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ומאין היו משיאין משואות מהר המשחה לסרטבא ומסרטבא לגרופינא ומגרופינא לחוורן ומחוורן לבית בלתין ומבית בלתין לא זזו משם אלא מוליך ומביא ומעלה ומוריד עד שהיה רואה כל הגולה לפניו כמדורת האש:

WHENCE DID THEY CARRY THE [CHAIN OF] BEACONS? FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES [IN JERUSALEM] TO SARTABA, AND FROM SARTABA TO GROFINA, AND FROM GROFINA TO HAURAN, AND FROM HAURAN TO BETH BALTIN.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [There is no general agreement about the identification of these places. Obermeyer (p. 17ff) locates them as follows: Sartaba == Karn Sartaba, five km from the western bank of the Jordan; Grofina (or 'Agrufina, v. D.S.) 'Arafun, a hill situated among the Gilead range of mountains; Hauran south of Damascus, cf. Ezek. XLVII, 18. Beth Baltin == Beiram (v. infra) some miles N.W. of Pumbeditha. For other views, v. Horowitz Palestine, p. 125].');">¹⁸</span> THE ONE ON BETH BALTIN DID NOT BUDGE FROM THERE BUT WENT ON WAVING TO AND FRO AND UP AND DOWN UNTIL HE SAW THE WHOLE OF THE DIASPORA<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the district of Pumbeditha. V. GEMARA: [Rashi omits 'the whole of'.]');">¹⁹</span> BEFORE HIM LIKE ONE BONFIRE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because, as explained infra in the Gemara, the inhabitants on seeing the beacon fire used to light torches.');">²⁰</span>

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