Every source cited by Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel [III]
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Summary: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel [III] cites Shabbat 13b. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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and served Torah scholars extensively, why did he die at half his days? Where is the length of days promised him in the verse? No one would respond to her astonishment at all. Eliyahu said: One time I was a guest in her house, and she was relating that entire event with regard to the death of her husband. And I said to her: My daughter, during the period of your menstruation, how did he act toward you? She said to me: Heaven forbid, he did not touch me even with his little finger. And I asked her: In the days of your white garments, after the menstrual flow ended, and you were just counting clean days, how did he act toward you then? She said to me: He ate with me, and drank with me, and slept with me with bodily contact and, however, it did not enter his mind about something else, i.e., conjugal relations. And I said to her: Blessed is the Omnipresent who killed him for this sin, as you…
Summary: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel [III] cites Sotah 49b. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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are increasingly diminished, and none ask and none seek. Upon whom is there to rely? Only upon our Father in Heaven. He also said: In the times of the approach of the Messiah, impudence will increase and high costs will pile up. Although the vine shall bring forth its fruit, wine will nevertheless be expensive. And the monarchy shall turn to heresy, and there will be no one to give reproof about this. The meeting place of the Sages will become a place of promiscuity, and the Galilee shall be destroyed, and the Gavlan will be desolate, and the men of the border shall go round from city to city to seek charity, but they will find no mercy. And the wisdom of scribes will putrefy, and people who fear sin will be held in disgust, and the truth will be absent. The youth will shame the face of elders, elders will stand before minors. Normal family relations will be ruined: A son will disgrace a…
Summary: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel [III] cites Bava Metzia 84b. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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§ After this digression, the Gemara returns to the story of Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon. And although his flesh did not putrefy, even so Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, still did not rely on his own opinion, as he was worried that he may have erred in one of his decisions. He accepted afflictions upon himself as atonement for his possible sins. At night his attendants would spread out sixty felt bed coverings for him. In the morning, despite the bed coverings, they would remove sixty basins of blood and pus from underneath him. The following day, i.e., every morning, his wife would prepare for him sixty types of relish [ lifda ] made from figs, and he would eat them and become healthy. His wife, concerned for his health, would not allow him to go to the study hall, so that the Rabbis would not push him beyond his limits. In the evening, he would say to his pains: My brothers and…
Summary: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel [III] cites Deuteronomy ד:ז. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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For what great nation is there that has a god so close at hand as is the E TERNAL our God whenever we call?
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Summary: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel [III] cites Proverbs יד:כד. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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The ornament of the wise is their wealth; The stupidity of dullards is stupidity.
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Summary: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel [III] cites Zechariah ח. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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The word of G OD of Hosts came [to me]: Thus said G OD of Hosts: I am very jealous for Zion, I am fiercely jealous for her. Thus said G OD : I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell in Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be called the City of Faithfulness, and the mount of G OD of Hosts the Holy Mount. Thus said G OD of Hosts: There shall yet be elderly men and women in the squares of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age. And the squares of the city shall be crowded with boys and girls playing in the squares. Thus said G OD of Hosts: Though it will seem impossible to the remnant of this people in those days, shall it also be impossible to Me?—declares G OD of Hosts. Thus said G OD of Hosts: I will rescue My people from the lands of the east and from the lands of the west, and I will bring them home to dwell in Jerusalem. They shall be My people, and I will be their God—in…
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Summary: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel [III] cites פרקי אבות פרק א' משניות טז. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
