1)

What is "Margemah"?

1.

Rashi: It is a slingshot stone. It is to throw, and not to keep it.

2)

What is the comparison to honoring a Kesil?

1.

Rashi: [The honor] does not last.

2.

Rashi (from Chulin 133a): Teaching an improper Talmid is like throwing a rock at the idol Markulis. (He intends to destroy it. He does not realize that through this, he serves it!)

3.

Malbim: This explains why not to answer a Kesil at length, honorably. Rather, answer him disgracefully. Just like it seems to honor a stone if he ties it in a slingshot, this is only to cast it at people and kill them. So is honoring a Kesil via answering with Chachmah. He casts it in a slingshot to kill also people on a pure path, for he transforms your answers to rocks of destruction and heresy.

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