1. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 3.17, 12.40-12.41, 13.10, 19.9, 19.16, 19.18, 20.2, 24.15-24.18, 40.34-40.35 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 62, 86, 90, 134, 142, 195| 3.17. "וָאֹמַר אַעֲלֶה אֶתְכֶם מֵעֳנִי מִצְרַיִם אֶל־אֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַחִתִּי וְהָאֱמֹרִי וְהַפְּרִזִּי וְהַחִוִּי וְהַיְבוּסִי אֶל־אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ׃", 12.41. "וַיְהִי מִקֵּץ שְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָה וְאַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיְהִי בְּעֶצֶם הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה יָצְאוּ כָּל־צִבְאוֹת יְהוָה מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם׃", 19.9. "וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה הִנֵּה אָנֹכִי בָּא אֵלֶיךָ בְּעַב הֶעָנָן בַּעֲבוּר יִשְׁמַע הָעָם בְּדַבְּרִי עִמָּךְ וְגַם־בְּךָ יַאֲמִינוּ לְעוֹלָם וַיַּגֵּד מֹשֶׁה אֶת־דִּבְרֵי הָעָם אֶל־יְהוָה׃", 19.16. "וַיְהִי בַיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי בִּהְיֹת הַבֹּקֶר וַיְהִי קֹלֹת וּבְרָקִים וְעָנָן כָּבֵד עַל־הָהָר וְקֹל שֹׁפָר חָזָק מְאֹד וַיֶּחֱרַד כָּל־הָעָם אֲשֶׁר בַּמַּחֲנֶה׃", 19.18. "וְהַר סִינַי עָשַׁן כֻּלּוֹ מִפְּנֵי אֲשֶׁר יָרַד עָלָיו יְהוָה בָּאֵשׁ וַיַּעַל עֲשָׁנוֹ כְּעֶשֶׁן הַכִּבְשָׁן וַיֶּחֱרַד כָּל־הָהָר מְאֹד׃", 20.2. "אָנֹכִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר הוֹצֵאתִיךָ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם מִבֵּית עֲבָדִים׃", 20.2. "לֹא תַעֲשׂוּן אִתִּי אֱלֹהֵי כֶסֶף וֵאלֹהֵי זָהָב לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ לָכֶם׃", 24.15. "וַיַּעַל מֹשֶׁה אֶל־הָהָר וַיְכַס הֶעָנָן אֶת־הָהָר׃", 24.16. "וַיִּשְׁכֹּן כְּבוֹד־יְהוָה עַל־הַר סִינַי וַיְכַסֵּהוּ הֶעָנָן שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים וַיִּקְרָא אֶל־מֹשֶׁה בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי מִתּוֹךְ הֶעָנָן׃", 24.17. "וּמַרְאֵה כְּבוֹד יְהוָה כְּאֵשׁ אֹכֶלֶת בְּרֹאשׁ הָהָר לְעֵינֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃", 24.18. "וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה בְּתוֹךְ הֶעָנָן וַיַּעַל אֶל־הָהָר וַיְהִי מֹשֶׁה בָּהָר אַרְבָּעִים יוֹם וְאַרְבָּעִים לָיְלָה׃", 40.34. "וַיְכַס הֶעָנָן אֶת־אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד וּכְבוֹד יְהוָה מָלֵא אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּן׃", 40.35. "וְלֹא־יָכֹל מֹשֶׁה לָבוֹא אֶל־אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד כִּי־שָׁכַן עָלָיו הֶעָנָן וּכְבוֹד יְהוָה מָלֵא אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּן׃", | 3.17. "And I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.", 12.40. "Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.", 12.41. "And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the host of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.", 13.10. "Thou shalt therefore keep this ordice in its season from year to year.", 19.9. "And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever.’ And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.", 19.16. "And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a horn exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.", 19.18. "Now mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.", 20.2. "I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.", 24.15. "And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.", 24.16. "And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the seventh day He called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.", 24.17. "And the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.", 24.18. "And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount; and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.", 40.34. "Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.", 40.35. "And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.—", |
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2. Hebrew Bible, Nahum, 1.3 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 84| 1.3. "יְהֹוָה אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם וגדול־[וּגְדָל־] כֹּחַ וְנַקֵּה לֹא יְנַקֶּה יְהוָה בְּסוּפָה וּבִשְׂעָרָה דַּרְכּוֹ וְעָנָן אֲבַק רַגְלָיו׃", | 1.3. "The LORD is long-suffering, and great in power, And will by no means clear the guilty; The LORD, in the whirlwind and in the storm is His way, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.", |
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3. Hebrew Bible, Joel, 4.14-4.17 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 84| 4.14. "הֲמוֹנִים הֲמוֹנִים בְּעֵמֶק הֶחָרוּץ כִּי קָרוֹב יוֹם יְהוָה בְּעֵמֶק הֶחָרוּץ׃", 4.15. "שֶׁמֶשׁ וְיָרֵחַ קָדָרוּ וְכוֹכָבִים אָסְפוּ נָגְהָם׃", 4.16. "וַיהוָה מִצִּיּוֹן יִשְׁאָג וּמִירוּשָׁלִַם יִתֵּן קוֹלוֹ וְרָעֲשׁוּ שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ וַיהוָה מַחֲסֶה לְעַמּוֹ וּמָעוֹז לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃", 4.17. "וִידַעְתֶּם כִּי אֲנִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם שֹׁכֵן בְּצִיּוֹן הַר־קָדְשִׁי וְהָיְתָה יְרוּשָׁלִַם קֹדֶשׁ וְזָרִים לֹא־יַעַבְרוּ־בָהּ עוֹד׃", | 4.14. "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.", 4.15. "The sun and the moon are become black, And the stars withdraw their shining.", 4.16. "And the LORD shall roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem, And the heavens and the earth shall shake; But the LORD will be a refuge unto His people, And a stronghold to the children of Israel.", 4.17. "So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain; Then shall Jerusalem be holy, And there shall no strangers pass through her any more.", |
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4. Hebrew Bible, Job, 15.5, 25.2 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 86, 88, 89| 15.5. "כִּי יְאַלֵּף עֲוֺנְךָ פִיךָ וְתִבְחַר לְשׁוֹן עֲרוּמִים׃", 25.2. "הַמְשֵׁל וָפַחַד עִמּוֹ עֹשֶׂה שָׁלוֹם בִּמְרוֹמָיו׃", | 15.5. "For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.", 25.2. "Dominion and fear are with Him; He maketh peace in His high places.", |
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5. Hebrew Bible, Hosea, 2.7, 2.15, 2.23-2.24, 12.1, 14.9 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 90| 2.7. "כִּי זָנְתָה אִמָּם הֹבִישָׁה הוֹרָתָם כִּי אָמְרָה אֵלְכָה אַחֲרֵי מְאַהֲבַי נֹתְנֵי לַחְמִי וּמֵימַי צַמְרִי וּפִשְׁתִּי שַׁמְנִי וְשִׁקּוּיָי׃", 2.15. "וּפָקַדְתִּי עָלֶיהָ אֶת־יְמֵי הַבְּעָלִים אֲשֶׁר תַּקְטִיר לָהֶם וַתַּעַד נִזְמָהּ וְחֶלְיָתָהּ וַתֵּלֶךְ אַחֲרֵי מְאַהֲבֶיהָ וְאֹתִי שָׁכְחָה נְאֻם־יְהוָה׃", 2.23. "וְהָיָה בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא אֶעֱנֶה נְאֻם־יְהוָה אֶעֱנֶה אֶת־הַשָּׁמָיִם וְהֵם יַעֲנוּ אֶת־הָאָרֶץ׃", 2.24. "וְהָאָרֶץ תַּעֲנֶה אֶת־הַדָּגָן וְאֶת־הַתִּירוֹשׁ וְאֶת־הַיִּצְהָר וְהֵם יַעֲנוּ אֶת־יִזְרְעֶאל׃", 12.1. "וְאָנֹכִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם עֹד אוֹשִׁיבְךָ בָאֳהָלִים כִּימֵי מוֹעֵד׃", 12.1. "סְבָבֻנִי בְכַחַשׁ אֶפְרַיִם וּבְמִרְמָה בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל וִיהוּדָה עֹד רָד עִם־אֵל וְעִם־קְדוֹשִׁים נֶאֱמָן׃", 14.9. "אֶפְרַיִם מַה־לִּי עוֹד לָעֲצַבִּים אֲנִי עָנִיתִי וַאֲשׁוּרֶנּוּ אֲנִי כִּבְרוֹשׁ רַעֲנָן מִמֶּנִּי פֶּרְיְךָ נִמְצָא׃", | 2.7. "For their mother hath played the harlot, She that conceived them hath done shamefully; For she said: ‘I will go after my lovers, That give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.’", 2.15. "And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, Wherein she offered unto them, And decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot Me, saith the LORD.", 2.23. "And it shall come to pass in that day, I will respond, saith the LORD, I will respond to the heavens, And they shall respond to the earth;", 2.24. "And the earth shall respond to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; And they shall respond to Jezreel.", 12.1. "Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies, And the house of Israel with deceit; And Judah is yet wayward towards God, And towards the Holy One who is faithful.", 14.9. "Ephraim [shall say]: ‘What have I to do any more with idols?’ As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; From Me is thy fruit found.", |
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6. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 3.5, 3.24, 46.4 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 88, 142| 3.5. "כִּי יֹדֵעַ אֱלֹהִים כִּי בְּיוֹם אֲכָלְכֶם מִמֶּנּוּ וְנִפְקְחוּ עֵינֵיכֶם וִהְיִיתֶם כֵּאלֹהִים יֹדְעֵי טוֹב וָרָע׃", 3.24. "וַיְגָרֶשׁ אֶת־הָאָדָם וַיַּשְׁכֵּן מִקֶּדֶם לְגַן־עֵדֶן אֶת־הַכְּרֻבִים וְאֵת לַהַט הַחֶרֶב הַמִּתְהַפֶּכֶת לִשְׁמֹר אֶת־דֶּרֶךְ עֵץ הַחַיִּים׃", 46.4. "אָנֹכִי אֵרֵד עִמְּךָ מִצְרַיְמָה וְאָנֹכִי אַעַלְךָ גַם־עָלֹה וְיוֹסֵף יָשִׁית יָדוֹ עַל־עֵינֶיךָ׃", | 3.5. "for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.’", 3.24. "So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.", 46.4. "I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.’", |
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7. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 3.5, 7.12-7.13, 16.21, 30.4, 32.2, 32.21-32.24, 33.26-33.27 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 84, 87, 89, 90, 91, 195, 214| 3.5. "כָּל־אֵלֶּה עָרִים בְּצֻרוֹת חוֹמָה גְבֹהָה דְּלָתַיִם וּבְרִיחַ לְבַד מֵעָרֵי הַפְּרָזִי הַרְבֵּה מְאֹד׃", 7.12. "וְהָיָה עֵקֶב תִּשְׁמְעוּן אֵת הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים הָאֵלֶּה וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם וַעֲשִׂיתֶם אֹתָם וְשָׁמַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְךָ אֶת־הַבְּרִית וְאֶת־הַחֶסֶד אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ׃", 7.13. "וַאֲהֵבְךָ וּבֵרַכְךָ וְהִרְבֶּךָ וּבֵרַךְ פְּרִי־בִטְנְךָ וּפְרִי־אַדְמָתֶךָ דְּגָנְךָ וְתִירֹשְׁךָ וְיִצְהָרֶךָ שְׁגַר־אֲלָפֶיךָ וְעַשְׁתְּרֹת צֹאנֶךָ עַל הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּע לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ לָתֶת לָךְ׃", 16.21. "לֹא־תִטַּע לְךָ אֲשֵׁרָה כָּל־עֵץ אֵצֶל מִזְבַּח יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲשֶׂה־לָּךְ׃", 30.4. "אִם־יִהְיֶה נִדַּחֲךָ בִּקְצֵה הַשָּׁמָיִם מִשָּׁם יְקַבֶּצְךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמִשָּׁם יִקָּחֶךָ׃", 32.2. "וַיֹּאמֶר אַסְתִּירָה פָנַי מֵהֶם אֶרְאֶה מָה אַחֲרִיתָם כִּי דוֹר תַּהְפֻּכֹת הֵמָּה בָּנִים לֹא־אֵמֻן בָּם׃", 32.2. "יַעֲרֹף כַּמָּטָר לִקְחִי תִּזַּל כַּטַּל אִמְרָתִי כִּשְׂעִירִם עֲלֵי־דֶשֶׁא וְכִרְבִיבִים עֲלֵי־עֵשֶׂב׃", 32.21. "הֵם קִנְאוּנִי בְלֹא־אֵל כִּעֲסוּנִי בְּהַבְלֵיהֶם וַאֲנִי אַקְנִיאֵם בְּלֹא־עָם בְּגוֹי נָבָל אַכְעִיסֵם׃", 32.22. "כִּי־אֵשׁ קָדְחָה בְאַפִּי וַתִּיקַד עַד־שְׁאוֹל תַּחְתִּית וַתֹּאכַל אֶרֶץ וִיבֻלָהּ וַתְּלַהֵט מוֹסְדֵי הָרִים׃", 32.23. "אַסְפֶּה עָלֵימוֹ רָעוֹת חִצַּי אֲכַלֶּה־בָּם׃", 32.24. "מְזֵי רָעָב וּלְחֻמֵי רֶשֶׁף וְקֶטֶב מְרִירִי וְשֶׁן־בְּהֵמוֹת אֲשַׁלַּח־בָּם עִם־חֲמַת זֹחֲלֵי עָפָר׃", 33.26. "אֵין כָּאֵל יְשֻׁרוּן רֹכֵב שָׁמַיִם בְעֶזְרֶךָ וּבְגַאֲוָתוֹ שְׁחָקִים׃", 33.27. "מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם וַיְגָרֶשׁ מִפָּנֶיךָ אוֹיֵב וַיֹּאמֶר הַשְׁמֵד׃", | 3.5. "All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.", 7.12. "And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordices, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with thee the covet and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers,", 7.13. "and He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee.", 16.21. "Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.", 30.4. "If any of thine that are dispersed be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will He fetch thee.", 32.2. "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew; As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.", 32.21. "They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god; They have provoked Me with their vanities; And I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile nation.", 32.22. "For a fire is kindled in My nostril, And burneth unto the depths of the nether-world, And devoureth the earth with her produce, And setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.", 32.23. "I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them;", 32.24. "The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.", 33.26. "There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heaven as thy help, And in His excellency on the skies.", 33.27. "The eternal God is a dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms; And He thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said: ‘Destroy.’", |
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8. Hebrew Bible, Song of Songs, 8.6-8.7 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 91| 8.6. "שִׂימֵנִי כַחוֹתָם עַל־לִבֶּךָ כַּחוֹתָם עַל־זְרוֹעֶךָ כִּי־עַזָּה כַמָּוֶת אַהֲבָה קָשָׁה כִשְׁאוֹל קִנְאָה רְשָׁפֶיהָ רִשְׁפֵּי אֵשׁ שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה׃", 8.7. "מַיִם רַבִּים לֹא יוּכְלוּ לְכַבּוֹת אֶת־הָאַהֲבָה וּנְהָרוֹת לֹא יִשְׁטְפוּהָ אִם־יִתֵּן אִישׁ אֶת־כָּל־הוֹן בֵּיתוֹ בָּאַהֲבָה בּוֹז יָבוּזוּ לוֹ׃", | 8.6. Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm; For love is strong as death, Jealousy is cruel as the grave; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of the LORD. 8.7. Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can the floods drown it; If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned. |
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9. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 14.2-14.25, 17.6-17.25 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 84, 86| 14.2. "וַיִּלֹּנוּ עַל־מֹשֶׁה וְעַל־אַהֲרֹן כֹּל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֲלֵהֶם כָּל־הָעֵדָה לוּ־מַתְנוּ בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם אוֹ בַּמִּדְבָּר הַזֶּה לוּ־מָתְנוּ׃", 14.2. "וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה סָלַחְתִּי כִּדְבָרֶךָ׃", 14.3. "וְלָמָה יְהוָה מֵבִיא אֹתָנוּ אֶל־הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת לִנְפֹּל בַּחֶרֶב נָשֵׁינוּ וְטַפֵּנוּ יִהְיוּ לָבַז הֲלוֹא טוֹב לָנוּ שׁוּב מִצְרָיְמָה׃", 14.3. "אִם־אַתֶּם תָּבֹאוּ אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר נָשָׂאתִי אֶת־יָדִי לְשַׁכֵּן אֶתְכֶם בָּהּ כִּי אִם־כָּלֵב בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּה וִיהוֹשֻׁעַ בִּן־נוּן׃", 14.4. "וַיֹּאמְרוּ אִישׁ אֶל־אָחִיו נִתְּנָה רֹאשׁ וְנָשׁוּבָה מִצְרָיְמָה׃", 14.4. "וַיַּשְׁכִּמוּ בַבֹּקֶר וַיַּעֲלוּ אֶל־רֹאשׁ־הָהָר לֵאמֹר הִנֶּנּוּ וְעָלִינוּ אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־אָמַר יְהוָה כִּי חָטָאנוּ׃", 14.5. "וַיִּפֹּל מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן עַל־פְּנֵיהֶם לִפְנֵי כָּל־קְהַל עֲדַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃", 14.6. "וִיהוֹשֻׁעַ בִּן־נוּן וְכָלֵב בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּה מִן־הַתָּרִים אֶת־הָאָרֶץ קָרְעוּ בִּגְדֵיהֶם׃", 14.7. "וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֶל־כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל לֵאמֹר הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר עָבַרְנוּ בָהּ לָתוּר אֹתָהּ טוֹבָה הָאָרֶץ מְאֹד מְאֹד׃", 14.8. "אִם־חָפֵץ בָּנוּ יְהוָה וְהֵבִיא אֹתָנוּ אֶל־הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת וּנְתָנָהּ לָנוּ אֶרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־הִוא זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ׃", 14.9. "אַךְ בַּיהוָה אַל־תִּמְרֹדוּ וְאַתֶּם אַל־תִּירְאוּ אֶת־עַם הָאָרֶץ כִּי לַחְמֵנוּ הֵם סָר צִלָּם מֵעֲלֵיהֶם וַיהוָה אִתָּנוּ אַל־תִּירָאֻם׃", 14.11. "וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה עַד־אָנָה יְנַאֲצֻנִי הָעָם הַזֶּה וְעַד־אָנָה לֹא־יַאֲמִינוּ בִי בְּכֹל הָאֹתוֹת אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתִי בְּקִרְבּוֹ׃", 14.12. "אַכֶּנּוּ בַדֶּבֶר וְאוֹרִשֶׁנּוּ וְאֶעֱשֶׂה אֹתְךָ לְגוֹי־גָּדוֹל וְעָצוּם מִמֶּנּוּ׃", 14.13. "וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־יְהוָה וְשָׁמְעוּ מִצְרַיִם כִּי־הֶעֱלִיתָ בְכֹחֲךָ אֶת־הָעָם הַזֶּה מִקִּרְבּוֹ׃", 14.14. "וְאָמְרוּ אֶל־יוֹשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת שָׁמְעוּ כִּי־אַתָּה יְהוָה בְּקֶרֶב הָעָם הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר־עַיִן בְּעַיִן נִרְאָה אַתָּה יְהוָה וַעֲנָנְךָ עֹמֵד עֲלֵהֶם וּבְעַמֻּד עָנָן אַתָּה הֹלֵךְ לִפְנֵיהֶם יוֹמָם וּבְעַמּוּד אֵשׁ לָיְלָה׃", 14.15. "וְהֵמַתָּה אֶת־הָעָם הַזֶּה כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד וְאָמְרוּ הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר־שָׁמְעוּ אֶת־שִׁמְעֲךָ לֵאמֹר׃", 14.16. "מִבִּלְתִּי יְכֹלֶת יְהוָה לְהָבִיא אֶת־הָעָם הַזֶּה אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּע לָהֶם וַיִּשְׁחָטֵם בַּמִּדְבָּר׃", 14.17. "וְעַתָּה יִגְדַּל־נָא כֹּחַ אֲדֹנָי כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבַּרְתָּ לֵאמֹר׃", 14.18. "יְהוָה אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם וְרַב־חֶסֶד נֹשֵׂא עָוֺן וָפָשַׁע וְנַקֵּה לֹא יְנַקֶּה פֹּקֵד עֲוֺן אָבוֹת עַל־בָּנִים עַל־שִׁלֵּשִׁים וְעַל־רִבֵּעִים׃", 14.19. "סְלַח־נָא לַעֲוֺן הָעָם הַזֶּה כְּגֹדֶל חַסְדֶּךָ וְכַאֲשֶׁר נָשָׂאתָה לָעָם הַזֶּה מִמִּצְרַיִם וְעַד־הֵנָּה׃", 14.21. "וְאוּלָם חַי־אָנִי וְיִמָּלֵא כְבוֹד־יְהוָה אֶת־כָּל־הָאָרֶץ׃", 14.22. "כִּי כָל־הָאֲנָשִׁים הָרֹאִים אֶת־כְּבֹדִי וְאֶת־אֹתֹתַי אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂיתִי בְמִצְרַיִם וּבַמִּדְבָּר וַיְנַסּוּ אֹתִי זֶה עֶשֶׂר פְּעָמִים וְלֹא שָׁמְעוּ בְּקוֹלִי׃", 14.23. "אִם־יִרְאוּ אֶת־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתִּי לַאֲבֹתָם וְכָל־מְנַאֲצַי לֹא יִרְאוּהָ׃", 14.24. "וְעַבְדִּי כָלֵב עֵקֶב הָיְתָה רוּחַ אַחֶרֶת עִמּוֹ וַיְמַלֵּא אַחֲרָי וַהֲבִיאֹתִיו אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־בָּא שָׁמָּה וְזַרְעוֹ יוֹרִשֶׁנָּה׃", 14.25. "וְהָעֲמָלֵקִי וְהַכְּנַעֲנִי יוֹשֵׁב בָּעֵמֶק מָחָר פְּנוּ וּסְעוּ לָכֶם הַמִּדְבָּר דֶּרֶךְ יַם־סוּף׃", 17.6. "וַיִּלֹּנוּ כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל מִמָּחֳרָת עַל־מֹשֶׁה וְעַל־אַהֲרֹן לֵאמֹר אַתֶּם הֲמִתֶּם אֶת־עַם יְהוָה׃", 17.7. "וַיְהִי בְּהִקָּהֵל הָעֵדָה עַל־מֹשֶׁה וְעַל־אַהֲרֹן וַיִּפְנוּ אֶל־אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד וְהִנֵּה כִסָּהוּ הֶעָנָן וַיֵּרָא כְּבוֹד יְהוָה׃", 17.8. "וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן אֶל־פְּנֵי אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד׃", 17.9. "וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר׃", 17.11. "וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־אַהֲרֹן קַח אֶת־הַמַּחְתָּה וְתֶן־עָלֶיהָ אֵשׁ מֵעַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ וְשִׂים קְטֹרֶת וְהוֹלֵךְ מְהֵרָה אֶל־הָעֵדָה וְכַפֵּר עֲלֵיהֶם כִּי־יָצָא הַקֶּצֶף מִלִּפְנֵי יְהוָה הֵחֵל הַנָּגֶף׃", 17.12. "וַיִּקַּח אַהֲרֹן כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר מֹשֶׁה וַיָּרָץ אֶל־תּוֹך הַקָּהָל וְהִנֵּה הֵחֵל הַנֶּגֶף בָּעָם וַיִּתֵּן אֶת־הַקְּטֹרֶת וַיְכַפֵּר עַל־הָעָם׃", 17.13. "וַיַּעֲמֹד בֵּין־הַמֵּתִים וּבֵין הַחַיִּים וַתֵּעָצַר הַמַּגֵּפָה׃", 17.14. "וַיִּהְיוּ הַמֵּתִים בַּמַּגֵּפָה אַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר אֶלֶף וּשְׁבַע מֵאוֹת מִלְּבַד הַמֵּתִים עַל־דְּבַר־קֹרַח׃", 17.15. "וַיָּשָׁב אַהֲרֹן אֶל־מֹשֶׁה אֶל־פֶּתַח אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד וְהַמַּגֵּפָה נֶעֱצָרָה׃", 17.16. "וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר׃", 17.17. "דַּבֵּר אֶל־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְקַח מֵאִתָּם מַטֶּה מַטֶּה לְבֵית אָב מֵאֵת כָּל־נְשִׂיאֵהֶם לְבֵית אֲבֹתָם שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר מַטּוֹת אִישׁ אֶת־שְׁמוֹ תִּכְתֹּב עַל־מַטֵּהוּ׃", 17.18. "וְאֵת שֵׁם אַהֲרֹן תִּכְתֹּב עַל־מַטֵּה לֵוִי כִּי מַטֶּה אֶחָד לְרֹאשׁ בֵּית אֲבוֹתָם׃", 17.19. "וְהִנַּחְתָּם בְּאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד לִפְנֵי הָעֵדוּת אֲשֶׁר אִוָּעֵד לָכֶם שָׁמָּה׃", 17.21. "וַיְדַבֵּר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיִּתְּנוּ אֵלָיו כָּל־נְשִׂיאֵיהֶם מַטֶּה לְנָשִׂיא אֶחָד מַטֶּה לְנָשִׂיא אֶחָד לְבֵית אֲבֹתָם שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר מַטּוֹת וּמַטֵּה אַהֲרֹן בְּתוֹךְ מַטּוֹתָם׃", 17.22. "וַיַּנַּח מֹשֶׁה אֶת־הַמַּטֹּת לִפְנֵי יְהוָה בְּאֹהֶל הָעֵדֻת׃", 17.23. "וַיְהִי מִמָּחֳרָת וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה אֶל־אֹהֶל הָעֵדוּת וְהִנֵּה פָּרַח מַטֵּה־אַהֲרֹן לְבֵית לֵוִי וַיֹּצֵא פֶרַח וַיָּצֵץ צִיץ וַיִּגְמֹל שְׁקֵדִים׃", 17.24. "וַיֹּצֵא מֹשֶׁה אֶת־כָּל־הַמַּטֹּת מִלִּפְנֵי יְהוָה אֶל־כָּל־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיִּרְאוּ וַיִּקְחוּ אִישׁ מַטֵּהוּ׃", 17.25. "וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה הָשֵׁב אֶת־מַטֵּה אַהֲרֹן לִפְנֵי הָעֵדוּת לְמִשְׁמֶרֶת לְאוֹת לִבְנֵי־מֶרִי וּתְכַל תְּלוּנֹּתָם מֵעָלַי וְלֹא יָמֻתוּ׃", | 14.2. "And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them: ‘Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would we had died in this wilderness!", 14.3. "And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?’", 14.4. "And they said one to another: ‘Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.’", 14.5. "Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.", 14.6. "And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes.", 14.7. "And they spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: ‘The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.", 14.8. "If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us—a land which floweth with milk and honey.", 14.9. "Only rebel not against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us; their defence is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us; fear them not.’", 14.10. "But all the congregation bade stone them with stones, when the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.", 14.11. "And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘How long will this people despise Me? and how long will they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?", 14.12. "I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.’", 14.13. "And Moses said unto the LORD: ‘When the Egyptians shall hear—for Thou broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them—", 14.14. "they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud standeth over them, and Thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;", 14.15. "now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying:", 14.16. "Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore unto them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness.", 14.17. "And now, I pray Thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as Thou hast spoken, saying:", 14.18. "The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.", 14.19. "Pardon, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of Thy lovingkindness, and according as Thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.’", 14.20. "And the LORD said: ‘I have pardoned according to thy word’", 14.21. "But in very deed, as I live—and all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD—", 14.22. "surely all those men that have seen My glory, and My signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to proof these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice;", 14.23. "surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it.", 14.24. "But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.", 14.25. "Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the Vale; tomorrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.’", 17.6. "But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying: ‘Ye have killed the people of the LORD.’", 17.7. "And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting; and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.", 17.8. "And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.", 17.9. "And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:", 17.10. "’Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.’ And they fell upon their faces.", 17.11. "And Moses said unto Aaron: ‘Take thy fire-pan, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from the LORD: the plague is begun.’", 17.12. "And Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.", 17.13. "And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.", 17.14. "Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.", 17.15. "And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stayed.", 17.16. "And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:", 17.17. "‘Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers’house, of all their princes according to their fathers’houses, twelve rods; thou shalt write every man’s name upon his rod.", 17.18. "And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head of their fathers’houses.", 17.19. "And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.", 17.20. "And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.’", 17.21. "And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’houses, even twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.", 17.22. "And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.", 17.23. "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.", 17.24. "And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel; and they looked, and took every man his rod.", 17.25. "and the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept there, for a token against the rebellious children; that there may be made an end of their murmurings against Me, that they die not.’", |
