Commentary for Berakhot 124:6
רבי אלעזר על לבית הכסא אתא ההוא פרסאה דחקיה קם ר' אלעזר ונפק אתא דרקונא שמטיה לכרכשיה קרי עליה רבי אלעזר (ישעיהו מג, ד) ואתן אדם תחתיך אל תקרי אדם אלא אדום:
R. Eleazar entered a privy ; a certain Roman came and pushed him. R. Eleazar got up and went out ; and a serpent came and tore out the [Roman's] gut. R. Eleazar applied to him the verse : "Therefore will I give a man under thee" (Is. xliii. 4) — read not adam "a man" but Edom "an Edomite."
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
M.: Eliezer.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Many edd. read "Persian" for fear of the Censor.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Edom being considered the prototype of Rome.
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