Quoting%20commentary for Bava Metzia 167:7
אמר רבי יוחנן אנא אישתיירי משפירי ירושלים האי מאן דבעי מחזי שופריה דרבי יוחנן נייתי כסא דכספא מבי סלקי ונמלייה פרצידיא דרומנא סומקא ונהדר ליה כלילא דוורדא סומקא לפומיה ונותביה בין שמשא לטולא ההוא זהרורי מעין שופריה דר' יוחנן
R. Johanan said: The waist of R. Ishmael son of R. Jose was as a bottle of nine <i>kabs</i> capacity. R. papa said: R. Johanan's waist was as a bottle containing five <i>kabs</i>; others say, three <i>kabs</i>. That of R. papa himself was as [large as] the wicker-work baskets of Harpania.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [A rich agricultural town in the Mesene district S. of Babylon, famous for its manufacture of baskets made of fibres of palm leaves. V. Obermeyer, op. cit. p. 200. This humourous and exaggerated description of the figures of these Rabbis has been stated to prevent any stigma being attached to the offspring of people of large contour, Tosaf.] ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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