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I'm trying to locate the source for a rabbinic saying quoted in a Christian commentary on the book of Job by the Hebraist Franz Delitzsch. Here's the relevant bit of the passage: The Talmud has ...
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David
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2021-02-15T15:27:20Z (almost 4 years ago)
Talmudic proverb based on Job 42:10 — source?
I'm trying to locate the source for a rabbinic saying quoted in a Christian commentary on the book of Job by the Hebraist Franz Delitzsch. Here's the [relevant bit of the passage][1]: > The Talmud has borrowed from here the true proverb: כל־המתפלל בעד חברו נענה תחלה, *i.e.* he who prays for his fellow-men always finds acceptance for himself first of all. The comment is attached to Job 42:10. The best I've been able to do with finding a source is [*Bava Kamma* 92a:15][2], but the wording there seems a bit different. This seems to be a very widely cited aphorism, if blog posts [like this one][3] are anything to go by. If anyone could either confirm the source I turned up, or correct it with a better one, I would be exceedingly grateful! [1]: https://archive.org/details/biblicalco2ndjob02deliuoft/page/388/mode/1up [2]: https://www.sefaria.org/Bava_Kamma.92a.15?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en [3]: https://thetalmud.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%9C-%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%97%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95-%D7%A0%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%AA%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94/