Talmud su Salmi 101:78

Concerning flatterers, liars and workers of iniquity,¹³So GRA. V repeats from §1, ‘Sadducees, informers, flatterers’ and adds ‘profaners of God’s Name’. Instead of the Scriptural passages which are cited GRA substitutes Job 13, 16, and Ps. 101, 7, in agreement with Soṭah 42a (Sonc. ed., p. 206). Scripture declares, The wicked shall return to the nether-world,¹⁴Ps. 9, 18. and it further states, That which is crooked cannot be made straight.¹⁵Eccl. 1, 15.

Concerning trustworthy men, them who keep a secret, who return a pledge and who restore a lost object [to its owner] Scripture declares, Mine eyes are upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me.³⁰Ps. 101, 6.

Rebbi Ḥuna in the name of Rebbi Aḥa²³⁴In the printed edition of the Babli (60b), this homily of R. Aḥa is described as having R. Levi as first author. There are many other names given in manuscripts of the Babli.: (Ps. 101:1) “A song of David. Kindness and justice I shall sing, to You, o Eternal, I shall chant.” David said before the Holy One, praise to Him: If You act in kindness towards me, I shall sing. If You act in judgment towards me, I shall sing. In any case, I shall chant.

We have learnt there:¹⁶Ḥag. 11b (Sonc. ed., p. 59). Whoever speculates upon four things, it were better¹⁷Ḥag. reads ‘pity’ instead of ‘see’ (loc. cit., n. 5). for him had he not come into the world, viz.: What is above, what is beneath, what is before, what is after.¹⁸These terms have a temporal significance as to what happened before the Creation and what will happen in the hereafter. For another interpretation, cf. loc. cit., nn. 6-8. This may be compared with the statement, ‘Not only does he pride himself over his fellow-creatures but also over his Creator’. If being of unclean limbs he rebels against his Creator, how much more so if a perfumed odour filled him! This is what the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Hiram, king of Tyre,¹⁹Cf. B.B. 75a (Sonc. ed., p. 302). Ezek. 28 is addressed against the Prince of Tyre, identified in the Talmud with king Hiram. The Prince is tauntingly asked whether he could compare himself with Adam, who enjoyed the material delights of Eden (ibid. 13). ‘[At the Creation] I looked upon you [observing your future arrogance] and created the excretory organs of man’.²⁰To curb human pride.
The question was asked: May one pride himself over the agents²¹Explained by ‘The heart and the eye are the two agents of sin’ (j.Ber. I, 5, 3C). who do unworthy deeds by not responding to them or speaking to them? Come and hear: [It is stated,] Whoso is haughty of eye and proud of heart, him will I not suffer.²²Ps. 101, 5. One should respond to them with lax lips but not with levity.

When Rabban Joḥanan ben Zakkai desired that it rained, he said to his barber: stand in front of the Temple: because my rabbi needs to be groomed and is not strong enough to suffer; then immediately it started to rain. When Rav Ada bar Aḥawa desired that it rained, he took off his shoe. If he took both off the world was swamped. There were building collapses; Rav let one of his students sit there until they had emptied the house. After that one left the house, the house collapsed. But some are saying, this was Rav Ada bar Aḥawah¹²⁶In the Babli 20b told of Rav Huna. But the follow-up is there also in the name of Rav Ada bar Ahawa.. The Sages sent and asked him, what good deeds did you do? He told them, never came a person earlier than me to the synagogue, and I never left a person in the synagogue before I left. I did not walk four cubits without Torah¹²⁷But mentally repeating subjects of Torah study; a necessity as long as oral law never was written down., but never mentioned words of the Torah at a smelly place¹²⁸A formal prohibition (cf. Berakhot 2:3).. I never prepared my bed and slept deep sleep¹²⁹In order to study Torah “day and night”., and never walked among the colleagues¹³⁰When the students were sitting on the ground, the teacher may not pass through them since it would look as if he stepped on their heads; he has to go along the wall.. I never called a colleague by a nickname¹³¹A grave sin; Babli Bava meṣia` 58b., and never enjoyed the calamity of a colleague. The curse of a colleague never came on my bed¹³²But I forgave him immediately., and I never went in public to a person who was in debt to me¹³³Not to embarrass him if he could not pay.. I never was angry with my family, to fulfill what was said¹³⁴Ps. 101:2., I shall walk in the simplicity of my heart in the midst of my house.