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10. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 18.8-18.20, 49.15, 68.5, 68.8-68.18, 89.6, 89.8, 91.15, 93.3-93.4, 97.3, 104.4, 104.7, 110.1-110.2, 110.5-110.6, 114.3, 145.13 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 21, 62, 84, 86, 91, 142, 214| 18.8. "וַתִּגְעַשׁ וַתִּרְעַשׁ הָאָרֶץ וּמוֹסְדֵי הָרִים יִרְגָּזוּ וַיִּתְגָּעֲשׁוּ כִּי־חָרָה לוֹ׃", 18.9. "עָלָה עָשָׁן בְּאַפּוֹ וְאֵשׁ־מִפִּיו תֹּאכֵל גֶּחָלִים בָּעֲרוּ מִמֶּנּוּ׃", 18.11. "וַיִּרְכַּב עַל־כְּרוּב וַיָּעֹף וַיֵּדֶא עַל־כַּנְפֵי־רוּחַ׃", 18.12. "יָשֶׁת חֹשֶׁךְ סִתְרוֹ סְבִיבוֹתָיו סֻכָּתוֹ חֶשְׁכַת־מַיִם עָבֵי שְׁחָקִים׃", 18.13. "מִנֹּגַהּ נֶגְדּוֹ עָבָיו עָבְרוּ בָּרָד וְגַחֲלֵי־אֵשׁ׃", 18.14. "וַיַּרְעֵם בַּשָּׁמַיִם יְהוָה וְעֶלְיוֹן יִתֵּן קֹלוֹ בָּרָד וְגַחֲלֵי־אֵשׁ׃", 18.15. "וַיִּשְׁלַח חִצָּיו וַיְפִיצֵם וּבְרָקִים רָב וַיְהֻמֵּם׃", 18.16. "וַיֵּרָאוּ אֲפִיקֵי מַיִם וַיִּגָּלוּ מוֹסְדוֹת תֵּבֵל מִגַּעֲרָתְךָ יְהוָה מִנִּשְׁמַת רוּחַ אַפֶּךָ׃", 18.17. "יִשְׁלַח מִמָּרוֹם יִקָּחֵנִי יַמְשֵׁנִי מִמַּיִם רַבִּים׃", 18.18. "יַצִּילֵנִי מֵאֹיְבִי עָז וּמִשֹּׂנְאַי כִּי־אָמְצוּ מִמֶּנִּי׃", 18.19. "יְקַדְּמוּנִי בְיוֹם־אֵידִי וַיְהִי־יְהוָה לְמִשְׁעָן לִי׃", 49.15. "כַּצֹּאן לִשְׁאוֹל שַׁתּוּ מָוֶת יִרְעֵם וַיִּרְדּוּ בָם יְשָׁרִים לַבֹּקֶר וצירם [וְצוּרָם] לְבַלּוֹת שְׁאוֹל מִזְּבֻל לוֹ׃", 68.5. "שִׁירוּ לֵאלֹהִים זַמְּרוּ שְׁמוֹ סֹלּוּ לָרֹכֵב בָּעֲרָבוֹת בְּיָהּ שְׁמוֹ וְעִלְזוּ לְפָנָיו׃", 68.8. "אֱלֹהִים בְּצֵאתְךָ לִפְנֵי עַמֶּךָ בְּצַעְדְּךָ בִישִׁימוֹן סֶלָה׃", 68.9. "אֶרֶץ רָעָשָׁה אַף־שָׁמַיִם נָטְפוּ מִפְּנֵי אֱלֹהִים זֶה סִינַי מִפְּנֵי אֱלֹהִים אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃", 68.11. "חַיָּתְךָ יָשְׁבוּ־בָהּ תָּכִין בְּטוֹבָתְךָ לֶעָנִי אֱלֹהִים׃", 68.12. "אֲדֹנָי יִתֶּן־אֹמֶר הַמְבַשְּׂרוֹת צָבָא רָב׃", 68.13. "מַלְכֵי צְבָאוֹת יִדֹּדוּן יִדֹּדוּן וּנְוַת בַּיִת תְּחַלֵּק שָׁלָל׃", 68.14. "אִם־תִּשְׁכְּבוּן בֵּין שְׁפַתָּיִם כַּנְפֵי יוֹנָה נֶחְפָּה בַכֶּסֶף וְאֶבְרוֹתֶיהָ בִּירַקְרַק חָרוּץ׃", 68.15. "בְּפָרֵשׂ שַׁדַּי מְלָכִים בָּהּ תַּשְׁלֵג בְּצַלְמוֹן׃", 68.16. "הַר־אֱלֹהִים הַר־בָּשָׁן הַר גַּבְנֻנִּים הַר־בָּשָׁן׃", 68.17. "לָמָּה תְּרַצְּדוּן הָרִים גַּבְנֻנִּים הָהָר חָמַד אֱלֹהִים לְשִׁבְתּוֹ אַף־יְהוָה יִשְׁכֹּן לָנֶצַח׃", 68.18. "רֶכֶב אֱלֹהִים רִבֹּתַיִם אַלְפֵי שִׁנְאָן אֲדֹנָי בָם סִינַי בַּקֹּדֶשׁ׃", 89.6. "וְיוֹדוּ שָׁמַיִם פִּלְאֲךָ יְהוָה אַף־אֱמוּנָתְךָ בִּקְהַל קְדֹשִׁים׃", 89.8. "אֵל נַעֲרָץ בְּסוֹד־קְדֹשִׁים רַבָּה וְנוֹרָא עַל־כָּל־סְבִיבָיו׃", 91.15. "יִקְרָאֵנִי וְאֶעֱנֵהוּ עִמּוֹ־אָנֹכִי בְצָרָה אֲחַלְּצֵהוּ וַאֲכַבְּדֵהוּ׃", 93.3. "נָשְׂאוּ נְהָרוֹת יְהוָה נָשְׂאוּ נְהָרוֹת קוֹלָם יִשְׂאוּ נְהָרוֹת דָּכְיָם׃", 93.4. "מִקֹּלוֹת מַיִם רַבִּים אַדִּירִים מִשְׁבְּרֵי־יָם אַדִּיר בַּמָּרוֹם יְהוָה׃", 97.3. "אֵשׁ לְפָנָיו תֵּלֵךְ וּתְלַהֵט סָבִיב צָרָיו׃", 104.4. "עֹשֶׂה מַלְאָכָיו רוּחוֹת מְשָׁרְתָיו אֵשׁ לֹהֵט׃", 104.7. "מִן־גַּעֲרָתְךָ יְנוּסוּן מִן־קוֹל רַעַמְךָ יֵחָפֵזוּן׃", 110.1. "לְדָוִד מִזְמוֹר נְאֻם יְהוָה לַאדֹנִי שֵׁב לִימִינִי עַד־אָשִׁית אֹיְבֶיךָ הֲדֹם לְרַגְלֶיךָ׃", 110.2. "מַטֵּה־עֻזְּךָ יִשְׁלַח יְהוָה מִצִּיּוֹן רְדֵה בְּקֶרֶב אֹיְבֶיךָ׃", 110.5. "אֲדֹנָי עַל־יְמִינְךָ מָחַץ בְּיוֹם־אַפּוֹ מְלָכִים׃", 110.6. "יָדִין בַּגּוֹיִם מָלֵא גְוִיּוֹת מָחַץ רֹאשׁ עַל־אֶרֶץ רַבָּה׃", 114.3. "הַיָּם רָאָה וַיָּנֹס הַיַּרְדֵּן יִסֹּב לְאָחוֹר׃", 145.13. "מַלְכוּתְךָ מַלְכוּת כָּל־עֹלָמִים וּמֶמְשֶׁלְתְּךָ בְּכָל־דּוֹר וָדוֹר׃", | 18.8. "Then the earth did shake and quake, the foundations also of the mountains did tremble; they were shaken, because He was wroth.", 18.9. "Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.", 18.10. "He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and thick darkness was under His feet.", 18.11. "And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He did swoop down upon the wings of the wind.", 18.12. "He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.", 18.13. "At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds Hailstones and coals of fire.", 18.14. "The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High gave forth His voice; hailstones and coals of fire.", 18.15. "And He sent out His arrows, and scattered them; and He shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.", 18.16. "And the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at Thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils.", 18.17. "He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.", 18.18. "He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, and from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.", 18.19. "They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was a stay unto me.", 18.20. "He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.", 49.15. "Like sheep they are appointed for the nether-world; death shall be their shepherd; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their form shall be for the nether-world to wear away, That there be no habitation for it.", 68.5. "Sing unto God, sing praises to His name; Extol Him that rideth upon the skies, whose name is the LORD; And exult ye before Him.", 68.8. "O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, When Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah", 68.9. "The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; Even yon Sinai trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.", 68.10. "A bounteous rain didst Thou pour down, O God; When Thine inheritance was weary, Thou didst confirm it.", 68.11. "Thy flock settled therein; Thou didst prepare in Thy goodness for the poor, O God.", 68.12. "The Lord giveth the word; The women that proclaim the tidings are a great host.", 68.13. "Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.", 68.14. "When ye lie among the sheepfolds, The wings of the dove are covered with silver, And her pinions with the shimmer of gold. .", 68.15. "When the Almighty scattereth kings therein, It snoweth in Zalmon.", 68.16. "A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan.", 68.17. "Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, At the mountain which God hath desired for His abode? Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.", 68.18. "The chariots of God are myriads, even thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in holiness.", 89.6. "So shall the heavens praise Thy wonders, O LORD, Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.", 89.8. "A God dreaded in the great council of the holy ones, And feared of all them that are about Him?", 91.15. "He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him, and bring him to honour.", 93.3. "The floods have lifted up, O LORD, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their roaring.", 93.4. "Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, The LORD on high is mighty.", 97.3. "A fire goeth before Him, And burneth up His adversaries round about.", 104.4. "Who makest winds Thy messengers, the flaming fire Thy ministers.", 104.7. "At Thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of Thy thunder they hasted away—", 110.1. "A Psalm of David. The LORD saith unto my lord: ‘Sit thou at My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.'", 110.2. "The rod of Thy strength the LORD will send out of Zion: 'Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.'", 110.5. "The Lord at thy right hand Doth crush kings in the day of His wrath.", 110.6. "He will judge among the nations; He filleth it with the dead bodies, He crusheth the head over a wide land.", 114.3. "The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan turned backward.", 145.13. "Thy kingdom is a kingdom for all ages, And Thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.", |
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11. Hebrew Bible, 1 Samuel, 12.10 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 90 | 12.10. "And they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served the Ba῾alim and the ῾Ashtarot: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve Thee.", |
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12. Hebrew Bible, Habakkuk, 3.5, 3.8, 3.15 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 91| 3.5. "לְפָנָיו יֵלֶךְ דָּבֶר וְיֵצֵא רֶשֶׁף לְרַגְלָיו׃", 3.8. "הֲבִנְהָרִים חָרָה יְהוָה אִם בַּנְּהָרִים אַפֶּךָ אִם־בַּיָּם עֶבְרָתֶךָ כִּי תִרְכַּב עַל־סוּסֶיךָ מַרְכְּבֹתֶיךָ יְשׁוּעָה׃", 3.15. "דָּרַכְתָּ בַיָּם סוּסֶיךָ חֹמֶר מַיִם רַבִּים׃", | 3.5. "Before him goeth the pestilence, and fiery bolts go forth at His feet.", 3.8. "Is it, O LORD, that against the rivers, is it that Thine anger is kindled against the rivers, or Thy wrath against the sea? That Thou dost ride upon Thy horses, upon Thy chariots of victory?", 3.15. "Thou hast trodden the sea with Thy horses, the foaming of mighty waters.", |
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13. Hebrew Bible, Judges, 5.4-5.5, 5.20-5.21, 10.6 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 84, 90| 5.4. "יְהוָה בְּצֵאתְךָ מִשֵּׂעִיר בְּצַעְדְּךָ מִשְּׂדֵה אֱדוֹם אֶרֶץ רָעָשָׁה גַּם־שָׁמַיִם נָטָפוּ גַּם־עָבִים נָטְפוּ מָיִם׃", 5.5. "הָרִים נָזְלוּ מִפְּנֵי יְהוָה זֶה סִינַי מִפְּנֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃", 5.21. "נַחַל קִישׁוֹן גְּרָפָם נַחַל קְדוּמִים נַחַל קִישׁוֹן תִּדְרְכִי נַפְשִׁי עֹז׃", 10.6. "וַיֹּסִפוּ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לַעֲשׂוֹת הָרַע בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה וַיַּעַבְדוּ אֶת־הַבְּעָלִים וְאֶת־הָעַשְׁתָּרוֹת וְאֶת־אֱלֹהֵי אֲרָם וְאֶת־אֱלֹהֵי צִידוֹן וְאֵת אֱלֹהֵי מוֹאָב וְאֵת אֱלֹהֵי בְנֵי־עַמּוֹן וְאֵת אֱלֹהֵי פְלִשְׁתִּים וַיַּעַזְבוּ אֶת־יְהוָה וְלֹא עֲבָדוּהוּ׃", | 5.4. "Lord, when Thou didst go out of Se῾ir, when Thou didst march out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.", 5.5. "The mountains melted from before the Lord, that Sinay before the Lord God of Yisra᾽el.", 5.20. "They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.", 5.21. "The wadi of Qishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook of Qishon. O my soul, march on in strength.", 10.6. "And the children of Yisra᾽el continued to do evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Ba῾alim, and the ῾Ashtarot, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Żidon, and the gods of Mo᾽av, and the gods of the children of ῾Ammon, and the gods of the Pelishtim, and forsook the Lord, and served him not.", |
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14. Hebrew Bible, Amos, 1.2, 7.4 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 84, 91| 1.2. "וַיֹּאמַר יְהוָה מִצִיּוֹן יִשְׁאָג וּמִירוּשָׁלִַם יִתֵּן קוֹלוֹ וְאָבְלוּ נְאוֹת הָרֹעִים וְיָבֵשׁ רֹאשׁ הַכַּרְמֶל׃", 7.4. "כֹּה הִרְאַנִי אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה וְהִנֵּה קֹרֵא לָרִב בָּאֵשׁ אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה וַתֹּאכַל אֶת־תְּהוֹם רַבָּה וְאָכְלָה אֶת־הַחֵלֶק׃", | 1.2. "And he said: The LORD roareth from Zion, And uttereth His voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.", 7.4. "Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.", |
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15. Hebrew Bible, Jeremiah, 25.30-25.31 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 84| 25.31. "בָּא שָׁאוֹן עַד־קְצֵה הָאָרֶץ כִּי רִיב לַיהוָה בַּגּוֹיִם נִשְׁפָּט הוּא לְכָל־בָּשָׂר הָרְשָׁעִים נְתָנָם לַחֶרֶב נְאֻם־יְהוָה׃", | 25.30. "Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them: The LORD doth roar from on high, And utter His voice from His holy habitation; He doth mightily roar because of His fold; He giveth a shout, as they that tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.", 25.31. "A noise is come even to the end of the earth; For the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, He doth plead with all flesh; As for the wicked, He hath given them to the sword, Saith the LORD.", |
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16. Hebrew Bible, 1 Kings, 11.5 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 90| 11.5. "וַיֵּלֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה אַחֲרֵי עַשְׁתֹּרֶת אֱלֹהֵי צִדֹנִים וְאַחֲרֵי מִלְכֹּם שִׁקֻּץ עַמֹּנִים׃", | 11.5. "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites.", |
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17. Hebrew Bible, 2 Samuel, 7.23, 23.31 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 91, 142| 7.23. "וּמִי כְעַמְּךָ כְּיִשְׂרָאֵל גּוֹי אֶחָד בָּאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר הָלְכוּ־אֱלֹהִים לִפְדּוֹת־לוֹ לְעָם וְלָשׂוּם לוֹ שֵׁם וְלַעֲשׂוֹת לָכֶם הַגְּדוּלָּה וְנֹרָאוֹת לְאַרְצֶךָ מִפְּנֵי עַמְּךָ אֲשֶׁר פָּדִיתָ לְּךָ מִמִּצְרַיִם גּוֹיִם וֵאלֹהָיו׃", 23.31. "אֲבִי־עַלְבוֹן הָעַרְבָתִי עַזְמָוֶת הַבַּרְחֻמִי׃", | 7.23. "And what one nation in the earth is like Thy people, like Yisra᾽el, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make himself a name, and to do like the great things and terrible which Thou didst for Thy land, by driving out from before Thy people, whom Thou didst redeem to Thee from Miżrayim, the nations and their gods?", 23.31. "Avi-῾alvon the ῾Arvatite, ῾Azmavet the Barĥumite,", |
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18. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 14.4-14.23, 19.1, 24.21, 34.2, 34.4-34.5, 51.1, 63.9 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 84, 87, 89, 134, 142, 214| 14.4. "וְנָשָׂאתָ הַמָּשָׁל הַזֶּה עַל־מֶלֶךְ בָּבֶל וְאָמָרְתָּ אֵיךְ שָׁבַת נֹגֵשׂ שָׁבְתָה מַדְהֵבָה׃", 14.5. "שָׁבַר יְהוָה מַטֵּה רְשָׁעִים שֵׁבֶט מֹשְׁלִים׃", 14.6. "מַכֶּה עַמִּים בְּעֶבְרָה מַכַּת בִּלְתִּי סָרָה רֹדֶה בָאַף גּוֹיִם מֻרְדָּף בְּלִי חָשָׂךְ׃", 14.7. "נָחָה שָׁקְטָה כָּל־הָאָרֶץ פָּצְחוּ רִנָּה׃", 14.8. "גַּם־בְּרוֹשִׁים שָׂמְחוּ לְךָ אַרְזֵי לְבָנוֹן מֵאָז שָׁכַבְתָּ לֹא־יַעֲלֶה הַכֹּרֵת עָלֵינוּ׃", 14.9. "שְׁאוֹל מִתַּחַת רָגְזָה לְךָ לִקְרַאת בּוֹאֶךָ עוֹרֵר לְךָ רְפָאִים כָּל־עַתּוּדֵי אָרֶץ הֵקִים מִכִּסְאוֹתָם כֹּל מַלְכֵי גוֹיִם׃", 14.11. "הוּרַד שְׁאוֹל גְּאוֹנֶךָ הֶמְיַת נְבָלֶיךָ תַּחְתֶּיךָ יֻצַּע רִמָּה וּמְכַסֶּיךָ תּוֹלֵעָה׃", 14.12. "אֵיךְ נָפַלְתָּ מִשָּׁמַיִם הֵילֵל בֶּן־שָׁחַר נִגְדַּעְתָּ לָאָרֶץ חוֹלֵשׁ עַל־גּוֹיִם׃", 14.13. "וְאַתָּה אָמַרְתָּ בִלְבָבְךָ הַשָּׁמַיִם אֶעֱלֶה מִמַּעַל לְכוֹכְבֵי־אֵל אָרִים כִּסְאִי וְאֵשֵׁב בְּהַר־מוֹעֵד בְּיַרְכְּתֵי צָפוֹן׃", 14.14. "אֶעֱלֶה עַל־בָּמֳתֵי עָב אֶדַּמֶּה לְעֶלְיוֹן׃", 14.15. "אַךְ אֶל־שְׁאוֹל תּוּרָד אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵי־בוֹר׃", 14.16. "רֹאֶיךָ אֵלֶיךָ יַשְׁגִּיחוּ אֵלֶיךָ יִתְבּוֹנָנוּ הֲזֶה הָאִישׁ מַרְגִּיז הָאָרֶץ מַרְעִישׁ מַמְלָכוֹת׃", 14.17. "שָׂם תֵּבֵל כַּמִּדְבָּר וְעָרָיו הָרָס אֲסִירָיו לֹא־פָתַח בָּיְתָה׃", 14.18. "כָּל־מַלְכֵי גוֹיִם כֻּלָּם שָׁכְבוּ בְכָבוֹד אִישׁ בְּבֵיתוֹ׃", 14.19. "וְאַתָּה הָשְׁלַכְתָּ מִקִּבְרְךָ כְּנֵצֶר נִתְעָב לְבוּשׁ הֲרֻגִים מְטֹעֲנֵי חָרֶב יוֹרְדֵי אֶל־אַבְנֵי־בוֹר כְּפֶגֶר מוּבָס׃", 14.21. "הָכִינוּ לְבָנָיו מַטְבֵּחַ בַּעֲוֺן אֲבוֹתָם בַּל־יָקֻמוּ וְיָרְשׁוּ אָרֶץ וּמָלְאוּ פְנֵי־תֵבֵל עָרִים׃", 14.22. "וְקַמְתִּי עֲלֵיהֶם נְאֻם יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת וְהִכְרַתִּי לְבָבֶל שֵׁם וּשְׁאָר וְנִין וָנֶכֶד נְאֻם־יְהוָה׃", 14.23. "וְשַׂמְתִּיהָ לְמוֹרַשׁ קִפֹּד וְאַגְמֵי־מָיִם וְטֵאטֵאתִיהָ בְּמַטְאֲטֵא הַשְׁמֵד נְאֻם יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת׃", 19.1. "מַשָּׂא מִצְרָיִם הִנֵּה יְהוָה רֹכֵב עַל־עָב קַל וּבָא מִצְרַיִם וְנָעוּ אֱלִילֵי מִצְרַיִם מִפָּנָיו וּלְבַב מִצְרַיִם יִמַּס בְּקִרְבּוֹ׃", 19.1. "וְהָיוּ שָׁתֹתֶיהָ מְדֻכָּאִים כָּל־עֹשֵׂי שֶׂכֶר אַגְמֵי־נָפֶשׁ׃", 24.21. "וְהָיָה בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יִפְקֹד יְהוָה עַל־צְבָא הַמָּרוֹם בַּמָּרוֹם וְעַל־מַלְכֵי הָאֲדָמָה עַל־הָאֲדָמָה׃", 34.2. "כִּי קֶצֶף לַיהוָה עַל־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִם וְחֵמָה עַל־כָּל־צְבָאָם הֶחֱרִימָם נְתָנָם לַטָּבַח׃", 34.4. "וְנָמַקּוּ כָּל־צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם וְנָגֹלּוּ כַסֵּפֶר הַשָּׁמָיִם וְכָל־צְבָאָם יִבּוֹל כִּנְבֹל עָלֶה מִגֶּפֶן וּכְנֹבֶלֶת מִתְּאֵנָה׃", 34.5. "כִּי־רִוְּתָה בַשָּׁמַיִם חַרְבִּי הִנֵּה עַל־אֱדוֹם תֵּרֵד וְעַל־עַם חֶרְמִי לְמִשְׁפָּט׃", 51.1. "שִׁמְעוּ אֵלַי רֹדְפֵי צֶדֶק מְבַקְשֵׁי יְהוָה הַבִּיטוּ אֶל־צוּר חֻצַּבְתֶּם וְאֶל־מַקֶּבֶת בּוֹר נֻקַּרְתֶּם׃", 51.1. "הֲלוֹא אַתְּ־הִיא הַמַּחֲרֶבֶת יָם מֵי תְּהוֹם רַבָּה הַשָּׂמָה מַעֲמַקֵּי־יָם דֶּרֶךְ לַעֲבֹר גְּאוּלִים׃", 63.9. "בְּכָל־צָרָתָם לא [לוֹ] צָר וּמַלְאַךְ פָּנָיו הוֹשִׁיעָם בְּאַהֲבָתוֹ וּבְחֶמְלָתוֹ הוּא גְאָלָם וַיְנַטְּלֵם וַיְנַשְּׂאֵם כָּל־יְמֵי עוֹלָם׃", | 14.4. "that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased! The exactress of gold ceased!", 14.5. "The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers,", 14.6. "That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.", 14.7. "The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet; they break forth into singing.", 14.8. "Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon: ‘Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.’", 14.9. "The nether-world from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; the shades are stirred up for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; all the kings of the nations are raised up from their thrones.", 14.10. "All they do answer And say unto thee: ‘Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?", 14.11. "Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world, And the noise of thy psalteries; the maggot is spread under thee, And the worms cover thee.’", 14.12. "How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, That didst cast lots over the nations!", 14.13. "And thou saidst in thy heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, Above the stars of God Will I exalt my throne, And I will sit upon the mount of meeting, In the uttermost parts of the north;", 14.14. "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.’", 14.15. "Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world, To the uttermost parts of the pit.", 14.16. "They that saw thee do narrowly look upon thee, They gaze earnestly at thee: ‘Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, That did shake kingdoms;", 14.17. "That made the world as a wilderness, And destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?’", 14.18. "All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.", 14.19. "But thou art cast forth away from thy grave Like an abhorred offshoot, In the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, That go down to the pavement of the pit, As a carcass trodden under foot.", 14.20. "Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, Thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.", 14.21. "Prepare ye slaughter for his children For the iniquity of their fathers; That they rise not up, and possess the earth, And fill the face of the world with cities.", 14.22. "And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remt, and offshoot and offspring, saith the LORD.", 14.23. "I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.", 19.1. "The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, And cometh unto Egypt; And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence, And the heart of Egypt shall melt within it.", 24.21. "And it shall come to pass in that day, That the LORD will punish the host of the high heaven on high, And the kings of the earth upon the earth.", 34.2. "For the LORD hath indignation against all the nations, And fury against all their host; He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter.", 34.4. "And all the host of heaven shall moulder away, And the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; And all their host shall fall down, As the leaf falleth off from the vine, And as a falling fig from the fig-tree.", 34.5. "For My sword hath drunk its fill in heaven; Behold, it shall come down upon Edom, And upon the people of My ban, to judgment.", 51.1. "Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, Ye that seek the LORD; Look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, And to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.", 63.9. "In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. .", |
