Quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 50:11

כי נח נפשיה דר' יוחנן יתיב רבי אמי שבעה ושלשים אמר רבי אבא בריה דרבי חייא בר אבא רבי אמי דעבד לגרמיה הוא דעבד דהכי אמר ר' חייא בר אבא אמר ר' יוחנן אפילו רבו שלימדו חכמה אינו יושב עליו אלא יום אחד

went into repose, R'Isaac B'Eleazar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lived and taught at Caesarea.');">³⁸</span> opened [his address] thus: This day is as hard for Israel as the day when the sun set at noon-tide, as it is written: And it shall come to pass in that day. that I will cause the sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth in the clear day. And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. as the mourning of an only so,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Amos VIII, 9-10.');">³⁹</span> And, said R'Johanan, that was the day of King Josiah's death.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At Megiddo. V. Ii Chron. XXXV, 23-25; Rashi on v. 25; Targum on Lam. IV, 20; infra p. 188 and Ta'an. 22b.');">⁴⁰</span> When the soul of R'Johanan went into repose R'Ami observed [on his account] the seven [days of mourning] and the thirty.

Explore quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 50:11. In-depth commentary and analysis from classical Jewish sources.