כ משמת יוסי בן יועזר איש צרידה ויוסי בן יהודה איש ירושלים בטלו האשכלות שנאמר (מיכה ז, א) אין אשכול לאכול בכורה אותה נפשי יוחנן כהן גדול העביר הודיית המעשר אף הוא בטל את המעוררין ואת הנוקפין
20 HE WAS AFTERWARDS RENAMED 'SON OF THE MURDERER'. — WHEN ADULTERERS MULTIPLIED THE CEREMONY OF THE BITTER WATER WAS DISCONTINUED AND IT WAS R. JOHANAN B. ZAKKAI WHO DISCONTINUED IT, AS IT IS SAID, I WILL NOT PUNISH YOUR DAUGHTERS WHEN THEY COMMIT WHOREDOM, NOR YOUR BRIDES WHEN THEY COMMIT ADULTERY, FOR THEY THEMSELVES ETC.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hos. IV, 14. ');"><sup>35</sup></span> WHEN JOSE B. JOEZER OF ZEREDAH AND JOSE B. JUDAH OF JERUSALEM DIED, THE GRAPE-CLUSTERS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Descriptive of Rabbis of exceptional learning. These two Rabbis flourished in the first half of the second cent. B.C.E. and were the first of the Zugoth or 'Pairs' of teachers who preserved and passed on the Torah-lore accumulated by the men of the Great Assembly. [Lauterbach. J.Z. (JQR VI, p. 32, n. 34) explains this to mean that with his death teachers ceased to act as a body, reporting only such teachings as represented the opinion of the whole group to which they belonged, but began to report rulings of individual teachers.] ');"><sup>36</sup></span> CEASED, AS IT IS SAID, THERE IS NO CLUSTER TO EAT; MY SOUL DESIRETH THE FIRST RIPE FIG.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Micah VII, 1. ');"><sup>37</sup></span> JOHANAN THE HIGH PRIEST<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' John Hyrcanus who reigned over Judea from 135 to 104 B.C.E. ');"><sup>38</sup></span> BROUGHT TO AN END THE CONFESSION MADE AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE TITHE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Deut. XXVI, 13f. ');"><sup>39</sup></span> HE ALSO ABOLISHED THE WAKERS AND THE KNOCKERS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' These terms are explained in the Gemara. ');"><sup>40</sup></span>