Commentary for Taanit 45:14
אמר ר' יוחנן כל ימיו של אותו צדיק היה מצטער על מקרא זה (תהלים קכו, א) שיר המעלות בשוב ה' את שיבת ציון היינו כחולמים אמר מי איכא דניים שבעין שנין בחלמא
Is it possible for a man to dream continuously for seventy years?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Jer. XXV, 11; XXIX, 10.');"><sup>12</sup></span> One day he was journeying on the road and he saw a man planting a carob tree; he asked him, How long does it take [for this tree] to bear fruit? The man replied: Seventy years.
Rashi on Taanit
Of that righteous man - Choni HaMe’aggel - he was distressed over this verse.
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Rashi on Taanit
A song of Ascents: It is an expression of ascending.
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Rashi on Taanit
We were like those who dream: The Babylonian exile, which was seventy years, was like a dream.
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Rashi on Taanit
Seventy years in a dream: By way of a question: Is there someone who sleeps seventy years in his dream; and is there any person who sleeps seventy years at one time?
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Chidushei Agadot on Taanit
A song of Maalot, etc. Rashi explained, it is an expression of ascending (iluy). To here are his [words]. But in the chapter [entitled] HaChalil and in Tractate Makkot, it is explained that it is based on the fifteen ascending steps (maalot) in the Temple, in the courtyard.
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