Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 167:1
כי האי מעשה לידיה פגע ביה אליהו
[One day] Elijah met him and remonstrated with him: 'How long will you deliver the people of our God to execution!' — 'What can I do', he replied, 'it is the royal decree.' 'Your father fled to Asia,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jose b. Halafta fled to Asia Minor in consequence of his having been ordained by Judah b. Baba (Sanh. 14a) in defiance of the Hadrianic edict. ');"><sup>1</sup></span>
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