Related%20passage for Berakhot 117:1

כטרפא דטריף והאי דאזלא בתרה דאמרה לה הב לי בני שבשעה שהקב"ה בקש להביא מבול לעולם נטל שני כוכבים מכימה והביא מבול לעולם וכשבקש לסתמה נטל שני כוכבים מעיש וסתמה

it has the appearance of having been torn away [from the star] ; and the reason that the 'Ajish follows the Kimah is that it says to it, "Give me back my children." For when the Holy One, blessed be He, sought to bring the flood upon the world. He took two stars from the Pleiades and thus brought the flood upon the world ; and when He sought to stop it, He took two stars from the Bear and stopped it.

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