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 Summary 

 Rabbi Yirmiyah from Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the same was said by Rabbi Yochanan from Rabbi Shimon Hamechuzi from Rabbi Yochanan Hamachusi: Whoever makes an addition to Yom Tov (Isru Chag - based on the verse in 36.1) with food and drink [to show that he regrets the departure of Yom Tov] it is considered by the verse (36.1) as if he built a mizbeach and brought a korban on it (the lesson is that one should always show regret when leaving a mitzvah, such as when you leave the Beis Haknesses or the Shabbos, or when you take steps back after Shmoneh Esrei, you wait a moment before returning).

 Chizkiyah quoting Rabbi Yirmiyah from Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: Mitzvos must be taken standing upright, the way they grow. This is based on the possuk “[The krashim of the mishkan are] upright Shittim wood” (they were marked so as not to turn them upside down). 

We learned in a beraisa also thus: “Upright Shittim wood” - They stood the way they grew. 

Another pshat: They held up their [golden] coating.

 Another pshat: They stand forever. You might think that their hope is gone and they have no outlook for the future, so the possuk tells us that they stand forever (although they were secreted someplace under the Har Habayis by Shlomo, they stand forever. It’s lucky that the Mohammedans do not allow the Israeli archaeologists to dig there and in Me’aras Hamachpelah).

 Chizkiyah quoting Rabbi Yirmiyah from Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: I am capable of absolving the world of judgment (the merit of the tzadik protects the generation, Rabbi Shimon had especial merit because of his great suffering over 13 years in the cave) from the time I was born until now. And with the merit of my son Elazar, from the time of creation until now (the combined merit of tzadikim does not add, it multiplies). If we can add the merit of Yosam ben Uziyahu (his father, sometimes called Azaryah, was stricken with leprosy and could not remain in Yerushalayim, he took over all the functions of government but did not consider himself a king, merely an agent of his father. This humility and Kibud Av helped him reach great heights of perfection), our combined merit would absolve the entire world, from creation until the end of time! (Why he chose Yosam is a puzzle, why not Moshe Rabeinu, why not Rabbi Akiva?) (We see that Avraham expended considerable effort to try and save Sedom. It means that Rabbi Shimon, and perhaps other tzadikim too, could expend considerable effort and save the world. But they do not wish to interfere with the plan of Hakadosh Baruch Hu).