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that his body should remain uncorrupted and litigants usedto appear before his house to invoke his decisions and a voiceused to come out of the loft deciding the cases. The sages,being so advised in a dream, went to fetch the body awayin order to inter it, but the people of the place would notallow them to take it, because as long as the body was thereno wild beasts came near. They obtained possession of thebody, however, by a ruse, and brought it to the place wherehis father was buried. A snake was found around it, so theysaid" Snake, let the son come to the father!" And the snakeuncoiled itself and let the people lay son and father besideeach other. After his death R. Jehudah wanted to marryEleazar's widow, but she refused, saying that her husbandhad been superior to him both in scholarship and actions,ever bearing suffering and pain without a murmur. Eleazar,for love of God, invited pain, but R. Jehuda sufferedthem as punishment, because once a calf, led to slaughter,sought refuge in his bosom, and he had refused to shelterit, saying," For this wert thou created," and because hehad not, on one occasion, prevented his servant fromturning a litter of kittens out of the house. The son ofR. Eleazar, named Joseph was taken by his mother'sbrother R. Shimeon b. José b. Laqonia who educated himand made him a great scholar.
96. Rabbi Jehudah educated the daughter of R. Tarfon.- R. Joseph fasted twice four times to preserve the love ofstudy in his family.- R. Ze'ira fasted for R. El'aä to savehim from Gehinam& c. He sat in a fiery furnace unhurtexcept that he was once singed.
97. R. Akiba started to love study through performing thereligious duty of burying a corpse found in a field.
98. A man was condemned by R. Akiba to pay a fine forhaving publicly dishevelled the hair of a woman. Advisedby another man, he went and broke a jar of oil at her door.She came out and wiped it up with her hair. By this trickhe thought to get out of the fine. But R. Akiba ruled:" voluntary and forced are different."