Talmud do Królów II 19:1

For blasphemy, from where?³⁰⁷Why does one have to rend his garment when he hears blasphemy since this obligation is not mentioned in the Torah? When king Hezekias heard the words of Rab Šake, he rent his garment³⁰⁸2K.19:1. Since the king heard the blasphemy from his ministers, it proves that one has to rend his garment even if he hears it indirectly. Babli Sanhedrin69a.. Does one have to rent for a Gentile’s blasphemy? According to him who said that Rab Šake was a Gentile, one rends. According to him who said that Rab Šake was a Jew, one does not rend³⁰⁹On the one hand, it is not likely that a high official of the king of Assyria was not an Assyrian. On the other hand, why should a high Assyrian official be able to speak Hebrew unless he was a Jewish apostate? Sanhedrin7:1, Note 231; Babli Sanhedrin60a. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings, The Anchor Bible vol. 11 (1988) p. 230.. Rebbi Hoshaia stated: Both one who heard blasphemy from an Israel or one who heard blasphemy from a Gentile have to rent their garment. What is the reason? Since I am the Eternal, God over all [flesh], should anything be extraordinary to me³¹⁰Jer. 32:26.?

Does one have to rend one’s garments for blasphemy?²²⁹Finally one asks why one has to rend his garment when he hears blasphemy since this obligation is not mentioned in the Torah. Let us hear from the following: When king Hezekias heard the words of Rab Šake, he rent his garment²³⁰2K. 19:1. Since the king heard the blasphemy from his ministers, it proves that one has to rend his garment even if he hears it indirectly. Babli 69a.. Does one have to rend for a Gentile’s blasphemy? According to him who said that Rab Šake was a Gentile, one rends. According to him who said that Rab Šake was an Israel, one does not rend²³¹On the one hand, it is not likely that a high official of the king of Assyria was not an Assyrian. On the other hand, why should a high Assyrian official be able to speak Hebrew unless he was a Jewish apostate? Mo`ed qaṭan 3:6 (83b l. 32); Babli 60a. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings, The Anchor Bible vol. 11 (1988) p. 230.. Rebbi Hoshaia stated: Both one who heard blasphemy from an Israel or one who heard from the mouth of a Gentile has to rend his garment. What is the reason? Since I am the Eternal, God over all flesh, should anything be extraordinary for me²³²Jer. 32:26.?