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his two pupils Elazar ha- Sama and Johanan b. Gadgada,who were none the less starving. Afterwards Rabbi Gamlielappointed them to high positions.[ The reason is given whythe rabbi was surnamed ha- Sama( the ashamed)].

267 f. 18a. Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Joshua were togetheron a boat. R. Joshua was startled by a great light, probablythe eyes of the leviathan.

268 f. 182 a. Rabina learned from Rabbi Tabut( orTabyome) that there was truth in the world and a placewhere truth was strictly observed. There, through a lietold inadvertently, a man brought death on his child andwas banished from the place.

269 f. 182a. Rabbi Juda b. Elai set his pupils the exampleof joining in the rejoicing of bridal processions, since Godhad created Eve as a bride and brought her to Adam andacted as sponsor. Since then man acted in that capacity.270 f.183 a. Rabbi Judah learnt from Antoninus thatthe evil inclination was created in man from the momentof birth and the soul from the moment of conception.

271 f. 183a. Ishmael had a Moabite wife. She refusedhospitality to Abraham whom she did not recognise. He leftword for Ishmael that he was to remove the" threshold!"He therefore sent that wife away and took another whoproved very hospitable and was commended by Abraham.

272 f. 183b. Rabbi Hiya b. Adda having suffered a bere-avement, R. Jehuda b. Nahmam improvised a series of con-dolence addresses.

273 f. 185a. Rab objected to and refused to eat meatbrought on a boat although he had never lost sight thereof.-Rabbi Johanan listened to a verse recited by a child; hetook it as an omen and did not go to Babylon to see Samuelafter the death of Rab.

274 f. 186a. Both R. Judah, and R. Hiya refreshed theirknowledge of Halaḥoth from a Kobeş whom originally theyhad slighted.

275 f. 186b. The Story of Geḥazi whom Elisha had cursedwith leprosy and to whom he afterwards went to pacify.