Yerushalmi Bava Metzia 2:11 ירושלמי בבא מציעא ב׳:י״א

MISHNAH: ¹³⁵Mishnah and Halakhah are treated more thoroughly in Horaiot 3:7, 48b (cf. also end of Mishnah Keritut6:9, Tosephta Horaiot 2:5,6). Between his lost property and his father’s lost property, his own has precedence. Between his lost property and his teacher’s lost property, his own has precedence. Between his father’s lost property and his teacher’s lost property, his teacher’s lost property has precedence, for his father brought him to the life of this world, but his teacher who taught him wisdom brought him to the life of the future world. But if his father was his teacher’s equal, his father’s lost property has precedence. If his father and his teacher were carrying loads, he unloads his teacher’s and after that his father’s. If his father and his teacher were jailed, he redeems his teacher and after that redeems his father; but if his father was learned he redeems his father and after that redeems his teacher.

HALAKHAH: “Between his lost property and his father’s lost property,” etc. It was stated¹³⁶A different version in the Babli 33a, Tosephta 2:30, Horaiot 2:5. {The latter text is not in the Yerushalmi appended to the editio princeps of the Babli.}: “Who is his teacher who taught him wisdom? The one who taught him first¹³⁷The elementary school teacher who taught him reading and writing., the words of Rebbi Meïr. Rebbi Jehudah says, the one from whom he received most of his instruction. Rebbi Yose said, anyone who explained a Mishnah to him.” Rav followed Rebbi Meïr, Rebbi Joḥanan Rebbi Jehudah, and Samuel Rebbi Yose.

Rav followed Rebbi Meïr. A person was Rav’s first teacher. He heard that he had died and tore his garment for him.

Rebbi Joḥanan followed Rebbi Jehudah. Rebbi Joḥanan was climbing from Tiberias to Sepphoris when he saw a man descending from there. He asked him, what is new in the big city? He told him, one of the great rabbis died and everbody was running to occupy themselves with him¹³⁸For the burial.. Rebbi Joḥanan understood that it was Rebbi Ḥanina. He sent and brought his good Sabbath clothes and tore them¹³⁹In the Babli, Mo‘ed Qaṭan 25a, “13 silk stolas.”. But did we not state: Any tear which is not in panic is not a tear¹⁴⁰Since really it is forbidden to destroy usable things, tearing one’s clothes in mourning is acceptable only as an expression of acute pain. How could R. Joḥanan make an elaborate ceremony out of it? In the Babli, Mo‘ed Qaṭan 25a, the statement is amoraic, attributed to Samuel.? Rebbi Joḥanan wanted to do more and show his appreciation. But we do not know whether it was because he was his teacher or because of bad news. There is the case of Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba in Sepphoris¹⁴¹This sentence seems to be incomplete. In the Horaiot text: “R. Ḥananiah (read: R. Ḥanina) was leaning on R. Ḥiyya bar Abba in Sepphoris.”. He saw that everybody was running. He asked, why is everybody running? They told him, Rebbi Joḥanan is preaching in Rebbi Banaia’s study house and everybody is running to hear him. He said, praised be the Merciful Who showed me people running while I am alive. In Agadah I explained him everything except Proverbs and Ecclesiastes¹⁴²This proves that R. Ḥanina was a teacher of R. Joḥanan, even though in legal matters R. Joḥanan was the student of R. Hoshaia.. This means every single student¹⁴³Even if he is a student only in homiletics..

Samuel followed Rebbi Yose. A person explained to Samuel: “Two keys, for one he has to go down to his arm-pit and one opens straight;¹⁴⁴Mishnah Tamid 3:6. The doors of the Temple hall could be opened only from the inside. When the door was locked, a Cohen entered from a small side door which led to a guard room. The lock of this side door was hidden; the Cohen had to take the key, reach with his entire arm, up to his arm-pit, behind the partition wall and then insert the key. The second door, from the guard room into the Temple hall, could then be opened by a regular key inserted straight into the keyhole.” that he lowered his hand under his arm-pit until he could insert the key straight. He heard that this one had died and tore his garment for him¹⁴⁵In Horaiot: He removed his phylacteries as s sign of mourning..