Commentary for Bava Batra 147:8

רבי יוחנן משתעי זימנא חדא הוה קא אזלינן בספינתא וחזינן ההיא קרטליתא דהוו קא מקבעי בה אבנים טובות ומרגליות והדרי לה מיני דכוורי דמקרי כרשא נחית

and they say thus: "Moses and his law are truth and we<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and they'. ');">¹⁸</span> are liars".' He said unto me: 'Come, I will show you where heaven and earth touch one another.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'kiss'. ');">²¹</span> I took up my [bread] basket and placed it in a window of heaven. When I concluded my prayers I looked for it but did not find it. I said unto him: 'Are there thieves here?' He replied to me: 'It is the heavenly wheel revolving. Wait here until tomorrow and you will find it.' R. Johanan related: Once we were travelling on board a ship and we saw a fish that raised its head out of the sea. Its eyes were like two moons, and water streamed from its two nostrils as [from] the two rivers of Sura.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Rashb. [Another rendering: 'And water gushed forth from its nostrils at (a height) as (the length) of two Sura-canoes'. i.e., the ferry boats that sailed about in the canal of Sura, v. Obermeyer. op. cit. 292.] ');">²²</span> R. Safra related: Once we travelled on board a ship and we saw a fish that raised its head out of the sea. It had horns on which was engraven: 'I am a minor creature of the sea, I am three hundred parasangs [in length] and I am [now] going into the mouth of Leviathan.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To supply his daily meal. Leviathan, cf. Ps. CIV, 26 and Job XL, 25. In the Talmud, a legendary monster fish reserved for the righteous in the world to come. ');">²³</span> R. Ashi said: It was a sea-goat which searches [for its food] and [for that purpose] has horns. R. Johanan related: Once we were travelling on board a ship and we saw a chest in which were set precious stones and pearls and it was surrounded by a species of fish called Karisa.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Probably, shark. ');">²⁴</span> There went down

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