Commentary for Berakhot 20:1
א"ר חנן אפי' בעל החלומות אומר לו לאדם למחר הוא מת אל ימנע עצמו מן הרחמים שנאמר (קהלת ה, ו) כי ברוב חלומות והבלים ודברים הרבה כי את האלהים ירא
R. Hanan said : Even if the lord of dreams inform a man that he will die on the morrow, he should not despair of [the divine] mercy; as it is said, "For through the multitude of dreams and vanities there are also many words ; but fear thou God" (Eccles. v. 6),
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The phrase used here is identical with that in Gen. xxxvii. 19 applied to Joseph. More usually we have "The master of the dream," which merely represents the personification of the dream. See Bacher in R. E. J, xxxv. p. 238, n. 2.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
M. adds : Finally Isaiah gave him his daughter in marriage, and there issued from him Manasseh and Rabshakeh. One day Hezekiah carried them on his shoulder to the Synagogue ; and one of them said, "Father's bald head would be fine for breaking nuts on," while the other said, "[It would be fine] to roast fish on." He threw them to the ground, and Rabshakeh was killed, but not Manasseh. He applied to them the verse, "The instruments also of the churl are evil ; he deviseth wicked devices" (Is. xxxii. 7).
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