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and this action brings him to the life of the World-to-Come.
R' Abbahu said: One such as Avimi, my son, properly fulfilled the mitzva of honoring his parents. The Talmud relates: Avimi had 5 sons during his father’s lifetime who were ordained to issue halakhic rulings, and he too was ordained. And yet when R' Abbahu, his father, came and called at the gate
One day R' Abbahu said to Avimi his son: Give me water to drink. Before he brought him the water, R' Abbahu dozed off. Avimi bent over and stood over him until his father awoke. The performance of this mitzva aided him, i.e., as a reward God helped him in his studies, and Avimi succeeded in homil
Rav Ya’akov bar Avuh said to Abaye: With regard to one such as I, so beloved by my parents that before I return from the study hall my father brings me a cup and my mother pours for me, how should I act? Is it disrespectful to accept this honor from them? Abaye said to him: Accept it from your mo
The Talmud relates: R' Tarfon had a certain manner of treating his mother, that whenever she wished to ascend into her bed he would bend over and help her to ascend, and whenever she wished to descend from the bed, she would descend onto him. He came and praised himself in the study hall for perform