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19. Hebrew Bible, Ezekiel, 28.1-28.19 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 87, 88| 28.1. "מוֹתֵי עֲרֵלִים תָּמוּת בְּיַד־זָרִים כִּי אֲנִי דִבַּרְתִּי נְאֻם אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה׃", 28.1. "וַיְהִי דְבַר־יְהוָה אֵלַי לֵאמֹר׃", 28.2. "בֶּן־אָדָם אֱמֹר לִנְגִיד צֹר כֹּה־אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהֹוִה יַעַן גָּבַהּ לִבְּךָ וַתֹּאמֶר אֵל אָנִי מוֹשַׁב אֱלֹהִים יָשַׁבְתִּי בְּלֵב יַמִּים וְאַתָּה אָדָם וְלֹא־אֵל וַתִּתֵּן לִבְּךָ כְּלֵב אֱלֹהִים׃", 28.2. "וַיְהִי דְבַר־יְהוָה אֵלַי לֵאמֹר׃", 28.3. "הִנֵּה חָכָם אַתָּה מדנאל [מִדָּנִיֵּאל] כָּל־סָתוּם לֹא עֲמָמוּךָ׃", 28.4. "בְּחָכְמָתְךָ וּבִתְבוּנָתְךָ עָשִׂיתָ לְּךָ חָיִל וַתַּעַשׂ זָהָב וָכֶסֶף בְּאוֹצְרוֹתֶיךָ׃", 28.5. "בְּרֹב חָכְמָתְךָ בִּרְכֻלָּתְךָ הִרְבִּיתָ חֵילֶךָ וַיִּגְבַּהּ לְבָבְךָ בְּחֵילֶךָ׃", 28.6. "לָכֵן כֹּה אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה יַעַן תִּתְּךָ אֶת־לְבָבְךָ כְּלֵב אֱלֹהִים׃", 28.7. "לָכֵן הִנְנִי מֵבִיא עָלֶיךָ זָרִים עָרִיצֵי גּוֹיִם וְהֵרִיקוּ חַרְבוֹתָם עַל־יְפִי חָכְמָתֶךָ וְחִלְּלוּ יִפְעָתֶךָ׃", 28.8. "לַשַּׁחַת יוֹרִדוּךָ וָמַתָּה מְמוֹתֵי חָלָל בְּלֵב יַמִּים׃", 28.9. "הֶאָמֹר תֹּאמַר אֱלֹהִים אָנִי לִפְנֵי הֹרְגֶךָ וְאַתָּה אָדָם וְלֹא־אֵל בְּיַד מְחַלְלֶיךָ׃", 28.11. "וַיְהִי דְבַר־יְהוָה אֵלַי לֵאמֹר׃", 28.12. "בֶּן־אָדָם שָׂא קִינָה עַל־מֶלֶךְ צוֹר וְאָמַרְתָּ לּוֹ כֹּה אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה אַתָּה חוֹתֵם תָּכְנִית מָלֵא חָכְמָה וּכְלִיל יֹפִי׃", 28.13. "בְּעֵדֶן גַּן־אֱלֹהִים הָיִיתָ כָּל־אֶבֶן יְקָרָה מְסֻכָתֶךָ אֹדֶם פִּטְדָה וְיָהֲלֹם תַּרְשִׁישׁ שֹׁהַם וְיָשְׁפֵה סַפִּיר נֹפֶךְ וּבָרְקַת וְזָהָב מְלֶאכֶת תֻּפֶּיךָ וּנְקָבֶיךָ בָּךְ בְּיוֹם הִבָּרַאֲךָ כּוֹנָנוּ׃", 28.14. "אַתְּ־כְּרוּב מִמְשַׁח הַסּוֹכֵךְ וּנְתַתִּיךָ בְּהַר קֹדֶשׁ אֱלֹהִים הָיִיתָ בְּתוֹךְ אַבְנֵי־אֵשׁ הִתְהַלָּכְתָּ׃", 28.15. "תָּמִים אַתָּה בִּדְרָכֶיךָ מִיּוֹם הִבָּרְאָךְ עַד־נִמְצָא עַוְלָתָה בָּךְ׃", 28.16. "בְּרֹב רְכֻלָּתְךָ מָלוּ תוֹכְךָ חָמָס וַתֶּחֱטָא וָאֶחַלֶּלְךָ מֵהַר אֱלֹהִים וָאַבֶּדְךָ כְּרוּב הַסֹּכֵךְ מִתּוֹךְ אַבְנֵי־אֵשׁ׃", 28.17. "גָּבַהּ לִבְּךָ בְּיָפְיֶךָ שִׁחַתָּ חָכְמָתְךָ עַל־יִפְעָתֶךָ עַל־אֶרֶץ הִשְׁלַכְתִּיךָ לִפְנֵי מְלָכִים נְתַתִּיךָ לְרַאֲוָה בָךְ׃", 28.18. "מֵרֹב עֲוֺנֶיךָ בְּעֶוֶל רְכֻלָּתְךָ חִלַּלְתָּ מִקְדָּשֶׁיךָ וָאוֹצִא־אֵשׁ מִתּוֹכְךָ הִיא אֲכָלַתְךָ וָאֶתֶּנְךָ לְאֵפֶר עַל־הָאָרֶץ לְעֵינֵי כָּל־רֹאֶיךָ׃", 28.19. "כָּל־יוֹדְעֶיךָ בָּעַמִּים שָׁמְמוּ עָלֶיךָ בַּלָּהוֹת הָיִיתָ וְאֵינְךָ עַד־עוֹלָם׃", | 28.1. "And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:", 28.2. "’Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thy heart is lifted up, And thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, In the heart of the seas; Yet thou art man, and not God, Though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God—", 28.3. "Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that they can hide from thee!", 28.4. "By thy wisdom and by thy discernment Thou hast gotten thee riches, And hast gotten gold and silver Into thy treasures;", 28.5. "In thy great wisdom by thy traffic Hast thou increased thy riches, And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches—", 28.6. "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thy heart As the heart of God;", 28.7. "Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, The terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they shall defile thy brightness. .", 28.8. "They shall bring thee down to the pit; And thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, In the heart of the seas.", 28.9. "Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee: I am God? But thou art man, and not God, In the hand of them that defile thee.", 28.10. "Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers; For I have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.’", 28.11. "Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:", 28.12. "’Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say unto him: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou seal most accurate, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty,", 28.13. "thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.", 28.14. "Thou wast the far-covering cherub; and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire.", 28.15. "Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.", 28.16. "By the multitude of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.", 28.17. "Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may gaze upon thee.", 28.18. "By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee, it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.", 28.19. "All they that know thee among the peoples shall be appalled at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.’", |
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20. Hebrew Bible, Daniel, 7.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 85, 86| 7.13. "חָזֵה הֲוֵית בְּחֶזְוֵי לֵילְיָא וַאֲרוּ עִם־עֲנָנֵי שְׁמַיָּא כְּבַר אֱנָשׁ אָתֵה הֲוָה וְעַד־עַתִּיק יוֹמַיָּא מְטָה וּקְדָמוֹהִי הַקְרְבוּהִי׃", | 7.13. "I saw in the night visions, And, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven One like unto a son of man, And he came even to the Ancient of days, And he was brought near before Him.", |
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| 21. Anon., Sibylline Oracles, 3.796-3.807 (1st cent. BCE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 89 |
| 22. New Testament, Apocalypse, 12 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 86 |
23. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 6.289-6.290 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 89 | 6.289. Thus there was a star resembling a sword, which stood over the city, and a comet, that continued a whole year. 6.290. Thus also before the Jews’ rebellion, and before those commotions which preceded the war, when the people were come in great crowds to the feast of unleavened bread, on the eighth day of the month Xanthicus, [Nisan,] and at the ninth hour of the night, so great a light shone round the altar and the holy house, that it appeared to be bright day time; which light lasted for half an hour. |
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| 24. Anon., Lamentations Rabbah, None (2nd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 197 |
25. Anon., Leviticus Rabba, 23.8 (2nd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 194, 196| 23.8. וְעַתָּה לֹא רָאוּ אוֹר (איוב לז, כא), תָּנָא הָרוֹאֶה הַחַמָּה בִּתְקוּפָתָהּ, לְבָנָה בְּכַדּוּרָהּ, כּוֹכָבִים בִּמְסִלּוֹתָם, מַזָּלוֹת כְּסִדְרָן, אוֹמֵר בָּרוּךְ עוֹשֶׂה מַעֲשֵׂה בְרֵאשִׁית, אָמַר רַב הוּנָא הֲדָא דְאַתְּ אָמַר בִּימוֹת הַגְּשָׁמִים, וּבִלְבָד לְאַחַר שְׁלשָׁה יָמִים. וְעַתָּה לֹא רָאוּ אוֹר, רַבִּי בֶּרֶכְיָה וְרַבִּי יִרְמְיָה בְּרֵיהּ דְּרַבִּי חִיָּא בַּר אַבָּא אָמַר דָּרַשׁ רַבִּי לֵוִי בַּר סִיסִי בִּנְהַרְדָּעָא (שמות כד, י): וַיִּרְאוּ אֶת אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, זֶה עַד שֶׁלֹּא נִגְאָלוּ, אֲבָל מִשֶּׁנִּגְאֲלוּ הֵיכָן הָיְתָה דַרְכָּהּ שֶׁל לְבֵנָה לִנָּתֵן שָׁם הָיְתָה נְתוּנָה. אָמַר רַבִּי בֶּרֶכְיָה מַעֲשֵׂה לִבְנַת הַסַּפִּיר אֵין כְּתִיב כָּאן אֶלָּא (שמות כד, י): כְּמַעֲשֵׂה, הִיא וְכָל אַרְגָּלִיָּא שֶׁלָּהּ נְתָנָהּ, הִיא וְהַסַּל וְהַמַּגְרֵפָה שֶׁלָּהּ נְתָנָהּ. בַּר קַפָּרָא אָמַר עַד שֶׁלֹּא נִגְאֲלוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל מִמִּצְרַיִם הָיְתָה רְשׁוּמָה בָּרָקִיעַ, מִשֶּׁנִּגְאֲלוּ עוֹד לֹא נִרְאֲתָה בָּרָקִיעַ, מַאי טַעְמָא (שמות כד, י): וּכְעֶצֶם הַשָּׁמַיִם לָטֹהַר, כָּךְ אִינוּן נְקִיִּין מִן עֲנָנִין. | |
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| 26. Anon., Mekhilta Derabbi Yishmael, None (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 196 |
| 27. Anon., Mekhilta Derabbi Shimeon Ben Yohai, None (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 142 |
| 28. Palestinian Talmud, Hagigah, 1.2 (2nd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 197 |
29. Anon., Genesis Rabba, 5.1, 12.10 (2nd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 197, 214| 5.1. וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יִקָּווּ הַמַּיִם, כְּתִיב (תהלים קד, ז): מִן גַּעֲרָתְךָ יְנוּסוּן מִן קוֹל וגו', רַבִּי בֶּרֶכְיָה בְּשֵׁם רַבִּי אַבָּא בַּר אַמֵּי אָמַר, יֵעָשֶׂה מִדָּה לַמַּיִם, וְהֵיךְ מָה דְּאַתְּ אָמַר (זכריה א, טז): וְקָו יִנָּטֶה עַל יְרוּשָׁלָיִם. רַבִּי אַבָּא בַּר כַּהֲנָא בְּשֵׁם רַבִּי לֵוִי אָמַר, אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא יִקָּווּ לִי הַמַּיִם, מַה שֶּׁאֲנִי עָתִיד לַעֲשׂוֹת בָּהֶם, מָשָׁל לְמֶלֶךְ שֶׁבָּנָה פַּלְטֵרִין וְהוֹשִׁיב בְּתוֹכָהּ אִלְמִים, וְהָיוּ מַשְׁכִּימִין וְשׁוֹאֲלִים בִּשְׁלוֹמוֹ שֶׁל מֶלֶךְ בִּרְמִיזָה וּבְאֶצְבַּע וּבְמָנוֹלִין, אָמַר הַמֶּלֶךְ אִלּוּ הָיוּ פִּקְחִין עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה, אֶתְמְהָא. הוֹשִׁיב בָּהּ הַמֶּלֶךְ דָּיוֹרִין פִּקְחִין, עָמְדוּ וְהֶחֱזִיקוּ בַּפָּלָטִין, אָמְרוּ אֵין פָּלָטִין זוֹ שֶׁל מֶלֶךְ, שֶׁלָּנוּ הִיא, אָמַר הַמֶּלֶךְ תַּחְזֹר פָּלָטִין לִכְמוֹ שֶׁהָיְתָה. כָּךְ מִתְּחִלַּת בְּרִיָּתוֹ שֶׁל עוֹלָם לֹא הָיָה קִלּוּסוֹ שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא עוֹלֶה אֶלָּא מִן הַמַּיִם, הֲדָא הוּא דִּכְתִיב (תהלים צג, ד): מִקֹּלוֹת מַיִם רַבִּים אַדִּירִים מִשְׁבְּרֵי יָם, וּמָה הָיוּ אוֹמְרִים (תהלים צג, ד): אַדִּיר בַּמָּרוֹם ה'. אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, מָה אִם אֵלּוּ שֶׁאֵין לָהֶן לֹא פֶּה וְלֹא אֲמִירָה וְלֹא דִּבּוּר, וַהֲרֵי הֵן מְקַלְסִין אוֹתִי, כְּשֶׁאֶבְרָא אָדָם, עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה. עָמַד דּוֹר הַמַּבּוּל וּמָרַד בּוֹ, עָמַד דּוֹר אֱנוֹשׁ וּמָרַד בּוֹ, דּוֹר הַפְלָגָה וּמָרַד בּוֹ. אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, יְפֻנּוּ אֵלּוּ וְיַעַמְדוּ וְיָבוֹאוּ אוֹתָן שֶׁיָּשְׁבוּ בָּהֶן מִקֹּדֶם, הֲדָא הוּא דִּכְתִיב (בראשית ז, יב): וַיְהִי הַגֶּשֶׁם עַל הָאָרֶץ אַרְבָּעִים יוֹם וְאַרְבָּעִים לָיְלָה. 5.1. וַיְהִי עֶרֶב וַיְהִי בֹקֶר יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי, יוֹם שֶׁנִּבְרְאוּ בּוֹ גִּבּוֹרִים, הֵיךְ מָה דְאַתְּ אָמַר (יחזקאל כג, כג): שָׁלִשִׁים וּקְרוּאִים רֹכְבֵי סוּסִים כֻּלָּם, כֵּיוָן שֶׁנִּבְרָא הַבַּרְזֶל הִתְחִילוּ הָאִילָנוֹת מְרַתְּתִים, אָמַר לָהֶן, מַה לָּכֶם מְרַתְּתִים, עֵץ מִכֶּם אַל יִכָּנֵס בִּי, וְאֵין אֶחָד מִכֶּם נִזּוֹק. | 5.1. "The waters now are not just jostling for high position. They are crying like a family being torn apart. The lower waters long to go up in order to be reunited with their other half.", |
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30. Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra, None (3rd cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 26, 194, 196, 197| 74b. בר אמוראי לאתויה ורגש ובעי לשמטיה לאטמיה ושדא זיקא דחלא ונחת נפק בת קלא אמר לן מאי אית לכו בהדי קרטליתא דדביתהו דר"ח בן דוסא דעתידה דשדיא תכלתא בה לצדיקי לעלמא דאתי,רב יהודה הינדוא משתעי זימנא חדא הוה אזלינן בספינתא וחזינן ההוא אבן טבא דהוה הדיר לה תנינא נחית בר אמוראי לאתויה אתא תנינא קא בעי למבלע לה לספינתא אתא פישקנצא פסקיה לרישיה אתהפיכו מיא והוו דמא אתא תנינא חבריה שקליה ותליה ליה וחיה הדר אתא קא בעי בלעא לספינתא הדר אתא ציפרא פסקיה לרישיה שקלוה לההיא אבן טבא שדיוה לספינתא הוה הני ציפרי מליחי בהדן אותבינהו עלייהו שקלוה ופרחו להו בהדה,תנו רבנן מעשה ברבי אליעזר ורבי יהושע שהיו באין בספינה והיה ר"א ישן ור' יהושע נעור נזדעזע ר' יהושע וננער ר"א אמר לו מה זה יהושע מפני מה נזדעזעת אמר לו מאור גדול ראיתי בים אמר לו שמא עיניו של לויתן ראית דכתיב (איוב מא, י) עיניו כעפעפי שחר,אמר רב אשי אמר לי הונא בר נתן זימנא חדא הוה קא אזלינן במדברא והואי אטמא דבשרא בהדן פתחנא ונקרינא ואנחנא אעשבי אדמייתינן ציבי חלם אטמא וטוינן כי הדרן לבתר תריסר ירחי שתא חזינהו להנהו גומרי דהוו קא מלחשי כי אתאי לקמיה דאמימר אמר לי ההוא עישבא סמתרי הוה הנהו גומרי דריתמא הוו,(בראשית א, כא) ויברא אלהים את התנינים הגדולים הכא תרגימו ארזילי דימא ר' יוחנן אמר זה לויתן נחש בריח ולויתן נחש עקלתון שנאמר (ישעיהו כז, א) ביום ההוא יפקוד ה' בחרבו הקשה וגו':,(סימן כל שעה ירדן): אמר רב יהודה אמר רב כל מה שברא הקב"ה בעולמו זכר ונקבה בראם אף לויתן נחש בריח ולויתן נחש עקלתון זכר ונקבה בראם ואלמלי נזקקין זה לזה מחריבין כל העולם כולו מה עשה הקב"ה סירס את הזכר והרג הנקבה ומלחה לצדיקים לעתיד לבא שנאמר (ישעיהו כז, א) והרג את התנין אשר בים,ואף בהמות בהררי אלף זכר ונקבה בראם ואלמלי נזקקין זה לזה מחריבין כל העולם כולו מה עשה הקב"ה סירס הזכר וצינן הנקבה ושמרה לצדיקים לעתיד לבא שנאמר (איוב מ, טז) הנה נא כחו במתניו זה זכר ואונו בשרירי בטנו זו נקבה,התם נמי ליסרסיה לזכר וליצננה לנקבה דגים פריצי וליעביד איפכא איבעית אימא נקבה מליחא מעלי איבעית אימא כיון דכתיב (תהלים קד, כו) לויתן זה יצרת לשחק בו בהדי נקבה לאו אורח ארעא הכא נמי לימלחה לנקבה כוורא מליחא מעלי בשרא מליחא לא מעלי,ואמר רב יהודה אמר רב בשעה שביקש הקב"ה לבראות את העולם אמר לו לשר של ים פתח פיך ובלע כל מימות שבעולם אמר לפניו רבש"ע די שאעמוד בשלי מיד בעט בו והרגו שנאמר (איוב כו, יב) בכחו רגע הים ובתבונתו מחץ רהב,אמר ר' יצחק ש"מ שרו של ים רהב שמו ואלמלא מים מכסין אותו אין כל בריה יכולה לעמוד בריחו שנאמר (ישעיהו יא, ט) לא ירעו ולא ישחיתו בכל הר קדשי וגו' כמים לים מכסים אל תקרי לים מכסים אלא לשרה של ים מכסים,ואמר רב יהודה אמר רב ירדן יוצא ממערת פמייס תניא נמי הכי ירדן יוצא ממערת פמייס ומהלך בימה של סיבכי ובימה של טבריא ומתגלגל ויורד לים הגדול ומתגלגל ויורד עד שמגיע לפיו של לויתן שנאמר (איוב מ, כג) יבטח כי יגיח ירדן אל פיהו מתקיף לה רבא בר עולא האי בבהמות בהררי אלף כתיב אלא אמר רבא בר עולא אימתי בהמות בהררי אלף בטוחות בזמן שמגיח ירדן בפיו של לויתן,(סימן ימים גבריאל רעב) כי אתא רב דימי א"ר יוחנן מאי דכתיב (תהלים כד, ב) כי הוא על ימים יסדה ועל נהרות יכוננה אלו שבעה ימים וארבעה נהרות שמקיפין את ארץ ישראל ואלו הן שבעה ימים ימה של טבריא וימה של סדום וימה של חילת וימה של חילתא וימה של סיבכי וים אספמיא וים הגדול ואלו הן ארבעה נהרות ירדן וירמוך וקירומיון ופיגה,כי אתא רב דימי א"ר יונתן עתיד גבריאל לעשות | 74b. i.e., b a diver [ i bar amoraei /i ] /b went into the water b to bring /b up this chest, b and /b the fish b became angry and sought to sever his thigh, but /b the diver b threw /b upon it b a flask of vinegar and they descended /b and swam away. b A Divine Voice emerged /b and b said to us: What /b right b do you have to /b touch b the crate of the wife of Rabbi Ḥanina ben Dosa, as she is destined to insert sky-blue /b wool b in it to /b be used in the ritual fringes of b the righteous in the World-to-Come? /b , b Rav Yehuda from India relates: Once we were traveling in a ship and we saw a certain precious stone that was encircled by a snake. A diver descended to bring it /b up, and the b snake came and sought to swallow the ship. A raven came /b and b cut off its head, /b and b the water turned into blood /b due to the enormousness of the snake. b Another snake came, took /b the precious stone, b and hung it /b on the dead snake, b and it recovered. It returned /b and again b sought to swallow the ship, /b and yet again b a bird came and cut off its head, took that precious stone, /b and b threw it onto the ship. We had with us these salted birds; we placed /b the stone b on them, /b and b they took /b the stone b and flew away with it. /b ,§ Apropos the stories of large sea creatures, the Gemara discusses the large sea creatures mentioned in the Bible. b The Sages taught: /b There was b an incident involving Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua, who were traveling on a ship, and Rabbi Eliezer was sleeping and Rabbi Yehoshua was awake. Rabbi Yehoshua trembled, and Rabbi Eliezer awoke. /b Rabbi Eliezer b said to him: What is this, Yehoshua; for what /b reason b did you tremble? /b Rabbi Yehoshua b said to him: I saw a great light in the sea. /b Rabbi Eliezer b said to him: Perhaps you saw the eyes of the leviathan, as it is written: “And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning” /b (Job 41:10)., b Rav Ashi said: Huna bar Natan said to me: Once we were traveling in the desert, and we had a thigh of meat with us. We cut open /b the thigh b and tore /b off the sciatic nerve and the forbidden fat b and put it on the grass. By /b the time b that we brought wood, the thigh had repaired /b itself, b and we roasted it. When we returned /b to that place b after twelve months /b of b the year /b had passed, b we saw that those coals were still glowing. When I came before Ameimar, he said to me: That grass was a drug of life [ i samterei /i ], /b while b those coals were of broom. /b ,The verse states: b “And God created the great sea monsters” /b (Genesis 1:21). b Here, /b in Babylonia, b they interpreted /b this as a reference to the b sea oryx. Rabbi Yoḥa says: This is leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent, as it is stated: “In that day the Lord with His sore /b and great and strong b sword /b will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent” (Isaiah 27:1).,§ The Gemara provides b a mnemonic /b for the following statements of Rav Yehuda citing Rav: b Everything; time; Jordan. Rav Yehuda says /b that b Rav says: Everything that the Holy One, Blessed be He, created in His world, He created male and female. Even leviathan the slant serpent and leviathan the tortuous serpent He created male and female. And if they would have coupled /b and produced offspring, they would have b destroyed the entire world. What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do? He castrated the male and killed the female, and salted /b the female to preserve it for the banquet b for the righteous in the future. As it is stated: “And He will slay the serpent that is in the sea” /b (Isaiah 27:1)., b And He created even the beasts on the thousand hills /b (see Psalms 50:10) b male and female. And /b they were so enormous that b if they would have coupled /b and produced offspring, b they would have destroyed the entire world. What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do? He castrated the male and cooled /b the sexual desire of b the female and preserved it for the righteous in the future. As it is stated /b about the beasts: b “Lo now, his strength is in his loins” /b (Job 40:16); b this /b is referring to the b male. /b The continuation of the verse: b “And his force is in the stays of his body”; this /b is the b female, /b alluding to the idea that they did not use their genitals for the purpose of procreation.,The Gemara asks: b There too, /b with regard to the leviathan, b let Him castrate the male and cool the female; /b why was it necessary to kill the female? The Gemara answers: b Fish are unrestrained, /b and therefore even if the female was cooled, the female would still procreate. The Gemara suggests: b And let Him do the opposite, /b and kill and preserve the male leviathan. The Gemara responds: b If you wish, say /b that the b salted female is better; if you wish, say /b instead b that /b since b it is written: “There is leviathan, whom You have formed to sport with” /b (Psalms 104:26), the male must be left alive for sport, because it is b not proper conduct /b to sport b with a female. /b The Gemara asks: b Here too, /b with regard to the beasts, b let Him /b preserve the b female in salt, /b instead of cooling it. The Gemara answers: b Salted fish is good, /b but b salted meat is not good. /b , b And Rav Yehuda says /b that b Rav says: At the time when the Holy One, Blessed be He, sought to create the world, He said to the minister of the sea: Open your mouth and swallow all the waters of the world, /b so that there will be room for land. The minister of the sea b said before Him: Master of the Universe, /b it is b enough that I will stay within my own /b waters. God b immediately struck him and killed him; as it is stated: “He stirs up the sea with His power, and by His understanding He smites through Rahab” /b (Job 26:12)., b Rabbi Yitzḥak said: Conclude from here /b that b the name of the minister of the sea is Rahab, and were it not for waters /b of the sea that b cover him, no creature could withstand his smell, /b as his corpse emits a terrible stench. b As it is stated: “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; /b for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, b as the waters cover the sea” /b (Isaiah 11:9). b Do not read /b this phrase as b “cover the sea”; rather /b read it as: b Cover the minister of the sea, /b i.e., the term sea is referring to the minister of the sea, not to the sea itself., b And Rav Yehuda says /b that b Rav says: The Jordan issues forth from the cave of Pamyas. That is also taught /b in a i baraita /i : b The Jordan issues forth from the cave of Pamyas, and travels in the Sea of Sivkhi, /b i.e., the Hula Lake, b and in the Sea of Tiberias, /b the Sea of Galilee, b and rolls down to the Great Sea, and rolls down until it reaches the mouth of the leviathan. As it is stated: “He is confident, though the Jordan rush forth to his mouth” /b (Job 40:23). b Rava bar Ulla strongly objects to this /b explanation of the verse, stating: But b this /b verse b is written about the beasts on the thousand hills. Rather, Rava bar Ulla said /b that this is the meaning of the verse: b When are the beasts on the thousand hills confident? When the Jordan rushes forth into the mouth of the leviathan. /b ,§ The Gemara provides b a mnemonic /b for the upcoming statements of Rav Dimi: b Seas; Gabriel; hungry. When Rav Dimi came /b from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia, he said that b Rabbi Yoḥa said: What /b is the meaning of that b which is written: “For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods” /b (Psalms 24:2)? b These are /b the b seven seas and four rivers that surround Eretz Yisrael. And these are /b the b seven seas: The Sea of Tiberias, the Sea of Sodom, /b i.e., the Dead Sea, b the Sea of Ḥeilat, the Sea of Ḥeilata, the Sea of Sivkhi, the Sea of Aspamya, and the Great Sea, /b i.e., the Mediterranean. b And these are the four rivers: The Jordan, the Jarmuth, and the Keiromyon, and the Piga, /b which are the rivers of Damascus., b When Rav Dimi came /b from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia he said that b Rabbi Yonatan says: In the future, Gabriel will perform /b |
