Related%20passage for Taanit 44:9
ועוד גזרו תענית על שאכלו זאבים כו' אמר עולא משום ר' שמעון בן יהוצדק מעשה ובלעו זאבים שני תינוקות והקיאום דרך בית הרעי ובא מעשה לפני חכמים וטיהרו את הבשר וטמאו את העצמות:
When he was dying Jeremiah observed that his lips were moving and he feared that perhaps, Heaven forfend,[Josiah] was saying something improper because of his great pain; he thereupon bent down and he overheard him justifying [God's] decree against himself saying, The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against His word.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lam. I, 18.');"><sup>5</sup></span> He [Jeremiah] then cited of him, The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. IV, 20.');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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