Question: We find that the measure of punishment is greater than that of good, as the Torah writes (in Ki Savo) "How one pursues a thousand, and two, ten thousand" ...

Question (cont.): And by the measure of good, it says (in Bechukosai) "And five of you will pursue a hundred

Answer: Because by the measure of punishment it speaks with regard to pursuing but not killing, whereas the Pasuk here, where it writes that five of you will pursue a hundred, is the conclusion of the Pasuk "And your enemies will fall before you by the sword. From the Seifer ha'Yashar.

Clarification: 'Sha'ah'is La'av Davka, only it must mean a third of an hour or a quarter of an hour, since the Tosefta says that a good measure is five hundred times the bad one.

Question #1: Tosfos Rebbe asks however, from the spies, where the punishment was 'a day for a year, a day for a year'.. In which case the measure of punishment was more than the measure of good of Miriam?

Question #2: Furthermore, in the first Perek of Chagigah (Daf 5:) Rebbi Yochanan explained (the Pasuk in Yeshayah) "Me they sought day by day" - to mean that whoever studies Torah even for one day, it is as if he has studied it for a whole year'.

Question #2 (cont.): And so too, by the measure of punishment it is written (in Sh'lach-L'cha) "According to the number of days that you spied out the land, forty days ...' - from which we see that they are equal?

Clarification: Rabeinu Chananel explains that she would recite an incantation and the baby would emerge, as they do nowadays when they whisper in the ears of the woman.