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31. Babylonian Talmud, Yoma, None (3rd cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 198| 54a. כל הדרה מאי כל הדרה חדרה אתה מאי אתה אומר אמר לו שאני אומר ארון במקומו נגנז שנאמר ויאריכו הבדים וגו',אמר ליה רבה לעולא מאי משמע דכתיב (מלכים א ח, ח) ויהיו שם עד היום הזה וכל היכא דכתיב עד היום הזה לעולם הוא והכתיב (שופטים א, כא) ואת היבוסי יושב ירושלם לא הורישו בני בנימין וישב היבוסי את בני בנימין בירושלם עד היום הזה הכי נמי דלא גלו,והתניא ר' יהודה אומר חמשים ושתים שנה לא עבר איש ביהודה שנאמר (ירמיהו ט, ט) על ההרים אשא בכי ונהי ועל נאות מדבר קינה כי נצתו מבלי איש עובר ולא שמעו קול מקנה מעוף השמים ועד בהמה נדדו הלכו בהמה בגימטריא חמשין ושתים הוו,ותניא ר' יוסי אומר שבע שנים נתקיימה גפרית ומלח בארץ ישראל ואמר רבי יוחנן מאי טעמא דרבי יוסי אתיא ברית ברית כתיב הכא (דניאל ט, כז) והגביר ברית לרבים שבוע אחד וכתיב התם (דברים כט, כד) ואמרו על אשר עזבו את ברית ה' אלהי אבותם,אמר ליה הכא כתיב שם התם לא כתיב שם וכל היכא דכתיב שם לעולם הוא מיתיבי (דברי הימים א ד, מב) ומהם מן בני שמעון הלכו להר שעיר אנשים חמש מאות ופלטיה ונעריה ורפיה ועוזיאל בני ישעי בראשם ויכו את שארית הפליטה לעמלק וישבו שם עד היום הזה,וכבר עלה סנחריב מלך אשור ובלבל כל הארצות שנאמר (ישעיהו י, יג) ואסיר גבולות עמים ועתודותיהם שושתי תיובתא,אמר רב נחמן תנא וחכמים אומרים ארון בלשכת דיר העצים היה גנוז אמר רב נחמן בר יצחק אף אנן נמי תנינא מעשה בכהן אחד שהיה מתעסק וראה רצפה משונה מחברותיה ובא והודיע את חבירו ולא הספיק לגמור את הדבר עד שיצתה נשמתו וידעו ביחוד ששם ארון גנוז,מאי הוה עביד אמר רבי חלבו מתעסק בקרדומו היה תנא דבי רבי ישמעאל שני כהנים בעלי מומין היו מתליעין בעצים ונשמטה קרדומו של אחד מהם ונפלה שם ויצתה אש ואכלתו,רב יהודה רמי כתיב (מלכים א ח, ח) ויראו ראשי הבדים וכתיב (מלכים א ח, ח) ולא יראו החוצה הא כיצד נראין ואין נראין תניא נמי הכי ויראו ראשי הבדים יכול לא יהו זזין ממקומן ת"ל ויאריכו הבדים יכול יהו מקרעין בפרוכת ויוצאין ת"ל ולא יראו החוצה,הא כיצד דוחקין ובולטין ויוצאין בפרוכת ונראין כשני דדי אשה שנא' (שיר השירים א, יג) צרור המור דודי לי בין שדי ילין,אמר רב קטינא בשעה שהיו ישראל עולין לרגל מגללין להם את הפרוכת ומראין להם את הכרובים שהיו מעורים זה בזה ואומרים להן ראו חבתכם לפני המקום כחבת זכר ונקבה,מתיב רב חסדא (במדבר ד, כ) ולא יבואו לראות כבלע את הקדש ואמר רב יהודה אמר רב בשעת הכנסת כלים לנרתק שלהם,אמר רב נחמן משל לכלה כל זמן שהיא בבית אביה צנועה מבעלה כיון שבאתה לבית חמיה אינה צנועה מבעלה,מתיב רב חנא בר רב קטינא מעשה בכהן אחד שהיה מתעסק וכו' אמר ליה נתגרשה קא אמרת נתגרשה חזרו לחיבתה הראשונה,במאי עסקינן אי נימא במקדש ראשון מי הואי פרוכת אלא במקדש שני מי הוו כרובים לעולם במקדש ראשון ומאי פרוכת פרוכת דבבי,דאמר רבי זירא אמר רב שלשה עשר פרוכות היו במקדש שבעה כנגד שבעה שערים שתים אחת לפתחו של היכל ואחת לפתחו של אולם שתים בדביר ושתים כנגדן בעליה,רב אחא בר יעקב אמר לעולם במקדש שני וכרובים דצורתא הוו קיימי דכתיב (מלכים א ו, כט) ואת כל קירות הבית מסב קלע (מלכים א ו, לה) כרובים ותמרות ופטורי ציצים וצפה זהב מישר על המחוקה,וכתיב (מלכים א ז, לו) כמער איש ולויות מאי כמער איש ולויות אמר רבה בר רב שילא | 54a. b all her splendor” /b (Lamentations 1:6). b What is /b the meaning of: b “All her splendor [ i hadara /i ]”? /b It means: b Her chamber [ i ḥadra /i ], /b i.e., something that was hidden within the innermost chambers, namely the Ark. b You, /b Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai, b what do you say /b in response to this? b He said to him: As I say, the Ark was buried in its place /b and not exiled, b as it is stated: “And the staves were so long /b that the ends of the staves were seen from the sacred place before the partition, but they could not be seen without; and they are there to this day” (I Kings 8:8)., b Rabba said to Ulla: From where /b in this verse may it b be inferred /b that the Ark was buried in its place? Ulla replied that the source is b as it is written: “And they are there to this day,” /b which is referring to any day when one might read this sentence, i.e., forever. Rabba objected to this explanation: b And /b is it the case that b anywhere that it is written “to this day” it /b means b forever, /b as opposed to the time when the verse was written? b But isn’t it written: “And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwelt with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem, to this day” /b (Judges 1:21)? b So too here, /b let us say b that /b the Jebusites b were not exiled /b from Jerusalem., b But wasn’t it taught /b in a i baraita /i that b Rabbi Yehuda says: No person passed through /b the land of b Judea /b for b fifty-two years /b after the destruction of the Temple by Nebuchadnezzar, b as it is stated: “I will raise crying and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, for they have been burned, with no person passing through. And they do not hear the sound of the cattle; from the bird of the heavens to the beast [ i behema /i ], all have fled and gone” /b (Jeremiah 9:9). b i Behema /i , /b spelled i beit /i , i heh /i , i mem /i , i heh /i , b has a numerical value of fifty-two, /b alluding to the fact that no one passed through the land for fifty-two years., b And it was taught /b in another i baraita /i that b Rabbi Yosei says: /b For b seven years /b a curse of b brimstone and salt endured in Eretz Yisrael, /b rendering it unfit for human habitation. b And Rabbi Yoḥa said: What is the rationale of Rabbi Yosei; /b from where does he learn this? It is b derived from /b a verbal analogy between b “covet” /b and b “covet.” It is written here: “And he shall make a firm covet with many for one week” /b (Daniel 9:27), i.e., seven years. b And it is written there: /b “And that its entire land is brimstone and salt… b They shall say: Because they forsook the covet of the Lord, the God of their fathers” /b (Deuteronomy 29:22; 24). Evidently, the Jebusites must have been exiled from Jerusalem, which proves that the phrase “to this day” does not always mean forever.,Ulla b said to him: Here, /b with regard to the Ark, b it is written: /b “And they are b there”; /b whereas b there, /b in the verse that deals with the Jebusites, b it is not written. And anywhere that “there” is written /b with the phrase “to this day” b it /b means b forever. /b The Gemara b raises an objection /b from the following verse: b “And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir having for their captains Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. And they smote the remt of the Amalekites who escaped, and dwelt there to this day” /b (I Chronicles 4:42–43).,The Gemara explains its objection: b But Sennacherib, king of Assyria, /b had b already come, and /b through his policy of forced population transfer b he had scrambled all /b the nations of b the lands, as it is stated /b in reference to Sennacherib: b “And I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures” /b (Isaiah 10:13). This indicates that the children of Simeon were also exiled, despite the fact that the verse states: “There to this day.” The Gemara concludes: Indeed, this is b a conclusive refutation /b of Ulla’s statement., b Rav Naḥman said /b that a Sage b taught /b in the i Tosefta /i : b And the Rabbis say /b that the b Ark /b of the Covet b was buried in the Chamber of the Woodshed. Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: We, too, have learned /b in a mishna: There was b an incident involving a certain priest who was occupied /b with various matters, b and he saw a floor /b tile in the woodshed that was b different from the others. /b One of the marble floor tiles was higher than the rest, suggesting it had been lifted out and replaced. b He came and informed his friend /b of the uneven tile, b but was unable to finish his report /b and provide the exact location of the tile b before his soul departed /b from his body. b And /b consequently b they knew definitively that the Ark was buried there, /b but its location was meant to be kept secret.,The Gemara asks: b What was he doing, /b that priest who noticed the misplaced tile? b Rabbi Ḥelbo said: He was occupied with his axe, /b i.e., he was banging the floor with his axe. He thereby discovered an empty space under a tile, which he guessed was the opening of a tunnel. b The school of Rabbi Yishmael taught: Two blemished priests were sorting wormy wood when the axe of one of them dropped and fell there, /b into the hole in the floor. Blemished priests were appointed to inspect the wood for worms, as these logs were unfit for use on the altar. b And fire burst out and consumed /b that priest, so the exact location remains unknown.,§ b Rabbi Yehuda raised a contradiction. It is written: “The ends of the staves were seen,” and it is written /b in that same verse: b “But they could not be seen without” /b (I Kings 8:8). b How /b can one reconcile this contradiction? b They were seen and /b yet b not seen, /b i.e., the staves were partially visible. b This was also taught /b in a i baraita /i : b “The ends of the staves were seen”; /b one b might /b have thought that b they did not move from their position /b and did not protrude at all. Therefore, b the verse states: “And the staves were so long.” /b One b might /b have thought that b they ripped through the curtain and emerged /b on the other side; therefore, b the verse states: “They could not be seen without.” /b , b How /b is this so? The staves of the Ark b pushed and protruded and stuck out against the curtain /b toward the outside, b and appeared like the two breasts of a woman /b pushing against her clothes. b As it is stated: “My beloved is to me like a bundle of myrrh, that lies between my breasts” /b (Song of Songs 1:13). For this reason the Ark of the Covet, where the Divine Presence rests, is positioned so that its staves protrude through the curtain, like the breasts of a woman.,Continuing the previous discussion, b Rav Ketina said: When the Jewish people would ascend for /b one of the pilgrimage b Festivals, /b the priests would b roll up the curtain for them and show them the cherubs, which were clinging to one another, and say to them: See how you are beloved before God, like the love of a male and female. /b The two cherubs symbolize the Holy One, Blessed be He, and the Jewish people., b Rav Ḥisda raised an objection: /b How could the priests allow the people to see this? After all, it is stated with regard to the Tabernacle: b “But they shall not go in to see the sacred objects as they are being covered, /b lest they die” (Numbers 4:20), b and Rav Yehuda said /b that b Rav said: When the vessels were put into their containers /b for transport, it was prohibited even for the Levites to look at them. The prohibition against viewing the vessels should be even more severe when they are fixed in their sacred place within the Temple. How could they be publicly displayed?, b Rav Naḥman said /b in answer: This is b analogous to a bride; as long as she is /b engaged but still b in her father’s house, she is modest /b in the presence b of her husband. /b However, b once she /b is married and b comes to her father-in-law’s house /b to live with her husband, b she is no longer modest /b in the presence b of her husband. /b Likewise, in the wilderness, when the Divine Presence did not dwell in a permanent place, it was prohibited to see the sacred objects. By contrast, all were allowed to see the sacred objects in their permanent place in the Temple., b Rav Ḥana bar Rav Ketina raised an objection /b from the aforementioned mishna: There was b an incident involving a certain priest who was occupied /b and discovered the place where the Ark was hidden, and he subsequently died before he could reveal its location. Since he was prevented from seeing the Ark, it was evidently prohibited to see the sacred objects even after the Temple was built. Rav Naḥman b said to him: /b This is not difficult, as b you are speaking /b of when b she was divorced. /b Since the Jewish people were exiled after the destruction of the First Temple, they are compared to a woman divorced from her husband, b and when /b a woman is b divorced she returns to her original beloved /b but reserved state. She is once again modest and does not reveal herself. Likewise, the Divine Presence will remain hidden until the glory of the First Temple is restored.,The Gemara poses a question concerning Rav Ketina’s statement: b With what are we dealing /b here; in what circumstance did the priests roll up the curtain to show everyone the cherubs? b If we say /b this is referring b to /b the b First Temple, was there a curtain /b between the Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies? In the First Temple, there was a wall there. b Rather, /b we will say this is referring b to /b the b Second Temple; /b but b were there cherubs /b there? Since there was no Ark, it follows that there were no cherubs on it. The Gemara answers: b Actually, /b Rav Ketina is referring b to /b the b First Temple, and what is the curtain /b that he mentioned? It is b the curtain of the gates. /b For all of the Jewish people to be able to see, they had to raise the curtains hanging on all the gates., b As Rabbi Zeira said /b that b Rav said: There were thirteen curtains in the /b Second b Temple: Seven opposite, /b i.e., on the inside of, b seven gates; two /b additional ones within the Temple, b one /b of which was b at the entrance to the Sanctuary and /b the other b one /b of which was b at the entrance to the Entrance Hall. Two /b additional curtains were b within the partition, /b in the Holy of Holies in place of the one-cubit partition, b and two corresponding to them /b were above b in the upper chamber. /b Above the Holy of Holies, there was another level in the same layout as the one below, and a curtain was affixed there, too, as no one climbed up to the higher chamber above the Holy of Holies without a pressing need. These curtains were most likely hanging in the First Temple as well., b Rav Aḥa bar Ya’akov said: Actually, /b Rav Ketina’s statement is referring b to /b the b Second Temple: /b There was a curtain at the entrance of the Holy of Holies, b and /b indeed b there were images of cherubs there, /b i.e., drawn or engraved pictures of the cherubs on the walls. b As it is written: “And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubs and palm trees and open flowers, /b within and without” (I Kings 6:29), and it is further stated: b “And he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work” /b (I Kings 6:35), which teaches that in addition to the cherubs within the sacred place, other cherubs were drawn on the walls., b And it is written: “According to the space of each with i loyot /i ” /b (I Kings 7:36). The Gemara asks: b What is /b the meaning of: b “According to the space of each with i loyot /i ”? Rabba bar Rav Sheila said: /b |
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32. Babylonian Talmud, Berachot, None (3rd cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 197, 198| 59b. תנו רבנן הרואה חמה בתקופתה לבנה בגבורתה וכוכבים במסילותם ומזלות כסדרן אומר ברוך עושה בראשית ואימת הוי אמר אביי כל כ"ח שנין והדר מחזור ונפלה תקופת ניסן בשבתאי באורתא דתלת נגהי ארבע:,ר' יהודה אומר הרואה הים וכו': לפרקים עד כמה אמר רמי בר אבא א"ר יצחק עד שלשים יום,ואמר רמי בר אבא א"ר יצחק הרואה פרת אגשרא דבבל אומר ברוך עושה בראשית והאידנא דשניוה פרסאי מבי שבור ולעיל רב יוסף אמר מאיהי דקירא ולעיל ואמר רמי בר אבא הרואה דגלת אגשרא דשביסתנא אומר ברוך עושה בראשית,מאי (בראשית ב, יד) חדקל א"ר אשי שמימיו חדין וקלין מאי פרת שמימיו פרין ורבין,ואמר רבא האי דחריפי בני מחוזא משום דשתו מיא דדגלת האי דגיחורי משום דמשמשי ביממא והאי דניידי עינייהו משום דדיירו בבית אפל:,על הגשמים כו': ועל הגשמים הטוב והמטיב מברך והא"ר אבהו ואמרי לה במתניתא תנא מאימתי מברכין על הגשמים משיצא חתן לקראת כלה,מאי מברכין אמר רב יהודה מודים אנחנו לך על כל טפה וטפה שהורדת לנו ורבי יוחנן מסיים בה הכי אילו פינו מלא שירה כים וכו' אין אנו מספיקין להודות לך ה' אלהינו עד תשתחוה בא"י רוב ההודאות,רוב ההודאות ולא כל ההודאות אמר רבא אימא האל ההודאות א"ר פפא הלכך נימרינהו לתרוייהו רוב ההודאות והאל ההודאות,ואלא קשיא ל"ק הא דשמע משמע הא דחזא מחזי,דשמע משמע היינו בשורות טובות ותנן על בשורות טובות אומר ברוך הטוב והמטיב,אלא אידי ואידי דחזי מחזי ולא קשיא הא דאתא פורתא הא דאתא טובא ואב"א הא והא דאתא טובא ולא קשיא הא דאית ליה ארעא הא דלית ליה ארעא,אית ליה ארעא הטוב והמטיב מברך והא (תנן) בנה בית חדש וקנה כלים חדשים אומר ברוך שהחיינו והגיענו לזמן הזה שלו ושל אחרים אומר הטוב והמטיב,לא קשיא הא דאית ליה שותפות הא דלית ליה שותפות והתניא קצרו של דבר על שלו הוא אומר ברוך שהחיינו וקיימנו על שלו ועל של חבירו אומר ברוך הטוב והמטיב,וכל היכא דלית לאחרינא בהדיה לא מברך הטוב והמטיב והתניא אמרו ליה ילדה אשתו זכר אומר ברוך הטוב והמטיב התם נמי דאיכא אשתו בהדיה דניחא לה בזכר,ת"ש מת אביו והוא יורשו בתחלה אומר ברוך דיין האמת ולבסוף הוא אומר ברוך הטוב והמטיב התם נמי דאיכא אחי דקא ירתי בהדיה,ת"ש שינוי יין א"צ לברך שינוי מקום צריך לברך וא"ר יוסף בר אבא א"ר יוחנן אע"פ שאמרו שינוי יין א"צ לברך אבל אומר ברוך הטוב והמטיב התם נמי דאיכא בני חבורה דשתו בהדיה:,בנה בית חדש וקנה כלים חדשים וכו': א"ר הונא לא שנו אלא שאין לו כיוצא בהן אבל יש לו כיוצא בהן א"צ לברך ור' יוחנן אמר אפילו יש לו כיוצא בהן צריך לברך | 59b. b The Sages taught: One who sees the sun in /b the beginning of b its cycle, the moon in its might, the planets in their orbit, or the signs of the zodiac /b aligned b in their order recites: Blessed…Author of creation. /b The Gemara asks: b And when is it /b that the sun is at the beginning of its cycle? b Abaye said: Every twenty-eight years /b when the b cycle /b is complete and b returns /b to its genesis, b and the Nisan, /b vernal, b equinox, /b when the spring days and nights are of equal length, b falls within /b the constellation of b Saturn on the night of the third and eve of the fourth /b day of the week, as then their arrangement returns to be as it was when the constellations were first placed in the heavens.,We learned in the mishna that b Rabbi Yehuda said: One who sees the great sea /b intermittently b recites: /b Blessed…Who has made the great sea. The Gemara asks: b How much /b is b intermittently? Rami bar Abba said /b that b Rav Yitzḥak said: Thirty days. /b , b And Rami bar Abba said /b that b Rav Yitzḥak said: One who sees the Euphrates River near the bridge of Babylonia recites: Blessed…Author of creation. /b The Gemara adds: b And now that the Persians have rerouted /b the course of the river, one only recites the blessing b from Beit Shavor upriver. /b Downriver, it no longer flows as it did at creation, so there one does not recite the blessing: Author of creation. b Rav Yosef said: /b One only recites the blessing b from Ihi Dekira upriver. And Rami bar Abba said: One who sees the Tigris on the bridge of Shabistana recites: Blessed…Author of creation. /b ,The Gemara proceeds to explain the names of these rivers. b What is /b the source of the name b i Ḥidekel /i [ /b Tigris]? b Rav Ashi said: /b Its name is an acronym derived from the fact that b its waters are sharp [ i ḥadin /i ] and light [ i kalin /i ] /b and therefore good for drinking. b What is /b the source of the name b i Perat /i /b [Euphrates]? It is so named b because its waters are fruitful [ i parin /i ] and multiply [ i ravin /i ]; /b there are many fish in it.,As for the Tigris River, b Rava said: The inhabitants /b of the city b Meḥoza are sharp because they drink the water of the Tigris; they are red because they engage in /b conjugal b relations in the daytime; and their eyes move /b constantly b because they live in dark houses. /b ,We learned in our mishna that b over rain /b one recites the blessing: Blessed…Who is good and does good. The Gemara asks: b And over rain /b does b one /b really b recite the blessing: Who is good and does good? Didn’t Rabbi Abbahu say, and some say it was taught in a i baraita /i : From when does one recite the blessing on rain? From when the groom went out to meet the bride. /b In other words, there are puddles of water on the ground. The groom, meaning the raindrops from above, cause the bride, meaning the water below, to splash.,The Gemara asks: b What blessing does one recite? Rav Yehuda said: /b The formula of the blessing is: b We thank You for each and every drop that You have made fall for us. And Rav Yoḥa concludes /b the blessing b as follows: If our mouths were as full of song as the sea…we could not sufficiently praise You O Lord our God, /b and he continues with the formula of i nishmat /i that is recited on Shabbat morning, b until: Shall bow /b before You. b Blessed are You, O Lord, /b to Whom b abundant thanksgivings /b are offered.,The Gemara asks: Does the blessing say: b Abundant thanksgivings, and not: All thanksgivings? /b Certainly all thanksgivings are due to God. b Rava said: /b Emend the formula of the blessing and b say: The God of thanksgivings. Rav Pappa said: Therefore, we will recite them both: Abundant thanksgivings, and: The God of thanksgivings. /b , b However, it is /b still b difficult, /b as apparently the blessing for rain is not: Who is good and does good, as it appears in our mishna. The Gemara responds: This is b not difficult. This, /b which we learned in our mishna, that one recites: Who is good and does good, refers to a case b where one heard /b that rain fell. b This, /b where we learned that one recites: We thank You, etc., refers to a case b where one saw /b the rain fall.,The