Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Bava Batra 32:1

ללדת עולה לראש ההר כדי שיפול ממנה וימות ואני מזמין לה נשר שמקבלו בכנפיו ומניחו לפניה ואלמלי מקדים רגע אחד או מתאחר רגע אחד מיד מת בין רגע לרגע לא נתחלף לי בין איוב לאויב נתחלף לי

delivery, she goes up to the top of a mountain so that the young shall fall down and be killed, and I prepare an eagle to catch it in his wings and set it before her, and if he were one second too soon or too late it would be killed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [V. Lewysohn, Zoologie des Talmuds, p. 115.] ');"><sup>1</sup></span> I do not confuse one moment with another, and shall I confuse Iyob with Oyeb? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? This hind has a narrow womb. When she crouches for delivery, I prepare a serpent which bites her at the opening of the womb, and she is delivered of her offspring; and were it one second too soon or too late, she would die.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Lewysohn, op. cit., p. 111. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>

Tosafot on Bava Batra

As it was difficult for Rashba - let Job also be counted, as we say (Bava Batra 15b), "'And the asses were feeding beside them' (Job 1:14) - this teaches that [the Holy One, Blessed be He, had Job taste something akin to the world to come." But it can be said that Job was only in one matter, [whereas] He had Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov taste from all of it.
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