Commentary for Taanit 9:11

R'Nahman said to R'Isaac: What is the meaning of the scriptural verse, For the Lord hath called for a famine, and it shall also come upon the land seven years?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Kings VIII, 1.');">⁹</span> What had they to eat during these seven years? - He replied: Thus said R'Johanan, In the first year they ate what was stored up in the houses, in the second what was in the fields, in the third the flesh of clean animals, in the fourth the flesh of unclean animals, in the fifth the flesh of forbidden animals and reptiles, in the sixth the flesh of their sons and daughters and in the seventh the flesh of their own arms and thus the verse of Scripture was fulfilled, They eat every man the flesh of his own arms.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa, IX, 19. tk');">¹⁰</span>

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