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Tosafot on Bava Metzia Daf 59b

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זה תנור של עכנאי - יש דגרס חכנאי וכן בירושלמי וחכן זה נחש ושמא בעל התנור שהיה עושה שמו כן:

Sefaria Community Translation

And this is the oven of akhnai: Some have the version, chakhnai, and so is it in the Yerushalmi. And this chakhan is a snake. But perhaps the name of the owner of the oven who made [it] is like this.

לא בשמים היא - והא דאמר בפ"ק דיבמות (ד' יד. ושם ד"ה רבי) דהלכה כב"ה משום דיצאה בת קול שאני הכא שבא לחלוק על דברי תורה דכתיב אחרי רבים להטות אבל התם אדרבה ב"ה רובא אי לאו דהוה מספקא לן אי אזלינן בתר רובא משום דב"ש הוו חריפי טובא ועוד דכאן לא יצאה בת קול אלא משום כבודו דר"א שאמר מן השמים יוכיחו והא דאמר התם רבי יהושע היא דאמר אין משגיחין בבת קול ולא שמעינן ליה לר' יהושע אלא על ב"ק דהאי מעשה דר"א דהכא התם דייק מדקאמר לא בשמים היא כבר ניתנה לנו תורה מסיני משמע דבשום מקום אין משגיחין:

Sefaria Community Translation

It is not in heaven: And that which it said in the first chapter of Yevamot (Yevamot 14a; and see Tosafot on Yevamot 14a, s.v. Rabbi) that the law is like the House of Hillel because a Divine Voice emerged - it is different here; since it is coming to disagree with words of the Torah, as it is written (Exodus 23:2), "After a majority to incline." Whereas there it is just the opposite, the House of Hillel is the majority [such that the law would follow them even without the Divine Voice], if it were not that we were in doubt if we follow the majority, because the House of Shammai is very sharp. And also (another answer) is that here the Divine Voice only emerged on account of the honor of Rabbi Eliezer, who said, "Heaven will prove [it]." And that which it said over there that [disregarding the Divine Voice] is [always the position of] Rabbi Yehoshua, who said that we do not pay attention to a Divine Voice - yet we do not hear it from Rabbi Yehoshua except in this incident of Rabbi Eliezer from here - it is making an exact inference there: Since he says, "It is not in heaven, the Torah was already given from Sinai," it is implied that we do not pay attention [to it] in any place.

קחייך ואמר נצחוני בני - והא דאמר בריש ע"ז (ד' ג:) מיום שחרב בהמ"ק אין שחוק לפני הקב"ה היינו קבוע והכא מילתא דבדיחותא בעלמא הוא דאמר:

Sefaria Community Translation

He, smiled and said, "My children have triumphed over Me": And that which it said at the beginning of Avodah Zarah (3b), "There is no more laughter in front of the Holy One, blessed be He, since the Temple was destroyed" - that is fixed [laughter], whereas here it is just [regarding] a joke that He said.

וקרע בגדיו וחלץ מנעליו - אין להוכיח מכאן הא דמבעיא ליה במועד קטן (ד' טו: ושם ד"ה לא) אם מנודה צריך קריעת בגדים וחלוץ מנעל דדלמא הכא לצערא בעלמא הוא דעבד הכי:

Sefaria Community Translation

He rent his garments and removed his shoes: It cannot be proven from here [about] that which it asked in Moed Katan (Moed Katan 15b; and see Tosafot on Moed Katan, s.v. La), whether one excommunicated must rent his garments and remove his shoes. As perhaps here, he is only doing it from plain distress.

מבית אבי אבא - פי' בקונטרס מבית דוד אבי משפחה שבת נשיאים היתה והם מבית דוד:

Sefaria Community Translation

From the house of the father of my father: [Rashi] explained, "From the House of David, the patriarch of the family. As she was the daughter of leaders (nesiim), and they are from the House of David."

חוץ משערי אונאה - לפי שצער הלב היא וקרוב להוריד דמעות משמע משום דנפקא לעיל מקרא דתהלים דשערי דמעה לא ננעלו ובחנם דחק כן דהא דריש לעיל רב חסדא בהדיא מדכתיב הנה ה' נצב על חומת אנך ושמא מבית רבן גמליאל היתה מקובלת שהיה אבי המשפחה ולאו אדוד קאמר כדאשכחן נמי (ר"ה ד' כה.) דאמר רבן גמליאל מקובלני מבית אבי אבא שפעמים בא בארוכה כו':

Sefaria Community Translation

Except for the gates of mistreatment: [Rashi continues to explain,] "Since [it refers to] the pain of the heart; and it is close to [causing] tears to come down." It is implied [that he explained it this way] because it is derived earlier (59a:5) from a verse in Tehillim (Psalms 39:13). But he forced this for no reason. As behold Rav Chisda expounded earlier (59a:7) explicitly from that which it is written (Amos 7:7), "behold, the Lord stood upon a wall built with a plumb line" (the term for mistreatment and the term for plumb line are spelled in a similar manner). But perhaps she received [the tradition] from the House of Rabban Gamliel [the Elder], as he was the patriarch of the family; and it was not said about David. It is as we find (Rosh HaShanah 25a) also, that Rabban Gamliel said, "I received it from the house of the father of my father, that sometimes [the new moon] comes by a long [path]."

ואמרי לה במ"ו - יש מפרש משום דחשיב כי גרים הייתם וכיוצא בה:

Sefaria Community Translation

And some say 46 - there are those who explain this because they count "because you were strangers in Egypt" and similar ones.

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