rabba 97 as well as Tanḥuma Wayeḥi it is Rebbi (R. Jehuda II Nesia) and R. Eleazar. In Pesiqta rabbati 1 it is (a likewise unknown) R. Beroqia and R. Eleazar. and Rebbi Eleazar were talking a walk on the road when they saw coffins being brought into the Land from abroad. Rebbi Bar Qiria said to Rebbi Eleazar: What good is that going to do them? I am reading for them (Jer. 2:7) “My inheritance your considered an abomination¹³⁴Since you did not live in the Land.” during your lifetime, “you came and made My Land impure¹³⁵By the impurity of the dead.” in your death. He said to him, when they arrive in the Land, one takes a lump of earth and puts it on the coffin, as it is written (Deut. 32:43) “His earth atones for His people.¹³⁶Therefore, one puts earth from the Holy Land into or on a coffin even for burial outside the Land. Yalquṭ Psalms 116 directly connects Deut. 32:43 with the earlier statement that even Jeroboam and people like him have a part in the Future World.”