Once, Rebbi was sitting and expounding that one woman bore

Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Mekhilta Tractate Shirah 9:8 View source
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Once, Rebbi was sitting and expounding that one woman bore sixty ten thousands, when a disciple interjected: Rebbi, who is greater, the world or the tzaddik (a righteous person)? Rebbi replied: The tzaddik. How so? When Yocheved bore Moses, he countervailed the entire world. And where do we find that Moses countervailed the entire world? In (Numbers 26:4) "as the L–rd commended Moses and the children of Israel", and "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel", and (Devarim 34:10) "And there arose no prophet again in Israel like Moses."

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