Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Yoma 107:4

ותניא ר' יוסי אומר שבע שנים נתקיימה גפרית ומלח בארץ ישראל ואמר רבי יוחנן מאי טעמא דרבי יוסי אתיא ברית ברית כתיב הכא (דניאל ט, כז) והגביר ברית לרבים שבוע אחד וכתיב התם (דברים כט, כד) ואמרו על אשר עזבו את ברית ה' אלהי אבותם

Surely it was taught:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shab. 145b.');"><sup>5</sup></span> R'Judah said: For fifty-two years no human being passed as it is said: For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation; because they are burned up, so that none passeth through, and they hear not the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled and gone,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. IX, 9.');"><sup>6</sup></span> and the numerical<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The numerical value serves only as 'asmakta' or intimation. Rashi goes through a closely reasoned argument to account for the fifty-two years.');"><sup>7</sup></span>

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