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260 f. 177a. Hillel had eighty pupils, thirty like Moses,thirty like Joshua, and twenty between the two. Of these,the greatest was Jonathan b. Uzziel. Rabbi Johanan benZakkai, the famous scholar, was the least!!![ Details aregiven in the text of the scholarship of both.]
261 f. 177b. The people of Alexandria put 12 questions to R.Joshua b. Hananya and he answered them all satisfactorily.Three concerned legal decisions, three Agada, three common-place, three ethical. They all rested on statements, seeminglycontradictory, in the Bible.
262 f. 178b. Rabbi Gamliel saw R. Akiba in a shipthat had foundered and found him afterwards when hecame to shore. R. Akiba had floated on a piece of woodand had thus been saved.
263 f. 179a. Rabbi Judah son of R. Elai, Rabbi Jose,and Rabbi Shimeon b. Johai discussed together with Judahb. Giri, the merits of the Romans. Rabbi Juda praisedthem. Rabbi Jose kept silent. Rabbi Shimeon blamedthem. Juda b. Giri denounced them. In consequenceR. Judah was raised to a high position. Rabbi Jose wasexiled to Sepphoris and Rabbi Shimeon b. Johai had toflee for his life, and hid with his son in a cavern for thirteenyears. After that his father- in- law, R. Pineḥas b. Jair foundhim full of scars and wounds. He was restored to health.264 f. 180b. Rabbi Judah ha- Nassi wanted to excludethe ignorant from his alms in a years of famine. He wastaught better by his pupil Jonathan b. Amran who askedto be fed if only like a dog, under the pretence that hewas an ignorant man. He thus learned that everybodymust be fed.
265 f. 181a. Abdêmos Hagardi asked Rabbi Meir how theearth was created. He sent him to Abba Josef the builder,whom he found[ sitting] on a beam, and from whom he heardthat it was created from a snowball under the Throne of God.266 f. 181 b. Rabbi Gamliel and Rabbi Joshua were ina boat. Rabbi Joshua was better informed as to the lengthof the journey through his star- lore. More learned still were