Jewish%20thought for Rosh Hashanah 22:7

ר' אליעזר אומר אותו היום י"ז במרחשון היה יום שמזל כימה עולה ביום ומעיינות מתגברים

[which means], a night which has been continuously watched for from the six days of the creation. What says the other to this? - [He says it means], a night which is under constant protection against evil spirits.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., on this night they are not allowed to roam as on other nights.');">⁷</span> R'Joshua and R'Eliezer are herein consistent [with views expressed by them elsewhere], as it has been taught: 'In the sixth hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. VII, 11.');">⁸</span> R'Joshua said: That day was the seventeenth day of Iyar, when the constellation of Pleiades sets at daybreak and the fountains begin to dry up, and because they [mankind] perverted their ways, the Holy One, blessed be He, changed for them the work of creation and made the constellation of Pleiades rise at daybreak and took two stars from the Pleiades and brought a flood on the world. R'Eliezer said: That day was the seventeenth of Marheshvan, a day on which the constellation of Pleiades rises at daybreak, and [the season] when the fountains begin to fill

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