Jewish%20thought for Sanhedrin 207:16

ת"ר מעשה בשני בני אדם שנשבו בהר הכרמל והיה שבאי מהלך אחריהם

'Sit [badad]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H]. ');">³⁰</span> Solitary': Rabbah said in R. Johanan's name: The Holy One, blessed be He, exclaimed, 'I said, "Israel then shall dwell in safety alone [badad].' the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew,"31 but now they shall sit solitary.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., desolate. ');">³²</span> The city that was full of people. Rabbah said in R. Johanan's name: They used to marry off a young girl to an adult, and a minor to a full-grown woman, that they might bear many children.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is meant to exclude marriage where both are minors. ');">³³</span> She is become as a widow. Rab Judah said in Rab's name: As a widow, yet not a widow in fact: as a woman whose husband had gone overseas, but intends returning to her. She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces: Rabbah said in R. Johanan's name: Wherever they went, they became princes of their masters.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even in the Diaspora they forged to the front ranks. ');">³⁴</span> Our Rabbis taught: It once happened that two men [Jews] were taken captive on Mount Carmel, and their captor was walking behind them.

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