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fiery stones came down from the sky; at that of R'Menahem [b. Simai]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So MS.M.');">⁵⁰</span> all images were effaced<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As he refused to look even at the image of coins. Cf. J.A.Z. ibid. 'At the death of R. Nahum b. Simai they covered all the images, saying that as he never looked at them in his lifetime he should not see them after he fell asleep'.');">⁵²</span> and came to be [used] as stone rollers;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra 11a.');">⁵³</span> at that of Tanhum son of R'Hiyya [of Kefar Acco]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M. and other texts, v. J.A.Z. ibid.');">⁵¹</span> all human statues were torn out of their position; at that of [R'Isaac, son of R.]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M. and other texts, v. J.A.Z. ibid.');">⁵¹</span> Eliashib seventy houses were broken into [by theives] at Tiberias;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So MS.M. CC. more correctly than Nehardea of cur. edd., as J.A.Z. ibid. states it happened in Galilee and Ta'an. ');">⁵⁴</span> at that of R'Haninuna,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mentioned supra p. 158.');">⁵⁵</span> hail stones came down from the sky; at that of Rabbah and R'Joseph the rocks of the Euphrates kissed each other;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., they were thrown together, probably referring to the tier rocks which carried the bridges of the river. Cf. B.M. ');">⁵⁶</span> at that of Abaye and Raba the rocks of the Tigris kissed each other. When the soul of R'Mesharsheya went into repose the palms were laden with thorns.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [According to the Meiri (Jerusalem 1937) , these were figures of speech introduced by orators as the funerary orations respectively on the deaths of the above-named scholars, describing the gravity of the loss.]');">⁵⁷</span> Our Rabbis taught:

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