Kabbalah for Sanhedrin 75:6
עולא אמר שהקדים שתי שנים לונושנתם
Thereupon he [Rabbi] exclaimed: You throw thorns in my eyes, my children!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They were foretelling the abolition of the Nasi's office which he, Rabbi, occupied. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> At this, R. Hiyya [his disciple] remarked: Master, be not angered, for the numerical value of the letters of yayin<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] 10 + 10 + 50 = 70. [Ms.M. omits [H] letters. If retained it must be taken as a direct translation of the Gr. grammata derived from gramma 'letter', hence the equivalent of [H], cf. Rashi. V. Gandz, S., op. cit. 90 and J.E. V, 589.] ');"><sup>11</sup></span>
Da'at Tevunoth
64 But the first man was enticed by desire and his lust, and then he returned and thought up bad logical arguments in order to make it easier for himself. And therefore this is like that which our Rabbis of blessed memory said (Sanhedrin 63b), "Israel did not worship Idol worship other than to permit themselves illicit relations in public"; and the Rabbis of blessed memory said (Sanhedrin 38a), "The first man was a heretic". And here, then it was necessary to show him through wonder what he did not want to grasp from the aspect of knowledge, and this was to show him what negativity is truly; and how, even though he is given such a large space, in the end everything has to come to the rulership of the singular good; and this is the difficult path of this world that was decreed upon him, in order that in the end he come to the faith that he did not want to stand by from the beginning, rather that it will be made clear to him through wonder in detail, that which he could have grasped from the beginning, and to make clear to hime everything in one moment:
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