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[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:
>> RYBS assumes that means the hirhur teshuva that the executioner did
>> and that is obviously simple pshat.
> 
> Really?  It's not at all obvious to me.  Where do you see that he
> did any kind of teshuvah?  What words in the gemara indicate any
> such thing?  >>>
> 
> The gemara little before that discusses the classic teshuva case of
> R. Elazar Durdia and Rebbi remarked on that case also

Exactly.  And a few pages before that he made exactly the same remark
about Ketia bar Shalom.  The second story was about teshuvah.  How does
that indicate, in any way at all, that the first and third stories were
also about teshuvah?  Do you think all three stories are about the same
thing?  If so, why tell all three?

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