Gemara asks: b One heard /b that the rain fell; b that is /b a case of b good tidings. And we learned /b in the mishna b that upon /b hearing b good tidings one recites: Who is good and does good. /b Therefore, there is no reason for the mishna to mention rain separately., b Rather, /b the difficulty can be otherwise resolved: b This, /b Rabbi Abbahu’s statement, b and that, /b the mishna, both refer to a case where one saw the rain fall, b and /b this is b not difficult. This, /b Rabbi Abbahu’s statement that one recites We thank You, etc., b refers to /b a case b where a little /b rain b fell, /b while b that, /b the mishna which says that one recites: Who is good and does good, refers to a case b where a lot /b of rain b fell. And if you wish, say /b instead that b this and that /b refer to cases b where a lot /b of rain b fell, and /b this is b not difficult. This, /b the mishna, b refers to /b a case b where one owns land, /b while b that, /b Rabbi Abbahu’s statement that one recites: We thank You, etc., b refers to /b a case b where one does not own land, /b so the rain does not benefit him directly.,The Gemara asks: b One who owns land recites: Who is good and does good? Didn’t we learn /b in the mishna: b One who built a new house or purchased new vessels recites: Blessed…Who has given us life…and brought us to this time. /b However, if the land belonged b to him and others /b in partnership, b he recites: Who is good and does good? /b For rain falling onto land that one owns exclusively, he recites: Who has given us life and not: Who is good and does good.,The Gemara answers: This is b not difficult. This, /b the mishna where we learned that one recites: Who is good and does good, b refers to /b a case b where one /b owns his land b in partnership /b with another; b that, /b Rabbi Abbahu’s statement that one recites: Who has given us life, b refers to /b a case b where one /b owns the land exclusively and b does not have a partnership. And /b indeed, this i halakha /i b was taught /b in a i baraita /i : b The gist of the matter is, for /b that which b is /b exclusively b his, he recites: Blessed…Who has given us life and sustained us; for /b that which b belongs to him and to another /b in partnership, b he recites: Who is good and does good. /b ,The Gemara challenges this principle: b And in every case where others are not with him, one does not recite: Who is good and does good? Wasn’t it taught /b in a i baraita /i : b If they told him that his wife gave birth to a male, he recites: Who is good and does good? /b The Gemara responds: b There too, his wife is with him, as she is also happy that a male /b child was born.,The Gemara challenges further: b Come and hear /b a contradiction from what was taught in a i baraita /i : One whose b father died and he is his heir, initially recites: Blessed…the true Judge, /b upon hearing of his father’s death, b and ultimately, /b upon receiving his inheritance, b he recites: Blessed…Who is good and does good. /b Despite the fact that the son alone benefits, he nevertheless recites: Who is good and does good. The Gemara responds: b There, too, /b it refers to a case b where he has brothers who inherit along with him. /b ,The Gemara cites an additional challenge: b Come and hear /b a contradiction based on what was taught in a i baraita /i : In the case of b a change in /b the type of b wine /b during a meal, b one need not recite the blessing: /b Who creates fruit of the vine, a second time. However, in the case of b a change in place, one must recite a /b second b blessing /b over the wine. b And Rabbi Yosef bar Abba said /b that b Rabbi Yoḥa said: Although /b the Sages b said that /b in the case of b a change in /b the type of b wine one need not recite a /b second b blessing /b over the wine, b he does recite: Blessed…Who is good and does good. /b The Gemara responds: b There, too, /b it refers to a case where he is not alone, but where b members of the group are drinking with him. /b ,We learned in the mishna: One who b built a new house or purchased new vessels /b recites: Blessed…Who has given us life, sustained us and brought us to this time. With regard to this blessing, b Rav Huna said: They only taught /b that one recites: Who has given us life, upon purchasing a new vessel when b he does not /b already b have something similar, /b i.e., something he inherited. b However, if he /b already b has something similar he need not recite a blessing, /b as it is not new to him. b Rabbi Yoḥa said: Even /b if b one /b already b has something similar /b that he inherited, b he must recite a blessing /b because he never before purchased a vessel of that kind. |
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33. Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah, None (3rd cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 196| 53a. אשה היתה בוררת חטים לאור של בית השואבה:,חסידים ואנשי מעשה כו': ת"ר יש מהן אומרים אשרי ילדותנו שלא ביישה את זקנותנו אלו חסידים ואנשי מעשה ויש מהן אומרים אשרי זקנותנו שכפרה את ילדותנו אלו בעלי תשובה אלו ואלו אומרים אשרי מי שלא חטא ומי שחטא ישוב וימחול לו,תניא אמרו עליו על הלל הזקן כשהיה שמח בשמחת בית השואבה אמר כן אם אני כאן הכל כאן ואם איני כאן מי כאן הוא היה אומר כן למקום שאני אוהב שם רגלי מוליכות אותי אם תבא אל ביתי אני אבא אל ביתך אם אתה לא תבא אל ביתי אני לא אבא אל ביתך שנאמר (שמות כ, כד) בכל המקום אשר אזכיר את שמי אבא אליך וברכתיך,אף הוא ראה גלגולת אחת שצפה על פני המים אמר לה על דאטפת אטפוך ומטיפיך יטופון אמר רבי יוחנן רגלוהי דבר איניש אינון ערבין ביה לאתר דמיתבעי תמן מובילין יתיה,הנהו תרתי כושאי דהוו קיימי קמי שלמה (מלכים א ד, ג) אליחרף ואחיה בני שישא סופרים דשלמה הוו יומא חד חזייה למלאך המות דהוה קא עציב א"ל אמאי עציבת א"ל דקא בעו מינאי הני תרתי כושאי דיתבי הכא מסרינהו לשעירים שדרינהו למחוזא דלוז כי מטו למחוזא דלוז שכיבו,למחר חזיא מלאך המות דהוה קבדח א"ל אמאי בדיחת א"ל באתר דבעו מינאי תמן שדרתינהו מיד פתח שלמה ואמר רגלוהי דבר איניש אינון ערבין ביה לאתר דמיתבעי תמן מובילין יתיה,תניא אמרו עליו על רבן שמעון בן גמליאל כשהיה שמח שמחת בית השואבה היה נוטל שמנה אבוקות של אור וזורק אחת ונוטל אחת ואין נוגעות זו בזו וכשהוא משתחוה נועץ שני גודליו בארץ ושוחה ונושק את הרצפה וזוקף ואין כל בריה יכולה לעשות כן וזו היא קידה,לוי אחוי קידה קמיה דרבי ואיטלע והא גרמא ליה והאמר רבי אלעזר לעולם אל יטיח אדם דברים כלפי מעלה שהרי אדם גדול הטיח דברים כלפי מעלה ואיטלע ומנו לוי הא והא גרמא ליה,לוי הוה מטייל קמיה דרבי בתמני סכיני שמואל קמיה שבור מלכא בתמניא מזגי חמרא אביי קמיה (דרבא) בתמניא ביעי ואמרי לה בארבעה ביעי,תניא אמר ר' יהושע בן חנניה כשהיינו שמחים שמחת בית השואבה לא ראינו שינה בעינינו כיצד שעה ראשונה תמיד של שחר משם לתפלה משם לקרבן מוסף משם לתפלת המוספין משם לבית המדרש משם לאכילה ושתיה משם לתפלת המנחה משם לתמיד של בין הערבים מכאן ואילך לשמחת בית השואבה,איני והאמר רבי יוחנן שבועה שלא אישן שלשה ימים מלקין אותו וישן לאלתר אלא הכי קאמר לא טעמנו טעם שינה דהוו מנמנמי אכתפא דהדדי:,חמש עשרה מעלות: אמר ליה רב חסדא לההוא מדרבנן דהוי קמסדר אגדתא קמיה א"ל שמיע לך הני חמש עשרה מעלות כנגד מי אמרם דוד א"ל הכי אמר רבי יוחנן בשעה שכרה דוד שיתין קפא תהומא ובעי למשטפא עלמא אמר דוד חמש עשרה מעלות והורידן אי הכי חמש עשרה מעלות יורדות מיבעי ליה,אמר ליה הואיל ואדכרתן (מלתא) הכי אתמר בשעה שכרה דוד שיתין קפא תהומא ובעא למשטפא עלמא אמר דוד מי איכא דידע אי שרי למכתב שם | 53a. It was so bright that b a woman would /b be able to b sort wheat by the light of the /b Celebration of the b Place of the Drawing /b of the Water.,§ The mishna continues: b The pious and the men of action /b would dance before the people who attended the celebration. b The Sages taught /b in the i Tosefta /i that b some of them would say /b in their song praising God: b Happy is our youth, /b as we did not sin then, b that did not embarrass our old age. These are the pious and the men of action, /b who spent all their lives engaged in Torah and mitzvot. b And some would say: Happy is our old age, that atoned for our youth /b when we sinned. b These are the penitents. /b Both b these and those say: Happy is he who did not sin; and he who sinned should repent and /b God b will absolve him. /b , b It is taught /b in the i Tosefta /i : b They said about Hillel the Elder that when he was rejoicing at the Celebration of the Place of the Drawing /b of the Water b he said this: If I am here, everyone is here; and if I am not here, who is here? /b In other words, one must consider himself as the one upon whom it is incumbent to fulfill obligations, and he must not rely on others to do so. b He would /b also b say this: To the place that I love, there my feet take me, /b and therefore, I come to the Temple. And the Holy One, Blessed be He, says: b If you come to My house, I will come to your house; if you do not come to My house, I will not come to your house, as it is stated: “In every place that I cause My name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you” /b (Exodus 20:21).,The Gemara cites another statement of Hillel the Elder. b Additionally, he saw one skull that was floating on the water /b and b he said to it: Because you drowned /b others, b they drowned you, and those that drowned you will be drowned. /b That is the way of the world; everyone is punished measure for measure. Apropos following one’s feet, b Rabbi Yoḥa said: The feet of a person are responsible for him; to the place where he is in demand, there they lead him. /b ,The Gemara relates with regard to b these two Cushites who would stand before Solomon: “Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha” /b (I Kings 4:3), and b they were scribes of Solomon. One day /b Solomon b saw that the Angel of Death was sad. He said to him: Why are you sad? He said to him: They are asking me /b to take the lives of b these two Cushites who are sitting here. /b Solomon b handed them to the demons /b in his service, b and sent them to the district of Luz, /b where the Angel of Death has no dominion. b When they arrived at the district of Luz, they died. /b , b The following day, /b Solomon b saw that the Angel of Death was happy. He said to him: Why are you happy? He replied: In the place that they asked me /b to take them, b there you sent them. /b The Angel of Death was instructed to take their lives in the district of Luz. Since they resided in Solomon’s palace and never went to Luz, he was unable to complete his mission. That saddened him. Ultimately, Solomon dispatched them to Luz, enabling the angel to accomplish his mission. That pleased him. b Immediately, Solomon began /b to speak b and said: The feet of a person are responsible for him; to the place where he is in demand, there they lead him. /b ,§ b It is taught /b in a i baraita /i : b They said about Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel that when he would rejoice at the Celebration of the Place of the Drawing /b of the Water, b he would take eight flaming torches and toss one and catch another, /b juggling them, b and, /b though all were in the air at the same time, b they would not touch each other. And when he would prostrate himself, he would insert his two thumbs into the ground, and bow, and kiss the floor /b of the courtyard b and straighten, and /b there was b not any /b other b creature /b that b could do that /b due to the extreme difficulty involved. b And this was the /b form of bowing called b i kidda /i /b performed by the High Priest.,The Gemara relates: b Levi demonstrated a i kidda /i before Rabbi /b Yehuda HaNasi and strained his thigh b and came up lame. /b The Gemara asks: b And is that what caused him /b to be lame? b But didn’t Rabbi Elazar say: One should never speak impertinently toward /b God b above; as a great person /b once b spoke impertinently toward /b God b above, /b and even though his prayers were answered, he was still punished b and came up lame. And who /b was this great person? It was b Levi. /b Apparently his condition was not caused by his bow. The Gemara answers: There is no contradiction. Both b this and that caused him /b to come up lame; because he spoke impertinently toward God, he therefore was injured when exerting himself in demonstrating i kidda /i .,Apropos the rejoicing of Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel at the Celebration of the Place of the Drawing of the Water, the Gemara recounts: b Levi would walk before Rabbi /b Yehuda HaNasi juggling b with eight knives. Shmuel /b would juggle b before King Shapur with eight glasses of wine /b without spilling. b Abaye /b would juggle b before Rabba with eight eggs. Some say /b he did so b with four eggs. /b All these were cited., b It is taught /b in a i baraita /i that b Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥaya said: When we would rejoice /b in b the Celebration of the Place of the Drawing /b of the Water, b we did not see sleep in our eyes /b the entire Festival. b How so? /b In the b first hour /b of the day, b the daily morning offering /b was sacrificed and everyone came to watch. b From there /b they proceeded b to /b engage in b prayer /b in the synagogue; b from there, to /b watch the sacrifice of b the additional offerings; from there, /b to the synagogue b to /b recite b the additional prayer. From there /b they would proceed b to the study hall /b to study Torah; b from there to the eating and drinking /b in the i sukka /i ; b from there to the afternoon prayer. From there /b they would proceed b to the daily afternoon offering /b in the Temple. b From this /b point b forward, /b they proceeded b to the Celebration of the Place of the Drawing /b of the Water.,The Gemara wonders: b Is that so? But didn’t Rabbi Yoḥa say: /b One who took b an oath that I will not sleep three days, one flogs him /b immediately for taking an oath in vain, b and he /b may b sleep immediately /b because it is impossible to stay awake for three days uninterrupted. b Rather, this is what /b Rabbi Yehoshua b is saying: We did not experience the sense of /b actual b sleep, because they would /b merely b doze on each other’s shoulders. /b In any case, they were not actually awake for the entire week.,§ The mishna continues: The musicians would stand on the b fifteen stairs /b that descend from the Israelites’ courtyard to the Women’s Courtyard, corresponding to the fifteen Songs of the Ascents in Psalms. b Rav Ḥisda said to one of the Sages who was organizing i aggada /i before him: Did you hear /b with regard to b these fifteen /b Songs of b Ascents /b in Psalms, b corresponding to what did David say them? He said to him /b that b this /b is what b Rabbi Yoḥa said: At the time that David dug the drainpipes /b in the foundation of the Temple, the waters of b the depths rose and sought to inundate the world. /b Immediately, b David recited the fifteen /b Songs of the b Ascents and caused them to subside. /b Rav Ḥisda asked: b If so, /b should they be called b fifteen /b Songs of the b Ascents? They should have been /b called Songs of the b Descents. /b ,Rav Ḥisda continued and b said to him: Since you reminded me /b of this b matter, this is /b what b was /b originally b stated: At the time that David dug the drainpipes, /b the waters of b the depths rose and sought to inundate the world. David said: Is there anyone who knows whether it is permitted to write the /b sacred b name /b |
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34. Babylonian Talmud, Makkot, None (3rd cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 196, 197| 11a. בלשון עזה דכתיב (יהושע כ, א) וידבר ה' אל יהושע לאמר דבר אל בני ישראל לאמר תנו לכם את ערי המקלט אשר דברתי אליכם וגו' מפני שהן של תורה,למימרא דכל דיבור לשון קשה אין כדכתיב (בראשית מב, ל) דבר האיש אדוני הארץ אתנו קשות והתניא (מלאכי ג, טז) נדברו אין נדברו אלא לשון נחת וכן הוא אומר (תהלים מז, ד) ידבר עמים תחתינו דבר לחוד ידבר לחוד:,(סימנ"י רבנ"ן מהמנ"י וספר"י),פליגי בה רבי יהודה ורבנן חד אומר מפני ששיהם וחד אומר מפני שהן של תורה,(יהושע כד, כו) ויכתוב יהושע את הדברים האלה בספר תורת אלהים פליגי בה ר' יהודה ור' נחמיה חד אומר שמנה פסוקים וחד אומר ערי מקלט,בשלמא למ"ד ח' פסוקים היינו דכתיב בספר תורת אלהים אלא למ"ד ערי מקלט מאי בספר תורת אלהים ה"ק ויכתוב יהושע בספרו את הדברים האלה הכתובים בספר תורת אלהים,ספר שתפרו בפשתן פליגי בה ר' יהודה ור"מ חד אומר כשר וחד אומר פסול,למ"ד פסול דכתיב (שמות יג, ט) למען תהיה תורת ה' בפיך ואיתקש כל התורה כולה לתפילין מה תפילין הלכה למשה מסיני לתופרן בגידין אף כל לתופרן בגידין ואידך כי איתקש למותר בפיך להלכותיו לא איתקש,אמר רב חזינן להו לתפילין דבי חביבי דתפירי בכיתנא ולית הלכתא כוותיה:, big strongמתני׳ /strong /big אחד משוח בשמן המשחה ואחד המרובה בבגדים ואחד שעבר ממשיחותו מחזירין את הרוצח רבי יהודה אומר אף משוח מלחמה מחזיר את הרוצח,לפיכך אימותיהן של כהנים מספקות להן מחיה וכסות כדי שלא יתפללו על בניהם שימותו:, big strongגמ׳ /strong /big מנא הני מילי אמר רב כהנא דאמר קרא (במדבר לה, כה) וישב בה עד מות הכהן הגדול וכתיב (במדבר לה, כח) כי בעיר מקלטו ישב עד מות הכהן הגדול וכתיב (במדבר לה, כח) ואחרי מות הכהן הגדול,ור' יהודה כתיב קרא אחרינא (במדבר לה, לב) לשוב לשבת בארץ עד מות הכהן (וגו') ואידך מדלא כתיב הגדול חד מהנך הוא:,לפיכך אימותיהן של כהנים וכו': טעמא דלא מצלו הא מצלו מייתי והכתיב (משלי כו, ב) כצפור לנוד כדרור לעוף כן קללת חנם לא תבא (א"ל) ההוא סבא מפירקיה דרבא שמיע לי שהיה להן לבקש רחמים על דורן ולא בקשו,ואיכא דמתני כדי שיתפללו על בניהם שלא ימותו טעמא דמצלו הא לא מצלו מייתי מאי הוה ליה למעבד הכא אמרינן טוביה חטא וזיגוד מנגיד,התם אמרי שכם נסיב ומבגאי גזיר,אמר ליה ההוא סבא מפירקיה דרבא שמיע לי שהיה להן לבקש רחמים על דורן ולא בקשו כי הא דההוא גברא דאכליה אריא ברחוק תלתא פרסי מיניה דר' יהושע בן לוי ולא אישתעי אליהו בהדיה תלתא יומי,אמר רב יהודה אמר רב קללת חכם אפי' בחנם היא באה מנלן מאחיתופל שבשעה שכרה דוד שיתין קפא תהומא בעא למישטפא לעלמא אמר מהו לכתוב שם אחספא ומישדא בתהומא דליקו אדוכתיה ליכא דאמר ליה מידי אמר כל היודע דבר זה ואינו אומרו יחנק בגרונו,נשא אחיתופל ק"ו בעצמו אמר ומה לעשות שלום בין איש לאשתו אמרה התורה שמי שנכתב בקדושה ימחה על המים לכל העולם כולו לא כל שכן א"ל שרי כתב שם אחספא שדי אתהומא נחת וקם אדוכתיה,ואפ"ה כתיב (שמואל ב יז, כג) ואחיתופל ראה כי לא נעשתה עצתו ויחבוש את החמור ויקם וילך אל ביתו (ו) אל עירו ויצו אל ביתו ויחנק וגו',א"ר אבהו קללת חכם אפילו על תנאי היא באה מנלן מעלי דקאמר ליה [עלי] לשמואל (שמואל א ג, יז) כה יעשה לך אלהים וכה יוסיף אם תכחד ממני דבר ואף על גב דכתיב (שמואל א ג, יח) ויגד לו שמואל את כל הדברים ולא כחד ממנו [ואפ"ה] כתיב (שמואל א ח, ג) ולא הלכו בניו בדרכיו וגו' | 11a. b with harsh language, as it is written: “And the Lord spoke [ i vayedabber /i ] to Joshua saying: Speak [ i dabber /i ] to the children of Israel, saying: Assign you the cities of refuge of which I spoke [ i dibbarti /i ] to you /b by means of Moses” (Joshua 20:1–2). Why does the Torah repeatedly employ a term of i dibbur /i , connoting harsh speech, as opposed to the term of i amira /i , connoting neutral speech? It is b due to /b the fact b that /b the cities of refuge b are /b a mitzva b of the Torah, /b and therefore they warrant emphasis.,The Gemara asks: b Is that to say that all /b instances of b speaking [ i dibbur /i ] /b indicate b harsh language? /b The Gemara answers: b Yes, as it is written /b with regard to Joseph’s brothers: b “The man, the lord of the land, spoke [ i dibber /i ] harshly to us” /b (Genesis 42:30). The Gemara asks: b But isn’t it taught /b in a i baraita /i with regard to the verse: “Then b they /b who feared the Lord b spoke [ i nidberu /i ] /b with one another” (Malachi 3:16), that the term b “they spoke” is nothing other than a term of gentleness, and likewise, /b the same is true of the verse which b states: “He subdues [ i yadber /i ] peoples under us” /b (Psalms 47:4), meaning that God will calmly and gently conduct the nations under the influence of the Jewish people? The Gemara answers: The meaning of b i dibber /i is discrete /b and the meaning of b i yadber /i is discrete. /b There is a difference between the two conjugations of the same root.,The Gemara provides b a mnemonic /b for the disputes involving Rabbi Yehuda that follow: b Rabbis; i mehemni /i , /b i.e., the dispute with Rabbi Neḥemya; b and /b the dispute with regard to Torah b scrolls /b sewn with threads of flax.,The Gemara resumes the discussion of the harsh language employed in the portion discussing murderers in the book of Joshua. b Rabbi Yehuda and the Rabbis disagree with regard to this /b matter. b One says /b harsh language was employed b because /b Joshua b delayed /b fulfilling the mitzva of designating cities of refuge, b and one says /b it is b because /b the cities of refuge b are /b a mitzva b of the Torah, /b and therefore they warrant emphasis.,The Gemara cites an additional dispute with regard to the portion of the cities of refuge in the book of Joshua. It is written: b “And Joshua wrote these matters in the scroll of the Torah of God” /b (Joshua 24:26). b Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Neḥemya disagree with regard to this /b matter. b One says: /b The reference is to the final b eight verses /b in the Torah that record the death of Moses and were recorded by Joshua in the scroll of the Torah, in addition to the rest of the Torah that was written by Moses (see i Bava Batra /i 15a). b And one says: /b The reference is to the portion of the b cities of refuge /b that appears in the book of Joshua.,The Gemara discusses these two opinions: b Granted, according to the one who says that /b the reference is to the final b eight verses /b in the Torah, b that is /b the reason b that it is written: /b “And Joshua wrote these matters b in the scroll of the Torah of God,” /b as he wrote those verses and they were included in the Torah. b But according to the one who says /b that the reference is to the portion of the b cities of refuge /b in the book of Joshua, b what /b is the meaning of the phrase b “in the scroll of the Torah of God”? /b They appear in the book of Joshua, not in the Torah. The Gemara answers: b This /b is what the verse b is saying: And Joshua wrote in his book these matters that are /b also b written in the scroll of the Torah of God. /b ,The Gemara proceeds to cite another dispute between Rabbi Yehuda and one of the Sages in which it is not clear which opinion is attributable to which Sage. In the case of a Torah b scroll where one sewed its /b sheets b with linen /b