Related%20passage for Shabbat 242:8

א"ר אבא בר כהנא פעם אחת נפל אחד בבהמ"ד ועמד ניותי אחד והרגו אמר רבי פגע בו כיוצא בו

Our Rabbis taught: If one chances upon snakes and scorpions, and he kills them, it is manifest that he had chanced upon them in order to kill them; if he does not kill them, it is manifest that he had chanced upon them that they should kill him, but that a miracle was performed by Heaven on his behalf. 'Ulla said: — others state, Rabbah b. Bar Hanah said in R. Johanan's name — That is when they hiss at him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Otherwise it is not to be assumed that they were meant to kill him. ');">²¹</span> R. Abba b. Kahana said: One [of them] once fell in the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i>, and a Nabatean<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi, a Jew from Nabatea. ');">²²</span> arose and killed it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This was on a Sabbath. ');">²³</span>

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