Commentary for Taanit 18:16

כמאן אזלא [הא] דא"ר חנינא (תהלים לג, ז) כונס כנד מי הים נותן באוצרות תהומות מי גרם לאוצרות שיתמלאו בר תהומות כרבי אליעזר ור' יהושע ההוא

For if it were not so, how will you explain, Powder and dust from heaven? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXVIII, 24.');">¹⁶</span> What you must [say is] that as these rise upwards [from the ground] the words, 'from heaven' are quite aptly applied to them. Likewise as the waters eventually find their way above Scripture aptly refers to them as, from Thine upper chambers'. Whose view supports R'Hanina who said this, He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deeps in storehouses,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. XXXIII, 7.');">¹⁷</span> [as meaning,] Who caused the storehouses to be filled with grain? The deeps-the view of R'Eliezer. And what of R'Joshua's [view]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How does he explain this verse?');">¹⁸</span> - That [verse] refers to Creation of the world.

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