Commentary for Berakhot 34:3
דאמר רב יהודה אמר רב בכל יום ויום בת קול יוצאת מהר חורב ואומרת כל העולם כולו נזונין בשביל חנינא בני וחנינא בני די לו בקב חרובין מערב שבת לערב שבת
Every day a Bat Kol issues from Mount Horeb and proclaims : "All the world is nourished for the sake of My son, Hannina, but My son, Hannina, is satisfied with a Kab of locusts from the Sabbath-eve to the next Sabbath-eve."
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
"From Mount Horeb" should probably be omitted, being a reminiscence of Abot vi. 2 (Singer, p. 205). Cf. Bacher, A.B.A. p. 11 n. 58.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
I.e. Hannina b. Dosa who was renowned as an ascetic and thaumaturgist. See fol. 33 a, 34 b, pp. 219, 230, 232.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The carob-tree or locust was the food of the poorest and of ascetics (cf. Matt. iii. 4), and despised by the people. The Midrash declares: When the Children of Israel are obliged to eat carobs, they become repentant; Levit. Rab. xxxv. 6.
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