Talmud su Isaia 46:12

Rav had flax which was blighted¹⁵⁷In the Babli, Ḥulin 85b–86a, the story is told of R. Ḥiyya and Rebbi. There, the decision goes against R. Meïr.. He asked the elder Rebbi Ḥiyya, may one slaughter a bird and mix its blood with flax seed? He said, a cadaver¹⁵⁸He could not use the blood of a regularly slaughtered kosher bird since that has to be covered with earth (Lev. 17:13). It seems that his agricultural practice did not allow using the blood of a non-kosher bird.. Why did he not say to him, a torn one¹⁵⁹A kosher bird regularly slaughtered but which was found to have a bodily defect which made it forbidden. In Mishnah Ḥulin 6:2, the anonymous majority (which in the Babli is identified as R. Simeon and his followers) free the blood from the obligation of covering since the bird is not to be eaten but R. Meïr requires covering.? Because of Rebbi Meïr, for Rebbi Meïr said [the blood of] a torn [bird] must be covered. But did not Rebbi Immi say in the name of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish: From the time when they came from the diaspora, flax was never blighted and wine never became vinegar; they considered this to be due to the merit of the Great Rebbi Ḥiyya and his sons¹⁶⁰How could Rav’s flax be blighted when his uncle’s merit should have shielded it.. But Rav is like (Is. 46:12): “Listen to me, mighty of heart, who are far from charity!”¹⁶¹In the Babli, Berakhot 17b, the explanation is by either Rav and Samuel or R. Joḥanan and R. Eleazar. Rebbi Abbahu said, Rebbi Joḥanan and Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish disagree. One says, all the world depend on charity but these on strong arms¹⁶²Since Rav only trusted his own merit, he was not shielded by another’s merit.. But the other one said that all good things and consolations come to the world in their merit but they themselves do not profit at all¹⁶³According to the Babli, no flax in all the Land of Israel was blighted in the times of R. Ḥiyya except his own.. For example Mar Zuṭra¹⁶⁴He seems to be identical with Mar Zuṭra Ḥasida mentioned in the Babli, whose time cannot be ascertained. What is told here of the Babylonian Mar Zuṭra is told in the Babli (loc. cit.) of the Palestinian R. Ḥanina ben Dosa. who prayed and fasted for others but for himself he never fasted.