threads, b Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Meir disagree with regard to this /b matter. b One says: /b The Torah scroll is b fit /b for use, b and one says: /b The Torah scroll is b unfit /b for use.,The Gemara elaborates: b According to the one who says /b that the Torah scroll is b unfit /b for use, the reason is b as it is written /b with regard to phylacteries: “And it shall be for you a sign on your hand and a memorial between your eyes, b in order that the Torah of God shall be in your mouth” /b (Exodus 13:9). b And /b in this verse b the entire Torah is juxtaposed /b and likened b to phylacteries: Just as /b with regard to b phylacteries, /b there is b a i halakha /i /b transmitted b to Moses from Sinai to sew them with sinews, so too, /b with regard to b all /b sheets of the Torah scroll, there is a requirement b to sew them with sinews. And the other /b Sage holds: b When /b the Torah scroll b is juxtaposed /b and likened to phylacteries, it is only b with regard to /b the principle that the sheets of the Torah scroll may be prepared only from a species of animal b that is permitted to your mouth, /b i.e., that it is permitted for a Jew to eat; but with regard b to its /b other b i halakhot /i , it is not juxtaposed /b and likened to phylacteries., b Rav said: I saw that the phylacteries of the house of my uncle, /b Rabbi Ḥiyya, b were sewn with linen. But the i halakha /i is not in accordance with his /b opinion; phylacteries may be sewn only with sinews., strong MISHNA: /strong The Torah states that an unintentional murderer is required to remain in the city of refuge to which he fled until the death of the High Priest. The mishna elaborates: With regard to High Priests, who were appointed in several different manners, b one anointed with the anointing oil, /b which was the method through which High Priests were consecrated until the oil was sequestered toward the end of the First Temple period; b and one /b consecrated by donning b multiple garments, /b the eight vestments unique to the High Priest, which was the practice during the Second Temple period; b and one /b who received a temporary appointment due to the unfitness of the serving High Priest, b who departed from his anointment /b with the restoration of the serving High Priest to active service, their deaths b facilitate /b the b return of the murderer /b from the city of refuge to his home. b Rabbi Yehuda says: Even /b the death of a priest b anointed for war /b to address the soldiers (see Deuteronomy 20:1–7) b facilitates /b the b return of the murderer. /b ,The mishna continues: b Therefore, the mothers of /b High b Priests /b would b provide /b those exiled to cities of refuge with b sustece and garments so that they would not pray that their sons would die. /b The more comfortable their lives in the city of refuge, the less urgency they would feel to leave, and the less likely it would be that they would pray for the death of the High Priests., strong GEMARA: /strong The Gemara asks: b From where are these matters, /b that the death of these High Priests facilitates the return of the murderer, derived? b Rav Kahana said /b they are derived from a verse, b as the verse states: “And he shall dwell there until the death of the High Priest /b who was anointed with the sacred oil” (Numbers 35:25), b and it is written: “For in his city of refuge he shall dwell until the death of the High Priest” /b (Numbers 35:28), b and it is written: “And after the death of the High Priest /b the murderer shall return to his ancestral land” (Numbers 35:28). The three mentions of the death of the High Priest correspond to the three types of High Priest enumerated by the first i tanna /i of the mishna: One anointed with oil, one consecrated by donning the eight vestments, and one who was relieved of his position., b And Rabbi Yehuda /b holds that b another verse is written: /b “And you shall take no ransom for him that fled to his city of refuge, b to return and dwell in the land until the death of the priest” /b (Numbers 35:32), from which it is derived that the death of the priest anointed for war also facilitates the return of the murderer. b And the other /b i tanna /i says: b From /b the fact b that High /b Priest b is not written /b in that verse, it is clear that the reference is not to an additional type of High Priest; rather, the reference b is /b to b one of those /b High Priests mentioned in the preceding verses.,§ The mishna teaches: b Therefore, the mothers of /b High b Priests /b would provide those exiled to cities of refuge with sustece and garments so that they would not pray that their sons will die. The Gemara asks: b The reason /b that the High Priest will not die b is that they do not pray; but if they prayed /b for the death of the High Priest, would he b die? But isn’t it written: “As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so a curse that is baseless shall come home” /b (Proverbs 26:2)? Why does the mishna express concern over a baseless curse? b A certain elder said to him: I heard in the lecture /b delivered b by Rava /b that it is not a baseless curse, as the High Priests share the blame for the unintentional murders performed by these people, b as they should have pleaded for mercy for their generation, /b that no murder should transpire, even unintentionally, b and they did not plead. /b Due to their share in the blame, prayers for their death could be effective., b And some teach /b a variant reading of the mishna: Therefore, the mothers of High Priests would provide those exiled to cities of refuge with sustece and garments, b so that /b those exiled b would pray that their sons will not die. /b The Gemara infers: b The reason /b that the High Priests will not die b is that they pray, but if they did not pray /b for the High Priest not to die, would the High Priest b die? What could /b the High Priest b have done /b to prevent the unintentional murder? b Here, /b in Babylonia, b we say /b an adage to describe a situation of that sort: b Toviyya sinned and Zigud is flogged. /b Toviyya violated a prohibition and Zigud came as a single witness to testify against him. Since the testimony of a single witness is not valid in court, he is flogged for defaming Toviyya. The sinner is unpunished and the person who sought to testify against him is flogged. This became a colloquialism for a situation where one is punished for the sin of another., b There, /b in Eretz Yisrael, b they say /b a different adage with the same application: b Shechem married /b a woman b and Mavgai circumcised /b himself. This is based on the episode of the abduction of Dinah in the city of Shechem (see Genesis, chapter 34), where Shechem compelled all the male residents of the city to undergo circumcision so that he could marry Dinah. Shechem married Dinah, while the rest of the males suffered the pain of circumcision and received no benefit., b A certain elder said to him: I heard in the lecture /b delivered b by Rava /b that the High Priests share the blame, b as they should have pleaded for mercy for their generation and they did not plead. /b Consequently, they required the exiles to pray on their own behalf. The Gemara illustrates the concept of the responsibility held by the spiritual leadership: This is b like /b in b this /b incident b where a certain man was eaten by a lion at a distance of three parasangs from /b the place of residence of b Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, and Elijah /b the prophet b did not speak with him /b for b three days /b because of his failure to pray that an incident of this kind would not transpire in his place of residence.,Apropos curses that are realized, b Rav Yehuda says /b that b Rav says: /b With regard to b the curse of a Sage, even /b if it is b baseless, /b i.e., based on a mistaken premise, b it /b nevertheless b comes /b to fruition and affects the object of the curse. b From where do we /b derive this? It is derived b from /b this incident involving b Ahithophel. When David dug the drainpipes /b in preparation for building the Temple, the waters of b the depths rose /b and b sought to inundate the world. /b David b said: What is /b the i halakha /i ? Is it permitted b to write /b the sacred b name on an earthenware shard and throw /b it b into the depths, /b so b that /b the water will subside and b stand in its place? There was no one who said anything to him. /b David b said: Anyone who knows /b the answer to b this matter and does not say it shall be strangled. /b ,Then b Ahithophel raised an i a fortiori /i /b inference b on his own /b and b said: And if /b in order b to make peace between a man and his wife /b in the case of a i sota /i , when the husband suspects his wife of having committed adultery, b the Torah says: My name that was written in sanctity shall be erased on the water, /b then, in order b to establish peace for the whole world in its entirety, is it not all the more so /b permitted? Ahithophel b said to /b David: b It is permitted. /b David b wrote /b the sacred b name on an earthenware shard /b and b cast it into the depths, /b and the water in the depths b subsided and stood in its place. /b , b And even so it is written /b that during the rebellion of Absalom: b “And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not taken, and he saddled his donkey and he arose and went to his house, to his town, and he commanded his household and strangled himself” /b (II Samuel 17:23). Although David stipulated that his curse would take effect only if one who knows the answer fails to share it with him, and Ahithophel did not fail to share it with him, the curse was realized.,The Gemara cites a similar statement: b Rabbi Abbahu says: /b With regard to b the curse of a Sage, even /b if it is stated b conditionally, it comes /b to realization. b From where do we /b derive this? It is derived b from /b an incident involving b Eli /b the High Priest, b as Eli said to Samuel, /b after the latter had received a prophetic vision with regard to Eli, that his sons do not follow his path: b “Therefore may God do to you, and more also, if you hide any matter from me /b of all the matters that He spoke unto you” (I Samuel 3:17). b And even though it is written /b immediately thereafter: b “And Samuel told him all the matters, and did not hide from him” /b (I Samuel 3:18), b it is written /b at the time of Samuel’s death: b “And his sons did not follow in his ways” /b (I Samuel 8:3), indicating that God did to Samuel as he prophesied with regard to Eli, and his own sons did not follow his path. Despite the fact that Eli stated the curse conditionally, Samuel was affected by the curse. |
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35. Babylonian Talmud, Megillah, None (3rd cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 196| 12b. בבוציני,ביום השביעי כטוב לב המלך ביין אטו עד השתא לא טב לביה בחמרא אמר רבא יום השביעי שבת היה שישראל אוכלין ושותין מתחילין בד"ת ובדברי תשבחות אבל עובדי כוכבים שאוכלין ושותין אין מתחילין אלא בדברי תיפלות,וכן בסעודתו של אותו רשע הללו אומרים מדיות נאות והללו אומרים פרסיות נאות אמר להם אחשורוש כלי שאני משתמש בו אינו לא מדיי ולא פרסי אלא כשדיי רצונכם לראותה אמרו לו אין ובלבד שתהא ערומה,שבמדה שאדם מודד בה מודדין לו מלמד שהיתה ושתי הרשעה מביאה בנות ישראל ומפשיטן ערומות ועושה בהן מלאכה בשבת היינו דכתיב אחר הדברים האלה כשוך חמת המלך אחשורוש זכר את ושתי ואת אשר עשתה ואת אשר נגזר עליה כשם שעשתה כך נגזר עליה,ותמאן המלכה ושתי מכדי פריצתא הואי דאמר מר שניהן לדבר עבירה נתכוונו מ"ט לא אתאי א"ר יוסי בר חנינא מלמד שפרחה בה צרעת במתניתא תנא [בא גבריאל ועשה לה זנב],ויקצף המלך מאד אמאי דלקה ביה כולי האי אמר רבא שלחה ליה בר אהורייריה דאבא אבא לקבל אלפא חמרא שתי ולא רוי וההוא גברא אשתטי בחמריה מיד וחמתו בערה בו,ויאמר המלך לחכמים מאן חכמים רבנן יודעי העתים שיודעין לעבר שנים ולקבוע חדשים אמר להו דיינוה לי אמרו היכי נעביד נימא ליה קטלה למחר פסיק ליה חמריה ובעי לה מינן נימא ליה שבקה קא מזלזלה במלכותא אמרו לו מיום שחרב בית המקדש וגלינו מארצנו ניטלה עצה ממנו ואין אנו יודעין לדון דיני נפשות זיל לגבי עמון ומואב דיתבי בדוכתייהו כחמרא דיתיב על דורדייה,וטעמא אמרו ליה דכתיב (ירמיהו מח, יא) שאנן מואב מנעוריו ושוקט הוא אל שמריו ולא הורק מכלי אל כלי ובגולה לא הלך על כן עמד טעמו בו וריחו לא נמר מיד והקרוב אליו כרשנא שתר אדמתא תרשיש,א"ר לוי כל פסוק זה על שום קרבנות נאמר,כרשנא אמרו מלאכי השרת לפני הקב"ה רבש"ע כלום הקריבו לפניך כרים בני שנה כדרך שהקריבו ישראל לפניך שתר כלום הקריבו לפניך שתי תורין אדמתא כלום בנו לפניך מזבח אדמה תרשיש כלום שימשו לפניך בבגדי כהונה דכתיב בהו (שמות כח, כ) תרשיש ושהם וישפה מרס כלום מירסו בדם לפניך מרסנא כלום מירסו במנחות לפניך ממוכן כלום הכינו שלחן לפניך,ויאמר ממוכן תנא ממוכן זה המן ולמה נקרא שמו ממוכן שמוכן לפורענות אמר רב כהנא מכאן שההדיוט קופץ בראש,להיות כל איש שורר בביתו אמר רבא אלמלא אגרות הראשונות לא נשתייר משונאיהן של ישראל שריד ופליט,אמרי מאי האי דשדיר לן להיות כל איש שורר בביתו פשיטא אפילו קרחה בביתיה פרדשכא ליהוי,ויפקד המלך פקידים א"ר מאי דכתיב (משלי יג, טז) כל ערום יעשה בדעת וכסיל יפרוש אולת,כל ערום יעשה בדעת זה דוד דכתיב (מלכים א א, ב) ויאמרו לו עבדיו יבקשו לאדני המלך נערה בתולה כל מאן דהוה ליה ברתא אייתה ניהליה וכסיל יפרוש אולת זה אחשורוש דכתיב ויפקד המלך פקידים כל מאן דהוה ליה ברתא איטמרה מיניה,איש יהודי היה בשושן הבירה וגו' איש ימיני מאי קאמר אי ליחוסא קאתי ליחסיה ואזיל עד בנימין אלא מאי שנא הני,תנא כולן על שמו נקראו בן יאיר בן שהאיר עיניהם של ישראל בתפלתו בן שמעי בן ששמע אל תפלתו בן קיש שהקיש על שערי רחמים ונפתחו לו,קרי ליה יהודי אלמא מיהודה קאתי וקרי ליה ימיני אלמא מבנימין קאתי אמר רב נחמן מרדכי מוכתר בנימוסו היה,אמר רבה בר בר חנה אמר ר' יהושע בן לוי אביו מבנימין ואמו מיהודה ורבנן אמרי משפחות מתגרות זו בזו משפחת יהודה אומרת אנא גרים דמתיליד מרדכי דלא קטליה דוד לשמעי בן גרא ומשפחת בנימין אמרה מינאי קאתי,רבא אמר כנסת ישראל אמרה לאידך גיסא ראו מה עשה לי יהודי ומה שילם לי ימיני מה עשה לי יהודי | 12b. b with zucchinis, /b indicating that often a man and his wife engage in similar actions.,The verse states: b “On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine” /b (Esther 1:10). The Gemara asks: b Is that to say /b that b until now his heart was not merry with wine? /b Did it take seven days for him to achieve merriment? b Rava said: The seventh day was Shabbat, /b when the difference between the Jewish people and the gentiles is most apparent. On Shabbat, b when the Jewish people eat and drink, they begin /b by occupying themselves b with words of Torah and words of praise /b for God. b But the nations of the world, when they eat and drink, they begin only with words of licentiousness. /b ,The Gemara continues to detail what occurred at the feast. b So too, at the feast of that wicked man, /b Ahasuerus, when the men began to converse, b some said: The Median women are /b the most b beautiful, while others said: The Persian women are /b the most b beautiful. Ahasuerus said to them: The vessel that I use, /b i.e., my wife, b is neither Median nor Persian, but /b rather b Chaldean. Do you wish to see her? They said to him: Yes, provided that she be naked, /b for we wish to see her without any additional adornments.,The Gemara comments: Vashti was punished in this humiliating way b for it is with the measure that a man measures /b to others b that he /b himself b is measured. /b In other words, God punishes individuals in line with their transgressions, measure for measure. b This teaches that the wicked Vashti would take the daughters of Israel, and strip them naked, and make them work on Shabbat. /b Therefore, it was decreed that she be brought before the king naked, on Shabbat. This is b as it is written: “After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her” /b (Esther 2:1). That is to say, b just as she had done /b with the young Jewish women, b so it was decreed upon her. /b ,The verse states: b “But the queen Vashti refused /b to come” (Esther 1:12). The Gemara asks: b Since she was immodest, as the Master said /b above: b The two of them had sinful intentions, what is the reason /b that b she did not come? Rabbi Yosei bar Ḥanina said: This teaches that she broke out in leprosy, /b and therefore she was embarrassed to expose herself publicly. An alternative reason for her embarrassment b was taught in a i baraita /i : /b The angel b Gabriel came and fashioned her a tail. /b ,The verse continues: b “Therefore the king was very wrathful, /b and his anger burned in him” (Esther 1:12). The Gemara asks: b Why did /b his anger b burn in him so greatly /b merely because she did not wish to come? b Rava said: /b Vashti not only refused to come, but she also b sent him /b a message by way of a messenger: You, b son of my father’s stableman [ i ahuriyyarei /i ]. /b Belshazzar, b my father, drank wine against a thousand /b men b and did not become inebriated, /b as the verse in Daniel (5:1) testifies about him: “Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand”; b and that man, /b referring euphemistically to Ahasuerus himself, b has become senseless from his wine. /b Due to her audacity, b immediately “his anger burned in him” /b (Esther 1:12).,The following verse states: b “Then the king said to the wise men, /b who knew the times” (Esther 1:13). The Gemara asks: b Who are these wise men? /b These wise men are b the Sages /b of the Jewish people, who are referred to as those b “who knew the times,” for they know how to intercalate years and fix the months /b of the Jewish calendar. Ahasuerus b said to them: Judge her for me. /b The Sages b said /b in their hearts: b What should we do? /b If b we say to him: Kill her, tomorrow he will become sober and /b then come and b demand her from us. /b If b we say to him: Let her be, she has scorned royalty, /b and that cannot be tolerated. Consequently, they decided not to judge the matter, and b they said to him /b as follows: b From the day that the Temple was destroyed and we have been exiled from our land, counsel /b and insight b have been removed from us, and we do not know how to judge capital cases, /b as they are exceptionally difficult. b Go to /b the people of b Ammon and Moab, who have remained /b permanently b settled in their places like wine that is settled on its lees, /b and so their minds are settled as well., b And /b they provided a good b reason /b when b they spoke to him, /b as they proved that one who is settled retains his reasoning: b For it is written: “Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into exile; therefore his taste has remained in him, and his scent is not changed” /b (Jeremiah 48:11). Ahasuerus b immediately /b acted on their advice and asked his advisors, as it is written: b “And next to him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, /b Meres, Marsena, and Memucan” (Esther 1:14)., b Rabbi Levi said: This entire verse /b listing the names of the king’s advisors b is stated on account of offerings. /b Each name alludes to an aspect of the sacrificial service that was unique to the Jewish people, which the ministering angels mentioned as merit for the Jewish people., b “Carshena”; the ministering angels said before the Holy One, Blessed be He: Master of the Universe, did /b the gentiles b ever offer before You lambs [ i karim /i ] of the first year [ i shana /i ], as the Jewish people have offered before You? “Shethar”; have they ever offered before You two turtledoves [ i shetei torim /i ]? “Admatha”; have they ever built before You an altar of earth [ i adama /i ]? “Tarshish”; have they ever ministered before You in the priestly vestments, as it is written /b that on the fourth of the four rows of precious stones contained on the breastplate were: b “A beryl [ i tarshish /i ], an onyx, and a jasper” /b (Exodus 28:20). b “Meres”; have they ever stirred [ i meirsu /i ] the blood of the offerings before You? “Marsena”; have they ever stirred [ i meirsu /i ] the meal-offering before You? “Memucan”; have they ever prepared [ i hekhinu /i ] /b the b table before You, /b on which the shewbread was placed?,The verse states: b “And Memucan said” /b (Esther 1:16). A Sage b taught /b in a i baraita /i : b Memucan is Haman. And why is /b Haman b referred to as Memucan? Because he was prepared [ i mukhan /i ] to /b bring b calamity /b upon the Jewish people. b Rav Kahana said: From here /b we see b that the common man jumps to the front /b and speaks first, for Memucan was mentioned last of the king’s seven advisors, and nevertheless he expressed his opinion first.,The king sent out letters to the people of all his provinces, in which it was written: b “That every man shall wield authority in his own house /b and speak according to the language of his people” (Esther 1:22). b Rava said: Were it not for the first letters /b sent by Ahasuerus, which everybody discounted, b there would not have been left among the enemies of the Jewish people, /b a euphemism for the Jewish people themselves, b a remt or a refugee. /b Since these first letters were the subject of ridicule, people didn’t take the king seriously and did not immediately act upon the directive of the later letters, calling for the Jewish people’s destruction.,The Gemara continues. The reason that the first letters were not taken seriously is that b they /b who received them would b say: What is this that he has sent us: “That every man shall wield authority in his own house”? /b This is b obvious; even /b a lowly b weaver is commander [ i paredashekha /i ] in his house. /b If so, why then did the king find it necessary to make such a proclamation?,The verse describes Ahasuerus’s search for a new wife by stating: b “And let the king appoint officers /b in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the castle” (Esther 2:3). b Rabbi /b Yehuda HaNasi b said: What is /b the meaning of b that which is written: “In everything a prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool unfolds his folly” /b (Proverbs 13:16)? The verse highlights the difference between two kings’ approaches to finding a wife., b “In everything a prudent man acts with knowledge”; this /b statement is referring to b David, /b who also sought a wife for himself, b as it is written: “And his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin” /b (I Kings 1:2). Since he sought one maiden, b whoever had a daughter brought her to him, /b for everyone wanted his daughter to be the king’s wife. With regard to the continuation of the verse: b “But a fool unfolds his folly” /b (Proverbs 13:16), b this /b statement b is /b referring to b Ahasuerus, as it is written: “And let the king appoint officers” /b to seek out many maidens. Since it became clear that the king would have relations with all of them, but in the end he would choose only one as his bride, b whoever had a daughter hid her from him. /b ,The verse that initially describes Mordecai states: b “There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, /b whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a b Benjamite” /b (Esther 2:5). The Gemara asks: b What is it /b conveying in the verse by b saying /b the names of Mordecai’s ancestors? b If /b the verse in fact b comes to /b trace his b ancestry, it should continue tracing /b his lineage b back /b all the way b to Benjamin, /b the founder of his tribe. b Rather, what is different /b about these names that they deserve special mention?,The Gemara answers: A Sage b taught /b the following i baraita /i : b All of them are names by which /b Mordecai b was called. /b He was called b “the son of Jair” /b because he was b the son who enlightened [ i heir /i ] the eyes of /b all of b the Jewish people with his prayers; “the son of Shimei” /b because he was b the son whom God heard [ i shama /i ] his prayers; “the son of Kish” because he knocked [ i hikish /i ] on the gates of mercy and they were opened to him. /b ,The Gemara points out a contradiction: Mordecai b is referred to as a “Jew [ i Yehudi /i ],” apparently /b indicating that b he came from /b the tribe of b Judah, /b but in the continuation of the verse b he is called “Benjamite” [ i Yemini /i ], which indicates that he came from /b the tribe of b Benjamin. Rav Naḥman said: Mordecai was crowned with /b honorary b names. /b i Yehudi /i is one such honorary epithet, due to its allusion to the royal tribe of Judah, but it is not referring to Mordecai’s tribal affiliation., b Rabba bar bar Ḥana said /b that b Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said /b an alternative explanation: Mordecai’s b father was from /b the tribe of b Benjamin, and his mother was from /b the tribe of b Judah. /b Therefore, he was both a i Yemini /i , a Benjamite, and a i Yehudi /i , from the tribe of Judah. b And the Rabbis say /b that the dual lineage is due to a dispute: b The families competed /b with b each other /b over which tribe could take credit for Mordecai. b The family of Judah /b would b say: I caused the birth of Mordecai, /b as only b because David did not kill Shimei, the son of Gera, /b when he cursed him (see II Samuel 16) was it possible for Mordecai to be born later from his descendants. b And the family of Benjamin said /b in response: In the end b he came from me, /b as he in fact was from Benjamin’s tribe., b Rava said: The Congregation of Israel /b at the time b said /b this b from the opposite perspective, /b not as a boast, but as a complaint, remarking: b See what a Judean has done to me and how a Benjamite has repaid me. 