Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 61:19

וכנגדן גלתה סנהדרין מגמרא מלשכת הגזית לחנות ומחנות לירושלים ומירושלים ליבנה

R'Johanan said: The Divine Presence tarried for Israel in the wilderness six months in the hope that they would repent. When [it saw that] they did not repent, it said, Let their soul expire, as it says, But the eyes o the wicked shall fail and they shall have no way to flee and their hope shall be the expiry of the soul.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Job. XI, 20.');">⁴⁶</span> 'Correspondingly the Sanhedrin wandered to ten places of banishment, as we know from tradition', namely, from the Chamber of Hewn Stone<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Lishkath ha-Gazith in the inner court of the Temple, v. J.E. XII, p. 576].');">⁴⁷</span> to Hanuth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'shop', 'bazaar', to which the Sanhedrin removed when they ceased to judge capital cases. [Hanuth was a place on the Temple Mount outside the Chamber of Hewn Stone. Derenbourg, Essai p. 467, identifies it with the Chamber of the Sons of Hanan (a powerful priestly family, cf. Jer. XXXV, 4) mentioned in J. Pe'ah 1,5.]');">⁴⁸</span> and from Hanuth to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to Jabneh,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jamnia, in Judea. This was in the time of R. Johanan b. Zaccai.');">⁴⁹</span>

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