[Avodah] mei marom

[Eli Turkel]

<<I don't see how this is relevant, though.  His Olam Haba was not the
result of teshuvah, but rather a reward from RChbT for helping him
("tzadik gozer, veHKBH mekayem").  IOW he got it despite his sins,
not because they had been wiped away>>

Rabbi Yehuda haNasi said said some get their olam haba after many years
and some get it immediately.
RYBS assumes that means the hirhur teshuva that the executioner did and
that is obviously simple pshat. The executioner jumped into the fire as a sign
of his teshuva. Had he just saved RChbT  and returned to his sins he would
have been entitled to nothing special except for one mitzvah against many sins

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Eli Turkel