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36. Babylonian Talmud, Bava Qamma, None (3rd cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 197| 60b. לעולם יכנס אדם בכי טוב ויצא בכי טוב שנאמר (שמות יב, כב) ואתם לא תצאו איש מפתח ביתו עד בקר,ת"ר דבר בעיר כנס רגליך שנאמר ואתם לא תצאו איש מפתח ביתו עד בקר ואומר (ישעיהו כו, כ) לך עמי בא בחדריך וסגור דלתיך בעדך ואומר (דברים לב, כה) מחוץ תשכל חרב ומחדרים אימה,מאי ואומר וכי תימא ה"מ בליליא אבל ביממא לא תא שמע לך עמי בא בחדריך וסגור דלתיך,וכי תימא ה"מ [היכא] דליכא אימה מגואי אבל היכא דאיכא אימה מגואי כי נפיק יתיב ביני אינשי בצוותא בעלמא טפי מעלי ת"ש מחוץ תשכל חרב ומחדרים אימה אע"ג דמחדרים אימה מחוץ תשכל חרב,רבא בעידן רתחא הוי סכר כוי דכתי' (ירמיהו ט, כ) כי עלה מות בחלונינו,ת"ר רעב בעיר פזר רגליך שנא' (בראשית יב, י) ויהי רעב בארץ וירד אברם מצרימה [לגור] (ויגר) שם ואומר (מלכים ב ז, ד) אם אמרנו נבא העיר והרעב בעיר ומתנו שם,מאי ואומר וכי תימא ה"מ היכא דליכא ספק נפשות אבל היכא דאיכא ספק נפשות לא ת"ש (מלכים ב ז, ד) לכו ונפלה אל מחנה ארם אם יחיונו נחיה,ת"ר דבר בעיר אל יהלך אדם באמצע הדרך מפני שמלאך המות מהלך באמצע הדרכים דכיון דיהיבא ליה רשותא מסגי להדיא שלום בעיר אל יהלך בצדי דרכים דכיון דלית ליה רשותא מחבי חבויי ומסגי,ת"ר דבר בעיר אל יכנס אדם יחיד לבית הכנסת שמלאך המות מפקיד שם כליו וה"מ היכא דלא קרו ביה דרדקי ולא מצלו ביה עשרה,ת"ר כלבים בוכים מלאך המות בא לעיר כלבים משחקים אליהו הנביא בא לעיר וה"מ דלית בהו נקבה:,יתיב רב אמי ורב אסי קמיה דר' יצחק נפחא מר א"ל לימא מר שמעתתא ומר א"ל לימא מר אגדתא פתח למימר אגדתא ולא שביק מר פתח למימר שמעתתא ולא שביק מר,אמר להם אמשול לכם משל למה הדבר דומה לאדם שיש לו שתי נשים אחת ילדה ואחת זקינה ילדה מלקטת לו לבנות זקינה מלקטת לו שחורות נמצא קרח מכאן ומכאן,אמר להן אי הכי אימא לכו מלתא דשויא לתרוייכו (שמות כב, ה) כי תצא אש ומצאה קוצים תצא מעצמה שלם ישלם המבעיר את הבערה אמר הקב"ה עלי לשלם את הבערה שהבערתי,אני הציתי אש בציון שנאמר (איכה ד, יא) ויצת אש בציון ותאכל יסודותיה ואני עתיד לבנותה באש שנאמר (זכריה ב, ט) ואני אהיה לה חומת אש סביב ולכבוד אהיה בתוכה,שמעתתא פתח הכתוב בנזקי ממונו וסיים בנזקי גופו לומר לך אשו משום חציו:,(שמואל ב כג, טו) ויתאוה דוד ויאמר מי ישקני מים מבור בית לחם אשר בשער ויבקעו שלשת הגבורים במחנה פלשתים וישאבו מים מבור בית לחם אשר בשער [וגו'],מאי קא מיבעיא ליה אמר רבא אמר ר"נ טמון באש קמיבעיא ליה אי כר' יהודה אי כרבנן ופשטו ליה מאי דפשטו ליה,רב הונא אמר גדישים דשעורים דישראל הוו דהוו מטמרי פלשתים בהו וקא מיבעיא ליה מהו להציל עצמו בממון חבירו,שלחו ליה אסור להציל עצמו בממון חבירו אבל אתה מלך אתה [ומלך] פורץ לעשות לו דרך ואין מוחין בידו,ורבנן ואיתימא רבה בר מרי אמרו גדישים דשעורין דישראל הוו וגדישין דעדשים דפלשתים וקא מיבעיא להו מהו ליטול גדישין של שעורין דישראל ליתן לפני בהמתו על מנת לשלם גדישין של עדשים דפלשתים,שלחו ליה (יחזקאל לג, טו) חבול ישיב רשע גזילה ישלם אע"פ שגזילה משלם רשע הוא אבל אתה מלך אתה ומלך פורץ לעשות לו דרך ואין מוחין בידו,בשלמא למאן דאמר לאחלופי היינו דכתיב חד קרא (שמואל ב כג, יא) ותהי שם חלקת השדה מלאה עדשים וכתיב חד קרא (דברי הימים א יא, יג) ותהי חלקת השדה מלאה שעורים,אלא למאן דאמר למקלי מאי איבעיא להו להני תרי קראי אמר לך דהוו נמי גדישים דעדשים דישראל דהוו מיטמרו בהו פלשתים,בשלמא למאן דאמר למקלי היינו דכתיב (שמואל ב כג, יב) ויתיצב בתוך החלקה ויצילה אלא למ"ד לאחלופי מאי ויצילה,דלא שבק להו לאחלופי,בשלמא הני תרתי היינו דכתיב תרי קראי | 60b. b A person /b should b always enter /b an unfamiliar city b at /b a time of b good, /b i.e., while it is light, as the Torah uses the expression “It is good” with regard to the creation of light (see Genesis 1:4). This goodness is manifest in the sense of security one feels when it is light. b And /b likewise, when one leaves a city b he /b should b leave at /b a time of b good, /b meaning after sunrise the next morning, b as it is stated /b in the verse: b “And none of you shall go out of the opening of his house until the morning” /b (Exodus 12:22).,§ b The Sages taught: /b If there is b plague in the city, gather your feet, /b i.e., limit the time you spend out of the house, b as it is stated /b in the verse: b “And none of you shall go out of the opening of his house until the morning.” And it says /b in another verse: b “Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; /b hide yourself for a little moment, until the anger has passed by” (Isaiah 26:20). b And it says: “Outside the sword will bereave, and in the chambers terror” /b (Deuteronomy 32:25).,The Gemara asks: b What /b is the reason for citing the additional verses introduced with the term: b And it says? /b The first verse seems sufficient to teach the principle that one should not emerge from one’s house when there is a plague. The Gemara answers: b And if you would say /b that b this matter, /b the first verse that states that none of you shall go out until morning, applies only b at night, but in the day /b one may think that the principle does b not /b apply, for this reason the Gemara teaches: b Come /b and b hear: “Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your doors behind you.” /b , b And if you would say /b that b this matter /b applies only b where there is no fear inside, /b which explains why it is preferable to remain indoors, b but where there is fear inside, /b one might think that b when he goes out /b and b sits among people in general company /b it is b better, /b therefore, the Gemara introduces the third verse and says: b Come /b and b hear: “Outside the sword will bereave, and in the chambers terror.” /b This means that b although there is terror in the chambers, outside the sword will bereave, /b so it is safer to remain indoors., b At a time /b when there was a b plague, Rava would close the windows /b of his house, b as it is written: “For death is come up into our windows” /b (Jeremiah 9:20)., b The Sages taught: /b If there is b famine in the city, spread your feet, /b i.e., leave the city, b as it is stated /b in the verse: b “And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there” /b (Genesis 12:10). b And it says: “If we say: We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; /b and if we sit here, we die also, now come, and let us fall unto the host of the Arameans; if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die” (II Kings 7:4)., b What /b is the reason for citing the second verse, introduced with the term: b And it says? And if you would say /b that b this matter, /b the principle of leaving the city, applies only b where there is no uncertainty /b concerning b a life-threatening /b situation, b but where there is uncertainty /b concerning b a life-threatening /b situation this principle does b not /b apply, b come /b and b hear: “Come, and let us fall unto the host of the Arameans; if they save us alive, we shall live; /b and if they kill us, we shall but die.”, b The Sages taught: /b If there is b a plague in the city, a person should not walk in the middle of the road, due to /b the fact b that the Angel of Death walks in the middle of the road, as, since /b in Heaven b they have given him permission /b to kill within the city, b he goes openly /b in the middle of the road. By contrast, if there is b peace /b and quiet b in the city, do not walk on the sides of the road, as, since /b the Angel of Death b does not have permission /b to kill within the city, b he hides /b himself b and walks /b on the side of the road., b The Sages taught: /b If there is b a plague in the city, a person should not enter the synagogue alone, as the Angel of Death leaves his utensils there, /b and for this reason it is a dangerous place. b And this matter, /b the danger in the synagogue, applies only b when there are no children learning in /b the synagogue, b and /b there are b not ten /b men b praying in it. /b But if there are children learning or ten men praying there, it is not a dangerous place., b The Sages taught: /b If the b dogs /b in a certain place b are crying /b for no reason, it is a sign that they feel the b Angel of Death has come to the city. /b If the b dogs are playing, /b it is a sign that they feel that b Elijah the prophet has come to the city. These matters /b apply only b if there is no female /b dog among them. If there is a female dog nearby, their crying or playing is likely due to her presence.,§ b Rav Ami and Rav Asi sat before Rabbi Yitzḥak Nappaḥa. /b One b Sage said to /b Rabbi Yitzḥak Nappaḥa: b Let the Master say /b words of b i halakha /i , and /b the other b Sage said to /b Rabbi Yitzḥak Nappaḥa: b Let the Master say /b words of b i aggada /i . /b Rabbi Yitzḥak Nappaḥa b began to say /b words of b i aggada /i but /b one b Sage did not let him, /b so he b began to say /b words of b i halakha /i but /b the other b Sage did not let him. /b ,Rabbi Yitzḥak Nappaḥa b said to them: I will relate a parable. To what can this be compared? /b It can be compared b to a man who has two wives, one young and one old. The young /b wife b pulls out his white /b hairs, so that her husband will appear younger. b The old /b wife b pulls out his black /b hairs so that he will appear older. And it b turns out /b that he is b bald from here and from there, /b i.e., completely bald, due to the actions of both of his wives.,Rabbi Yitzḥak Nappaḥa continued and b said to them: If so, I will say to you a matter that is appropriate to both of you, /b which contains both i halakha /i and i aggada /i . In the verse that states: b “If a fire breaks out, and catches in thorns” /b (Exodus 22:5), the term b “breaks out” /b indicates that it breaks out b by itself. /b Yet, the continuation of the verse states: b “The one who kindled the fire shall pay compensation,” /b which indicates that he must pay only if the fire spread due to his negligence. The verse can be explained allegorically: b The Holy One, Blessed be He, said /b that although the fire broke out in the Temple due to the sins of the Jewish people, b it is incumbent upon Me to pay /b restitution b for the fire that I kindled. /b , b I, /b God, b kindled a fire in Zion, as it is stated: /b “The Lord has accomplished His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger; b and He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations” /b (Lamentations 4:11). b And I will build it with fire /b in the b future, as it is stated: “For I, /b says the Lord, b will be for her a wall of fire round about; and I will be the glory in her midst” /b (Zechariah 2:9).,There is b a i halakha /i /b that can be learned from the verse in Exodus, as b the verse begins with damage /b caused through one’s b property: /b “If a fire breaks out,” b and concludes with damage /b caused by b one’s body: /b “The one who kindled the fire.” This indicates that when damage is caused by fire, it is considered as though the person who kindled the fire caused the damage directly with his body. That serves b to say to you /b that the liability for b his fire /b damage is b due to /b its similarity to b his arrows. /b Just as one who shoots an arrow and causes damage is liable because the damage was caused directly through his action, so too, one who kindles a fire that causes damage is liable because it is considered as though the damage were caused directly by his actions.,§ The Gemara continues with another statement of i aggada /i on a related topic: The verse states: b “And David longed, and said: Oh, that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, /b and took it, and brought it to David; but he would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord” (II Samuel 23:15–16). The Sages understood that David was not simply asking for water, but was using the term as a metaphor referring to Torah, and he was raising a halakhic dilemma., b What is the dilemma /b that David b is raising? Rava says /b that b Rav Naḥman says: He was asking /b about the i halakha /i with regard to b a concealed /b article damaged by b a fire. /b He wanted to know whether the i halakha /i is b in accordance with /b the opinion of b Rabbi Yehuda, /b who holds that one is liable to pay for such damage, or b whether /b the i halakha /i is b in accordance with /b the opinion of b the Rabbis, /b who hold that one is exempt from liability for damage by fire to concealed articles. b And /b the Sages in Bethlehem b answered him what they answered him. /b , b Rav Huna stated /b a different explanation of the verse: b There were stacks of barley belonging to Jews in which the Philistines were hiding, and /b David wanted to burn down the stacks to kill the Philistines and save his own life. b He raised the dilemma: What is /b the i halakha /i ? Is it permitted b to save oneself /b by destroying b the property of another? /b , b They sent /b the following answer b to him: It is prohibited to save oneself /b by destroying b the property of another. But you are king, and a king may breach the fence /b of an individual b in order to form a path for himself, and none may protest his /b action, i.e., the normal i halakhot /i of damage do not apply to you since you are king., b The Rabbis, and some say /b that it was b Rabba bar Mari, /b give an alternative explanation of the dilemma and b said: The stacks of barley belonged to Jews, and /b there were b stacks of lentils belonging to the Philistines. /b David needed barley to feed his animals. b And /b David b raised the /b following b dilemma: What is /b the i halakha /i ? I know that I may take the lentils belonging to a gentile to feed my animals, but is it permitted b to take a stack of barley /b belonging to b a Jew, to place before one’s animal /b for it to consume, b with the intent to pay /b the owner of the barley with the b stacks of lentils belonging to the Philistines? /b ,The Sages of Bethlehem b sent /b the following reply b to him: “If the wicked restore the pledge, give back that which he had taken by robbery, /b walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die” (Ezekiel 33:15). This verse teaches that b even though /b the robber b repays /b the value of the b stolen item, he /b is nevertheless considered to be b wicked, /b and is described as such in the verse, and a commoner would not be allowed to act as you asked. b But you are king, and a king may breach the fence /b of an individual b in order to form a path for himself, and none may protest his /b action.,The Gemara discusses the different explanations: b Granted, according to the one who says /b that David was asking whether he could take the stacks of barley and b exchange /b them, i.e., repay the owners of the barley, with stacks of lentils, b this is as it is written /b in b one verse: /b “And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, b where was a plot of ground full of lentils; /b and the people fled from the Philistines” (II Samuel 23:11), b and it is written /b in b one /b other b verse: /b “He was with David at Pas Dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, b where was a plot of ground full of barley; /b and the people fled from before the Philistines” (I Chronicles 11:13). This apparent contradiction can be reconciled by saying that there were two fields, one of barley and one of lentils., b But according to /b Rav Huna, b the one who says /b that David’s question was asked because he wanted b to burn /b the stacks of barley, for b what /b purpose b does he require these two verses? /b How does he explain this contradiction? Rav Huna could have b said to you that there were also stacks of lentils belonging to Jews, inside which the Philistines were hiding. /b , b Granted, according to the one who says /b that David asked his question because he wanted b to burn /b the stacks, b this is as it is writ-ten /b in the following verse with regard to David: b “But he stood in the midst of the plot, and saved it, /b and slew the Philistines; and the Lord performed a great victory” (II Samuel 23:12). b But according to the one who says /b that David’s question was asked b with regard to exchanging /b the lentils for the barley, b what /b is the meaning of the phrase: b “And saved it”? /b ,The Rabbis answer that David saved it in b that he did not permit them to exchange /b the value of the barley with the lentils., b Granted, /b according to both of b these two /b opinions, b this is as it is written /b in b two /b distinct b verses, /b one describing the field of lentils and one describing the field of barley. |
