Related%20passage for Taanit 57:18

משנכנס אב ממעטין בשמחה כו' אמר רב יהודה בריה דרב שמואל בר שילת משמיה דרב כשם שמשנכנס אב ממעטין בשמחה כך משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה

The officer then mounted the roof and threw himself down and died. Now there was a tradition [amongst the Romans] that when a decree is made and one of their own [leaders] dies, then that decree is annulled.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They regard the death as a punishment for the evil decree (Rashi) .');">²²</span> Thereupon a Voice from Heaven was heard declaring, This high officer is destined to enter into the world to come. Our Rabbis have taught: When the First Temple was about to be destroyed bands upon bands of young priests with the keys of the Temple in their hands assembled and mounted the roof of the Temple and exclaimed, 'Master of the Universe, as we did not have the merit to be faithful treasurers these keys are handed back into Thy keeping'. They then threw the keys up towards heaven. And there emerged the figure of a hand and received the keys from them. Whereupon they jumped and fell into the fire. It is in allusion to them that the prophet Isaiah laments: The burden concerning the Valley of Vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the house tops, thou that art full of uproar, a tumultuous city, a joyous town? Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XXII, 1-2. rhe');">²³</span> Of the Holy One, blessed be He, also it is said, Kir shouting, and crying at the mount.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 5. is interpreted as **, God (Malter)');">²⁴</span> WITH THE BEGINNING OF AB REJOICINGS ARE CURTAILED. Rab Judah the son of R'Samuel B'Shilath said in the name of Rab: Just as with the beginning of Ab rejoicings are curtailed, so with the beginning of Adar rejoicings are increased.

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