Moed Katan 25b — the Talmud in English

When they reached

the place where they had to cross

a bridge

a narrow bridge, on which it was impossible for two camels to pass side by side, but only in a single file, one after the other,

the camels stood still,

the camels carrying the biers stood there and did not want to continue on their way toward the bridge.

He said to them

he asked them

that Ishmaelite merchant

an Ishmaelite merchant:

What is this,

what happened to these camels that they are not continuing on their way?

They said to him:

the camels stopped because of

the Sages,

Rabba bar Rav Huna and Rav Hamnuna, who had died,

for they were honoring one another,

each honoring the other by letting him go first and cross the bridge, and because of this the camels were prevented from moving.

One master said: Let the master enter first, and

on the other hand,

one master said: Let the master enter first .

He said

that Ishmaelite merchant:

It is the law that Rabba bar Rav Huna should enter first.

The camel passed

passed

of Rabba bar Rav Huna

first.

And the Ishmaelite merchant was punished for having insulted Rav Hamnuna.

And therefore:

the teeth

fell out

of the cheeks

of

the two

and his two teeth

of that Ishmaelite merchant.

A

began words of eulogy

over it,

over the arrival of the biers of Rabba bar Rav Huna and Rav Hamnuna,

that child,

and he said as follows:

A stock of elders

Rabba bar Rav Huna, who was of an important stock, being the son of Rav Huna, who had been head of the exile, and he was even superior to the Nasi in the Land of Israel,

rose from Babylonia, and with him

also rose Rav Hamnuna, who was called

“Book of Wars,”

which is a designation for a Torah scroll. “

Kaat and kipod”

an expression of a curse, for ruin and desolation, where only kaat and kipod walk

were doubled

through the deaths of Rabba bar Rav Huna and Rav Hamnuna.

And the Holy One, blessed be He, did this in order

to see

to show

the plunder in the plunder and the breaking that is to come from Shinar.

The Holy One, blessed be He, showed that

He was angry at His world and robbed it of souls.

And He rejoiced

the Holy One, blessed be He

in them,

in the souls that He had robbed from His world and brought to Him,

as

a groom rejoices in

the bride

the

new

one belonging to him.

For the Holy One, blessed be He, who is

the Rider of the Clouds, rejoices and is glad when a soul comes to Him

of a person who is

pure and righteous.

When Ravina’s soul departed, that

eulogizer began over him:

Even the trees of the

date palms moved their heads, over a righteous man

who blossomed

like a date palm.

But we

will make nights like days

in eulogy

for

Ravina, who was

making nights like days,

when he studied Torah also at night.

He said to him

he asked

Rav Ashi to bar Kipok

the eulogizer:

On that day

when I depart from the world—

what will you say,

how will you eulogize me?

He said to him, I will say,

I will say this:

If the flame fell upon cedars—

what will the hyssops of the wall do!?

If

Leviathan was raised with a hook—

what will the small fish do!?

If

a hook fell in a rushing stream—

what will the water of pools do,

which is collected!?

bar Avin said to him

the eulogizer to bar Kipok the eulogizer:

Heaven forbid that “

hook and flame”

I should say concerning righteous men,

I did not say this in relation to righteous men.

And what will you say?

I will say

thus:

Weep for the mourners and not for the lost object.

Since

she

is going

to rest, and

whereas

we

remain

for sighing.

His mind was weakened

of Rav Ashi

over them,

over the words of the two eulogizers, for one compared him to a flame and the other to a lost object,

and

as punishment for having caused the weakening of Rav Ashi’s mind

their legs were reversed

of the two eulogizers.

And since a mishap occurred to them through him,

on that day

that Rav Ashi died—

they did not come

the two eulogizers

to eulogize him!

And this is what Rav Ashi said: Neither bar Kipok can perform halitza, nor can bar Avin perform halitza

with his yevama, since one whose foot was reversed cannot perform halitza.

When Rava would come to the Tigris, he would say to bar Avin: Arise, say a matter.

Bar Avin stood

bar Avin

and said: The majority of the third came

the Jewish people are called “the third,” and Rava was as important as the majority of Israel

in the water:

Concerning us:

Remember and have mercy! We strayed from after You like a woman

who strays

from her husband; do not abandon us like the water of bitterness

with which a woman suspected of adultery is tested.

Hanin, Yohanan, Zeira, Abba, Yaakov, Yosei, Shmuel, Hiyya, Menahem—

a mnemonic. .

Rabbi Hanin was the son-in-law of the house of the Nasi; he did not have children, he pleaded for mercy and had children. On that day on which he had

a son—

his soul departed.

That eulogizer began over him: Joy was turned into grief, gladness and sorrow clung together; at the time of his joy he sighed, at the time of his Hanin’s birth

the birth of the child,

his Hanin was lost,

his father.

They called

called

him Hanan, after his name.

When Rabbi Yohanan’s soul departed, Rabbi

Yitzhak ben Elazar began over him: Hard is the day for Israel like the day when the sun comes in midday. As it is written

[Amos 8] “

And it shall be on that day, and I shall bring the sun at midday.”

And Rabbi Yohanan said: This is the day of Josiah.

When Rabbi Yohanan’s soul departed, Rabbi Ami sat seven and thirty.

Rabbi Abba, son of Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba, said: What Rabbi Ami did—

he did for himself.

For thus Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba said in the name of Rabbi Yohanan: Even for one’s teacher who taught him wisdom—

one sits for him only one day.

When Rabbi Zeira’s soul departed,

who was born in Babylonia and grew up in the Land of Israel:

That eulogizer began over him: The land of Shinar conceived and gave birth,

to Rabbi Zeira.

Land of the deer

the Land of Israel

raised its delights.

Woe to her, said Rakkat

Tiberias

for she has lost her precious vessel.

When Rabbi Abbahu’s soul departed, they brought down

they lowered

the pillars of Caesarea’s water,

tears.

For Rabbi Yosei—

the gutters of Sepphoris flowed with blood (364) .

For Rabbi Yaakov—

they appeared

were seen

stars in the daytime .

For Rabbi Asi—

all the trees were uprooted.

For Rabbi Hiyya—

stones descended

stones

of fire

fire

from the sky.

For Rabbi Menahem bar Rabbi Simai—

the

faces of

the images

the statues

were crushed,

flattened, and the figures stamped on silver coins also became flat.

For Rabbi Tanḥum bar Hiyya—

all the statues were cut down.

For Rabbi Elishiv—

seventy tunnels were dug

were excavated

in Nehardea.

For through his merit there were no thieves there during his lifetime.

For Rav Hamnuna—

stones of hail descended

stones

from the sky.

For Rabba and Rav Yosef—

the stones of the Euphrates struck one another.

For Abaye and Rava—

the stones struck one another

the arches of the bridges

of the

river

Tigris, since they broke and the parts of the bridge arches touched one another. .

as the bridges broke and their parts struck one another. .

When Rav Mesharshiya’s soul departed—

the date palms bore

thorns instead of dates.