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37. Babylonian Talmud, Hagigah, None (3rd cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 197| 5b. אינו מהם אמרו ליה רבנן לרבא מר לא בהסתר פנים איתיה ולא בוהיה לאכול איתיה אמר להו מי ידעיתו כמה משדרנא בצנעא בי שבור מלכא אפי' הכי יהבו ביה רבנן עינייהו אדהכי שדור דבי שבור מלכא וגרבוהו אמר היינו דתניא אמר רבן שמעון בן גמליאל כל מקום שנתנו חכמים עיניהם או מיתה או עוני,(דברים לא, יח) ואנכי הסתר אסתיר פני ביום ההוא אמר רבא אמר הקב"ה אף על פי שהסתרתי פני מהם בחלום אדבר בו רב יוסף אמר ידו נטויה עלינו שנאמר (ישעיהו נא, טז) ובצל ידי כסיתיך,ר' יהושע בן חנניה הוה קאי בי קיסר אחוי ליה ההוא אפיקורוסא עמא דאהדרינהו מריה לאפיה מיניה אחוי ליה ידו נטויה עלינו אמר ליה קיסר לר' יהושע מאי אחוי לך עמא דאהדרינהו מריה לאפיה מיניה ואנא מחוינא ליה ידו נטויה עלינו,אמרו ליה לההוא מינא מאי אחויית ליה עמא דאהדרינהו מריה מיניה ומאי אחוי לך לא ידענא אמרו גברא דלא ידע מאי מחוו ליה במחוג יחוי קמי מלכא אפקוהו וקטלוהו,כי קא ניחא נפשיה דרבי יהושע בן חנניה אמרו ליה רבנן מאי תיהוי עלן מאפיקורוסין אמר להם (ירמיהו מט, ז) אבדה עצה מבנים נסרחה חכמתם כיון שאבדה עצה מבנים נסרחה חכמתן של אומות העולם,ואי בעית אימא מהכא (בראשית לג, יב) ויאמר נסעה ונלכה ואלכה לנגדך,רבי אילא הוה סליק בדרגא דבי רבה בר שילא שמעיה לינוקא דהוה קא קרי (עמוס ד, יג) כי הנה יוצר הרים ובורא רוח ומגיד לאדם מה שיחו אמר עבד שרבו מגיד לו מה שיחו תקנה יש לו מאי מה שיחו אמר רב אפילו שיחה יתירה שבין איש לאשתו מגידים לו לאדם בשעת מיתה,איני והא רב כהנא הוה גני תותי פורייה דרב ושמעיה דסח וצחק ועשה צרכיו אמר דמי פומיה דרב כמאן דלא טעים ליה תבשילא אמר ליה כהנא פוק לאו אורח ארעא,לא קשיא כאן דצריך לרצויה הא דלא צריך לרצויה,(ירמיהו יג, יז) ואם לא תשמעוה במסתרים תבכה נפשי מפני גוה אמר רב שמואל בר איניא משמיה דרב מקום יש לו להקב"ה ומסתרים שמו מאי מפני גוה אמר רב שמואל בר יצחק מפני גאוותן של ישראל שניטלה מהם ונתנה לעובדי כוכבים ר' שמואל בר נחמני אמר מפני גאוותה של מלכות שמים,ומי איכא בכיה קמיה הקב"ה והאמר רב פפא אין עציבות לפני הקב"ה שנאמר (דברי הימים א טז, כז) הוד והדר לפניו עוז וחדוה במקומו לא קשיא הא בבתי גואי הא בבתי בראי,ובבתי בראי לא והא כתיב (ישעיהו כב, יב) ויקרא אדני ה' צבאות ביום ההוא לבכי ולמספד ולקרחה ולחגור שק שאני חרבן בית המקדש דאפילו מלאכי שלום בכו שנאמר (ישעיהו לג, ז) הן אראלם צעקו חוצה מלאכי שלום מר יבכיון:,(ירמיהו יג, יז) ודמע תדמע ותרד עיני דמעה כי נשבה עדר ה' אמר ר' אלעזר שלש דמעות הללו למה אחת על מקדש ראשון ואחת על מקדש שני ואחת על ישראל שגלו ממקומן ואיכא דאמרי אחת על ביטול תורה,בשלמא למאן דאמר על ישראל שגלו היינו דכתיב כי נשבה עדר ה' אלא למאן דאמר על ביטול תורה מאי כי נשבה עדר ה' כיון שגלו ישראל ממקומן אין לך ביטול תורה גדול מזה,תנו רבנן שלשה הקב"ה בוכה עליהן בכל יום על שאפשר לעסוק בתורה ואינו עוסק ועל שאי אפשר לעסוק בתורה ועוסק ועל פרנס המתגאה על הצבור,רבי הוה נקיט ספר קינות וקא קרי בגויה כי מטא להאי פסוקא (איכה ב, א) השליך משמים ארץ נפל מן ידיה אמר מאיגרא רם לבירא עמיקתא,רבי ורבי חייא הוו שקלי ואזלי באורחא כי מטו לההוא מתא אמרי איכא צורבא מרבנן הכא נזיל וניקביל אפיה אמרי איכא צורבא מרבנן הכא ומאור עינים הוא אמר ליה ר' חייא לרבי תיב את לא תזלזל בנשיאותך איזיל אנא ואקביל אפיה,תקפיה ואזל בהדיה כי הוו מיפטרי מיניה אמר להו אתם הקבלתם פנים הנראים ואינן רואין תזכו להקביל פנים הרואים ואינן נראין אמר ליה איכו השתא מנעתן מהאי בירכתא,אמרו ליה ממאן שמיעא לך מפרקיה דרבי יעקב שמיע לי דרבי יעקב איש כפר חיטייא הוה מקביל אפיה דרביה כל יומא כי קש א"ל לא נצטער מר דלא יכיל מר,אמר ליה מי זוטר מאי דכתיב בהו ברבנן (תהלים מט, י) ויחי עוד לנצח לא יראה השחת כי יראה חכמים ימותו ומה הרואה חכמים במיתתן יחיה בחייהן על אחת כמה וכמה,רב אידי אבוה דרבי יעקב בר אידי הוה רגיל דהוה אזיל תלתא ירחי באורחא וחד יומא בבי רב והוו קרו ליה רבנן בר בי רב דחד יומא חלש דעתיה קרי אנפשיה (איוב יב, ד) שחוק לרעהו אהיה וגו' א"ל ר' יוחנן במטותא מינך לא תעניש להו רבנן,נפק ר' יוחנן לבי מדרשא ודרש (ישעיהו נח, ב) ואותי יום יום ידרשון ודעת דרכי יחפצון וכי ביום דורשין אותו ובלילה אין דורשין אותו אלא לומר לך כל העוסק בתורה אפי' יום אחד בשנה מעלה עליו הכתוב כאילו עסק כל השנה כולה,וכן במדת פורענות דכתיב (במדבר יד, לד) במספר הימים אשר תרתם את הארץ וכי ארבעים שנה חטאו והלא ארבעים יום חטאו אלא לומר לך כל העובר עבירה אפי' יום אחד בשנה מעלה עליו הכתוב כאילו עבר כל השנה כולה:,אי זהו קטן כל שאינו יכול לרכוב על כתפו של אביו: מתקיף לה רבי זירא | 5b. b is not from /b among b them. The Sages said to Rava: Master, you are not subject to /b His b hiding /b of the b face, /b as your prayers are heard, b and you are not subject to: “And they shall be devoured,” /b as the authorities take nothing from you. b He said to them: Do you know how many /b gifts b I send in private to the house of King Shapur? /b Although it might seem that the monarchy does not take anything from me, in actuality I am forced to give many bribes. b Even so, the Sages looked upon /b Rava with suspicion. b In the meantime, /b messengers b from the house of King Shapur sent /b for him b and imprisoned him /b to extort more money from him. Rava b said: This is as it is taught /b in a i baraita /i that b Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: Wherever the Sages looked upon /b someone, it resulted in b either death or poverty. /b ,With regard to the verse: b “And I will hide my face in that day” /b (Deuteronomy 31:18), b Rava said /b that b the Holy One, Blessed be He, said: Even though I hid my face from them /b and My Divine Presence is not revealed, nevertheless: b “I speak with him in a dream” /b (Numbers 12:6). b Rav Yosef said: His hand is outstretched, /b guarding b over us, as it is stated: “And I have covered you in the shadow of my hand” /b (Isaiah 51:16).,The Gemara relates: b Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥaya was standing in /b the b house of the Caesar. A certain heretic, /b who was also present, b gestured to him, /b indicating that his was b the nation whose Master, /b God, b turned His face /b away b from it. /b Rabbi Yehoshua b gestured to him /b that b His hand is outstretched over us /b in protection. b The Caesar said to Rabbi Yehoshua: What did he gesture to you, /b and how did you respond? He replied: He indicated that mine is b the nation whose Master turned His face from it, and I gestured to him /b that b His hand is outstretched over us. /b ,The members of the Caesar’s household b said to that heretic: What did you gesture to him? /b He said to them: I gestured that his is b the nation whose Master has turned /b His face b from it. /b They asked: b And what did he gesture to you? /b He said to them: b I don’t know; /b I did not understand. b They said: /b How can b a man who does not know what /b others b gesture to him /b dare to b gesture in the presence of the king? They took him out and killed him. /b ,The Gemara relates: b When Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥaya was dying, the Sages said to him: What will become of us, from /b the threat of b the heretics, /b when there is no scholar like you who can refute them? b He said to them /b that the verse states: “Is wisdom no more in Teiman? b Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?” /b (Jeremiah 49:7). He explained: b Since counsel has perished from the prudent, /b from the Jewish people, the b wisdom of the nations of the world has vanished /b as well, and there will be no superior scholars among them., b And if you wish, say /b instead that the same idea can be derived b from here: “And he said: Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go corresponding to you” /b (Genesis 33:12). Just as the Jewish people rise and fall, so too, the nations of the world simultaneously rise and fall, and they will never have an advantage.,The Gemara relates that b Rabbi Ila was ascending the stairs in the house of Rabba bar Sheila, /b a children’s teacher. b He heard a child who was reading /b a verse out loud: b “For, lo, He Who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his speech” /b (Amos 4:13). Rabbi Ila b said: /b With regard to b a servant whose master declares to him what is his /b proper b speech, is there a remedy for him? /b The Gemara asks. b What /b is the meaning of the phrase: b “What is his speech”? Rav said: Even frivolous speech that is between a man and his wife /b before engaging in relations b is declared to a person at the time of death, /b and he will have to account for it.,The Gemara asks: b Is that so? /b Is it prohibited for a man to speak in this manner with his wife? b Wasn’t Rav Kahana lying beneath Rav’s bed, and he heard /b Rav b chatting and laughing /b with his wife, b and performing his needs, /b i.e., having relations with her. Rav Kahana b said /b out loud: b The mouth of Rav is like /b one who b has never eaten a cooked dish, /b i.e., his behavior is lustful. Rav b said to him: Kahana, leave, as /b this is b not proper conduct. /b This shows that Rav himself engaged in frivolous talk before relations.,The Gemara answers: This is b not difficult. Here, /b where this type of speech is permitted, it is referring to a situation b where he must appease /b his wife before relations, and therefore this speech is appropriate. However, b this /b statement, that it is prohibited, is referring to a situation b where he doesn’t need to appease her. /b In these circumstances, it is prohibited to engage in excessively lighthearted chatter with one’s wife.,The verse states: b “But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret [ i bemistarim /i ] for your pride” /b (Jeremiah 13:17). b Rav Shmuel bar Inya said in the name of Rav: The Holy One, Blessed be He, has a place /b where He cries, b and its name is Mistarim. What /b is the meaning of b “for your pride”? Rav Shmuel bar Yitzḥak said: /b God cries b due to the pride of the Jewish people, which was taken from them and given to /b the gentile b nations. Rav Shmuel bar Naḥmani said: /b He cries b due to the pride of the kingdom of Heaven, /b which was removed from the world.,The Gemara asks: b But is there crying before the Holy One, Blessed be He? Didn’t Rav Pappa say: There is no sadness before the Holy One, Blessed be He, as it is stated: “Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and gladness are in His place” /b (I Chronicles 16:27)? The Gemara responds: This is b not difficult. This /b statement, that God cries, is referring to b the innermost chambers, /b where He can cry in secret, whereas b this /b statement, that He does not cry, is referring to b the outer chambers. /b ,The Gemara asks: b And doesn’t /b God cry b in the outer chambers? Isn’t it written: “And on that day the Lord, the God of hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth” /b (Isaiah 22:12)? The Gemara responds: b The destruction of the Temple is different, as even the angels of peace cried, as it is stated: “Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the angels of peace weep bitterly” /b (Isaiah 33:7).,The verse continues: b “And my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive” /b (Jeremiah 13:17). b Rabbi Elazar said: Why these three /b references to b tears /b in the verse? b One /b is b for the First Temple; one /b is b for the Second Temple; and one /b is b for the Jewish people who were exiled from their place. And there are /b those b who say: /b The last b one /b is b for /b the unavoidable b dereliction /b of the study of b Torah /b in the wake of the exile.,The Gemara asks: b Granted, according to the one who said /b that the last tear is b for the Jewish people who were exiled, this is as it is written: “Because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.” However, according to the one who said /b that this tear is b for the dereliction /b of the study of b Torah, what /b is the meaning of: b “Because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive”? /b The Gemara answers: b Since the Jewish people were exiled from their place, there is no greater /b involuntary b dereliction /b of the study of b Torah than /b that which was caused by b this. /b , b The Sages taught /b that there are b three /b types of people b for whom the Holy One, Blessed be He, cries every day: For /b one b who is able to engage in Torah /b study b and does not engage /b in it; b and for /b one b who is unable to engage in Torah /b study and nevertheless he endeavors and b engages /b in it; b and for a leader who lords over the community. /b ,The Gemara relates: b Rabbi /b Yehuda HaNasi b was holding /b the b book of Lamentations and was reading from it. When he reached the verse: “He has cast down from heaven to earth /b the beauty of Israel” (Lamentations 2:1), in his distress the book b fell from his hand. He said: From a high roof to a deep pit, /b i.e., it is terrible to tumble from the sky to the ground.,§ The Gemara relates: b Rabbi /b Yehuda HaNasi b and Rabbi Ḥiyya were walking along the road. When they arrived at a certain city, they said: Is there a Torah scholar here whom we /b can b go and greet? /b The people of the city b said: There is a Torah scholar here but he is blind. Rabbi Ḥiyya said to Rabbi /b Yehuda HaNasi: b You sit /b here; b do not demean your /b dignified status as b i Nasi /i /b to visit someone beneath your stature. b I will go and greet him. /b ,Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi b grabbed him and went with him /b anyway, and together they greeted the blind scholar. b When they were leaving him, he said to them: You greeted /b one who is b seen and does not see; may you be worthy to greet /b the One Who b sees and is not seen. /b Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi b said to /b Rabbi Ḥiyya: b Now, if /b I had listened to you and not gone to greet him, b you would have prevented me from receiving this blessing. /b , b They said to /b the blind scholar: b From whom did you hear /b that we are worthy of this blessing? He said to them: b I heard /b it b from the instruction of Rabbi Ya’akov, as Rabbi Ya’akov of the village of Ḥitiyya would greet his teacher every day. When /b Rabbi Ya’akov b grew elderly, /b his teacher b said to him: Do not despair, my Master, that my Master is unable /b to make the effort to greet me. It is better that you should not visit me.,Rabbi Ya’akov b said to him: Is it /b a b minor /b matter, b that which is written about the Sages: “That he should still live always, that he should not see the pit. For he sees that wise men die” /b (Psalms 49:10–11)? In this regard an i a fortiori /i reference applies: b Just as one who sees Sages in their death will live, all the more so /b one who sees them b in their lifetime. /b From here the blind scholar learned the importance of greeting Torah scholars, which is why he blessed the Sages who came to greet him.,The Gemara relates: b Rav Idi, father of Rabbi Ya’akov bar Idi, would regularly travel three months on the road /b to reach the study hall b and /b as he would immediately travel back again to arrive home for the festival of i Sukkot /i , he spent only b one day in the school of Rav. And the Sages would /b disparagingly b call him: A student /b of Torah b for one day. He was offended /b and b read /b the following verse b about himself: “I am as one that is a laughingstock to his neighbor, /b a man who calls upon God, and He answers him” (Job 12:4). b Rabbi Yoḥa said to him: Please do not punish the Sages, /b i.e., do not take offense and be harsh with them, as this will cause them to be punished by God., b Rabbi Yoḥa left /b Rav Idi and went b to the study hall and taught: “Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways” /b (Isaiah 58:2). b But is /b it possible that only b during the day they seek Him and at night they do not seek Him? /b What is the meaning of daily? b Rather, /b this verse comes b to say to you /b that with regard to b anyone who engages in Torah /b study b even one day a year, the verse ascribes him /b credit b as though he engaged /b in Torah study b the entire year. /b , b And the same /b applies b to the attribute of punishment, as it is written: “After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, /b even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities” (Numbers 14:34). b But did they sin /b for b forty years? Didn’t they sin /b for only b forty days? Rather, /b this comes b to say to you /b that b anyone who transgresses a sin even one day a year, the verse ascribes him /b liability b as though he transgressed the entire year. /b ,§ The mishna taught: b Who is a minor /b who is exempt from the mitzva of appearance in the Temple? b Any /b child b who is unable to ride on his father’s shoulders /b and ascend from Jerusalem to the Temple Mount. b Rabbi Zeira strongly objects to this: /b |
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| 38. Anon., Midrash Psalms, 11.3, 98.1 (4th cent. CE - 9th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 196, 198 |
39. Anon., Exodus Rabbah, 15.2, 15.16 (4th cent. CE - 9th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 196, 197| 15.2. דָּבָר אַחֵר, הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם, אָמְרוּ מַלְאֲכֵי הַשָּׁרֵת לִפְנֵי הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא רִבּוֹן הָעוֹלָם אֵימָתַי אַתָּה עוֹשֶׂה אֶת הַמּוֹעֲדוֹת, שֶׁכֵּן כְּתִיב (דניאל ד, יד): בִּגְזֵרַת עִירִין פִּתְגָּמָא, אָמַר לָהֶם אֲנִי וְאַתֶּם מַסְכִּים עַל מַה שֶּׁיִּשְׂרָאֵל גּוֹמְרִין וּמְעַבְּרִין אֶת הַשָּׁנָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים נז, ג): אֶקְרָא לֵאלֹהִים עֶלְיוֹן לָאֵל גֹּמֵר עָלָי. וְכֵן הוּא אוֹמֵר (ויקרא כג, לז): אֵלֶּה מוֹעֲדֵי ה' מִקְרָאֵי קֹדֶשׁ וגו', אַתֶּם בֵּין בִּזְמַנָּן בֵּין שֶׁלֹא בִּזְמַנָּן, אֵין לִי מוֹעֲדוֹת אֶלָּא אֵלּוּ. אָמַר לָהֶם הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, לְשֶׁעָבַר הָיָה בְּיָדִי, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים קד, יט): עָשָׂה יָרֵחַ לְמוֹעֲדִים, אֲבָל מִכָּאן וָאֵילָךְ הֲרֵי מְסוּרָה בְּיֶדְכֶם בִּרְשׁוּתְכֶם, אִם אֲמַרְתֶּם הֵן, הֵן. אִם אֲמַרְתֶּם לָאו, לָאו. מִכָּל מָקוֹם יְהֵא הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם. וְלֹא עוֹד אֶלָּא אִם בִּקַּשְׁתֶּם לְעַבֵּר אֶת הַשָּׁנָה, הֲרֵינִי מַשְׁלִים עִמָּכֶם, לְכָךְ כְּתִיב: הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם. 15.2. דָּבָר אַחֵר, הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם, לָמָּה אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לְמשֶׁה וּלְאַהֲרֹן, לְפִי שֶׁקִּדּוּשׁ הַחֹדֶשׁ בִּשְׁלשָׁה, כְּשֶׁבִּקֵּשׁ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לְקַדֵּשׁ אֶת הַחֹדֶשׁ אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לְמשֶׁה וּלְאַהֲרֹן אֲנִי וְאַתֶּם נְקַדֵּשׁ אֶת הַחֹדֶשׁ, הֲדָא הוּא דִכְתִיב: וַיֹּאמֶר ה' אֶל משֶׁה וְאֶל אַהֲרֹן, אֲבָל עִבּוּר הַשָּׁנָה בַּעֲשָׂרָה זְקֵנִים, כְּשֶׁהָיוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ נִכְנָסִים לְעַבֵּר אֶת הַשָּׁנָה נִכְנָסִים עֲשָׂרָה זְקֵנִים בְּקִיאִים לְבֵית הַמִּדְרָשׁ וְאַב בֵּית דִּין עִמָּהֶם, וְנוֹעֲלִין אֶת הַדְּלָתוֹת וְנוֹשְׂאִין וְנוֹתְנִין בַּדָּבָר כָּל הַלַּיְלָה, בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה אוֹמְרִים לְאַב בֵּית דִּין, מְבַקְּשִׁים אָנוּ לְעַבֵּר אֶת הַשָּׁנָה שֶׁתְּהֵא הַשָּׁנָה הַזֹּאת שְׁלשָׁה עָשָׂר חֹדֶשׁ, גּוֹזֵר אַתְּ עִמָּנוּ, וְהוּא אוֹמֵר לָהֶם מַה שֶּׁדַּעְתְּכֶם אַף אֲנִי עִמָּכֶם, בְּאוֹתָהּ שָׁעָה יָצָא אוֹר מִבֵּית הַמִּדְרָשׁ וּבָא לִפְנֵיהֶם וְהָיוּ יוֹדְעִים שֶׁנִּתְרַצָּה לָהֶם הָאֱלֹהִים, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים קיב, ד): זָרַח בַּחשֶׁךְ אוֹר לַיְשָׁרִים, מַה שֶּׁהֵן גּוֹזְרִין הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מַסְכִּים עִמָּהֶם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים נז, ג): אֶקְרָא לֵאלֹהִים עֶלְיוֹן לָאֵל גֹּמֵר עָלָי, יִשְׁתַּבַּח שְׁמוֹ שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא שֶׁהַבְּרִיּוֹת גּוֹזְרִין וְהוּא מַסְכִּים, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שמואל ב כג, ג): צַדִּיק מוֹשֵׁל בְּיִרְאַת אֱלֹהִים. וּמִנַּיִן לְהִתְוָעֵד בַּעֲשָׂרָה זְקֵנִים, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (קהלת ז, יט): הַחָכְמָה תָּעֹז לֶחָכָם מֵעֲשָׂרָה שַׁלִּיטִים אֲשֶׁר הָיוּ בָּעִיר. וְכֵן בִּימֵי שְׁלֹמֹה כְּשֶׁהָיָה שְׁלֹמֹה מְעַבֵּר אֶת הַשָּׁנָה הָיָה מַכְנִיס שִׁבְעָה זְקֵנִים לְפָנָיו, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (משלי כו, טז): חָכָם עָצֵל בְּעֵינָיו מִשִּׁבְעָה מְשִׁיבֵי טָעַם. מַהוּ חָכָם עָצֵל בְּעֵינָיו, שֶׁהָיָה שְׁלֹמֹה תּוֹפֵס פִּיו שֶׁלֹא לְדַבֵּר בִּפְנֵי מִי שֶׁגָּדוֹל מִמֶּנּוּ, וְכָךְ הוּא אוֹמֵר (משלי כג, א): כִּי תֵשֵׁב לִלְחוֹם אֶת מוֹשֵׁל בִּין תָּבִין אֶת אֲשֶׁר לְפָנֶיךָ, וְאוֹמֵר (משלי כג, ב): וְשַׂמְתָּ סַכִּין בְּלֹעֶךָ אִם בַּעַל נֶפֶשׁ אָתָּה, וְהָיָה שָׁם שְׁלֹמֹה וְנָתָן הַנָּבִיא וְגָד הַחוֹזֶה, הֲרֵי עֲשָׂרָה. 15.16. דָּבָר אַחֵר, וַיֹּאמֶר ה' אֶל משֶׁה וְאֶל אַהֲרֹן בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם לֵאמֹר, מָה הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא עוֹשֶׂה בְּמִצְרַיִם בִּשְׁבִיל יִשְׂרָאֵל, אָמַר רַבִּי יִצְחָק נַפְחָא מָשָׁל לְמַטְרוֹנָה שֶׁהָיְתָה מְקַטְרֶגֶת לַמֶּלֶךְ, נְתָנָהּ בַּפִּילָקִי וְהָלַךְ לוֹ, הָיָה עִמָּהּ הַמֶּלֶךְ בַּפִּילָקִי אָמְרוּ לוֹ מָה אִכְפַּת לָךְ, אָמַר לָהֶם כָּל הַיָּמִים שֶׁאֲנִי עִמָּהּ אֵינָהּ נוֹטֶלֶת שֵׁם רָע, כָּךְ נִשְׁתַּעְבְּדוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּמִצְרַיִם וְנִגְלָה הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא כִּבְיָכוֹל עִמָּהֶם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (בראשית מו, ד): אָנֹכִי אֵרֵד עִמְךָ מִצְרַיְמָה, וְכֵן בְּבָבֶל, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ישעיה מג, יד): לְמַעַנְכֶם שִׁלַּחְתִּי בָבֶלָה, וְכֵן בְּמָדַי, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ירמיה מט, לח): וְשַׂמְתִּי כִסְאִי בְּעֵילָם, וְאֵין עֵילָם אֶלָּא מָדַי, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ישעיה כא, ב): עֲלִי עֵילָם צוּרִי מָדַי, בְּיָוָן הָיָה הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא עִמָּהֶם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (זכריה ט, יד): וַה' עֲלֵיהֶם יֵרָאֶה וְיָצָא כַבָּרָק חִצּוֹ. אָמְרוּ לוֹ לְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא כָּל כָּךְ לָמָּה, אָמַר לָהֶם כָּל הַיָּמִים שֶׁאֲנִי עִמָּהֶם אֵין נוֹטְלִין שֵׁם רָע, בְּמִצְרַיִם הָיִיתִי עִמָּהֶם וְנִמְצֵאת שְׁלֵמָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (שיר השירים ד, יב): גַּן נָעוּל אֲחוֹתִי כַלָּה. בְּבָבֶל הָיִיתִי עִמָּהֶם וְנִמְצֵאת שְׁלֵמָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דניאל ג, יז): הֵן אִיתַי אֱלָהָנָא דִי אֲנַחְנָא פָלְחִין. בְּמָדַי הָיִיתִי עִמָּהֶם וְנִמְצֵאת שְׁלֵמָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (אסתר ג, ב): וּמָרְדֳּכַי לֹא יִכְרַע וְלֹא יִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה. בְּיָוָן לֹא כָּתְבוּ עַל קֶרֶן הַשּׁוֹר שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם חֵלֶק בֵּאלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל. בֶּאֱדוֹם אִם הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא יֹאמַר הֵן מִי יֹאמַר לָאו, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ישעיה סג, א): מִי זֶה בָּא מֵאֱדוֹם. אָמַר רַבִּי שְׁמוּאֵל בַּר נַחְמָן מָשָׁל לְעָשִׁיר שֶׁיָּצָא בִּשְׁעַת הַקָּיִץ, הָיוּ אֲנָשִׁים אוֹמְרִים בַּגֹּרֶן הוּא, מֶה עָשָׂה, נִכְנַס וּבְיָדוֹ פְּרָכִיל שֶׁל עֲנָבִים, כְּדֵי שֶׁיֵּדְעוּ הַכֹּל שֶׁבָּא מִן הַכֶּרֶם. כָּךְ הָעוֹבְדֵי כּוֹכָבִים אָמְרוּ לָהֶם לְיִשְׂרָאֵל הֵיכָן אֱלֹהֵיכֶם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דברים לב, לז): אֵי אֱלֹהֵימוֹ, (ישעיה מז, ח): וְעַתָּה שִׁמְעִי נָא זֹאת עֲדִינָה הַיּוֹשֶׁבֶת לָבֶטַח וגו', מַה הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא עָתִיד לַעֲשׂוֹת לָהּ (דברים לב, מב): אַשְׁכִּיר חִצַּי מִדָּם, וְלֹא זֹאת בִּלְבָד אֶלָּא שֶׁעָתִיד לְדָרְכָן, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ישעיה סג, ג): פּוּרָה דָרַכְתִּי לְבַדִּי, וְהוּא עָתִיד לִדְרֹךְ בְּמִנְעָלוֹ לְכָל גְּדוֹלֵי אֱדוֹם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים ס, י): עַל אֱדוֹם אַשְׁלִיךְ נַעֲלִי. | |
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| 40. Ugaritic, V Ab B, 6-7, 5 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 20 |
| 41. Anon., Lexicon Artis Grammaticae (E Cod. Coislin. 345), 23.8 Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 194, 196 |
| 42. Ugaritic, Ktu, None Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 91 |
| 43. Ugaritic, Ugaritica, 5.3.9 Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 90 |
| 44. Anon., Beshalah, Pet., None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
| 45. Anon., Pesiqta De Rav Kahana, 5.3, 17.5 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 196, 197 |
| 46. Anon., Pesiqta De-Rabbi Eliezer, 9 Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 214 |
| 47. Anon., Pesikta Rabbati, 21 Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 142, 196 |
| 48. Assyrian, Cta, 2.1.2, 2.1.6, 3.3.35-3.3.36, 4.4.21-4.4.22, 5.1.1-5.1.3, 23.33-23.35 Tagged with subjects: •thematic innovation Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 85, 86, 87, 92 |
| 49. Yose Ben Yose, Piyyutim, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
| 50. Anon., Tanhuma, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 142 |
