Talmud su Michea 7:6

R. Simeon b. Joḥai said: As for the seven-year cycle in which the son of David will come, in the first year will be fulfilled And I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city;¹Amos 4, 7. There will be famine in one place and plenty in another. in the second, the arrows of hunger will be sent forth;²i.e. not actual famine, but the first signs of it, nobody being completely satisfied. in the third there will be a severe famine in the course of which men, women and children will die, pious men and miracle workers become scarce, and the Torah will be forgotten by its students;³Through lack of food. in the fourth, there will be partial plenty;⁴lit. ‘plenty and no plenty’. in the fifth, great plenty when men will eat, drink and rejoice and the Torah will be restored to its disciples;⁵‘And the Torah’, etc., is added by GRA. in the sixth [there will be heard heavenly] sounds;⁶Either heavenly voices announcing the advent of the Messiah or the blasts of the great shofar; cf. Isa. 27, 13. in the seventh, wars [will be waged]; and at the expiration of the septennate the son of David will come.⁷Cf. Sanh. 97a (Sonc. ed., pp. 654f.) for this and the following passages; also Midrash to Song of Songs 2, 13 (Sonc. ed., p. 126).
Rabban Gamaliel said: In the generation when the son of David comes, the house of assembly⁸Where scholars gather. will be a brothel, Galilee will be in ruins, and the inhabitants of Gablan⁹The Jews living along the borders of the Land of Israel. Gablan is to be read for Galil, ‘Galilee’, as in Sanh., loc. cit. (Sonc. ed., p. 655, n. 4). will wander about [begging] from city to city without experiencing pity; the wisdom of scribes will be in disfavour and God-fearing men despised, the leaders of the people¹⁰lit. ‘the face of the generation’. will be dog-faced;¹¹Shameless. truth will be lacking, and he that departs from evil will be regarded as demented.
R. Nehorai said: In the generation when the son of David comes, young men will insult the old, the aged will stand up before youth,¹²To do them honour. a daughter will rise up against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,¹³Cf. Micah 7, 6. and a son will not be abashed in his father’s¹⁴So GRA and H. V has ‘mother’s’. presence.
R. Nehemiah said: In the generation when the son of David comes, impudence will increase, esteem will be perverted,¹⁵No one will esteem another. Or, even the nobility and most honoured will degenerate. the vine will yield its fruit yet wine will be dear,¹⁶Drunkenness will increase so that in spite of the abundant yield there will be a scarcity. and the government will be converted to heresy¹⁷Heb. minuth. By ‘the kingdom’ the Roman Empire is meant, and the statement is a remarkable forecast by R. Nehemiah (100 C.E.) of the conversion of Rome to Christianity under Constantine the Great in 313 C.E. Cf. however, Herford, Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, pp. 207ff., Sanh., loc. cit. (Sonc. ed., p. 656, n. 4). with none to reprove.

MISHNAH: ²⁶⁷The Mishnah in the Babli is quite different in this first paragraph; it is close to the baraita/Tosephta quoted in the Halakhah as alternative version. The mention of Rebbi and R. Phineas ben Yaïr characterizes the entire Mishnah as a late addition. When Rabban Joḥanan ben Zakkai died, the splendor of wisdom disappeared. When the elder Rabban Gamliel²⁶⁸Hillel’s grandson, whom the Apostle Paul claimed as his teacher. died, the honor of Torah disappeared, purity and self-discipline died. When Ismael ben Phiabi²⁶⁹The last High Priest of good character. died, the splendor of priesthood died. When Rebbi died, meekness and fear of sin died. When Rebbi Meїr died, the inventors of parables disappeared. When Rebbi Aqiba died, the preachers²⁷⁰It may be that “interpreters of biblical verses” is meant. R. Aqiba is the last authority who systematically derived laws directly from an interpretation of verses. disappeared. When Ben Azai died, the perseverers²⁷¹Who study day and night. disappeared. When Ben Zoma died, the students²⁷²It is difficult to know what this means. In the Babli, “the preachers disappeared”. Ben Zoma is known for his gnostic studies. disappeared. When Rebbi Joshua died, good disappeared from the world²⁷³Had he lived, he probably could have averted the uprising of Bar Kochba. When Rebbi Eleazar ben Azariah died, wealth disappeared from the Sages. When Rabban Gamliel died²⁷⁴In many independent Mishnah mss. (and the following Tosephta) “Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel”; missing in the Babli. The Yerushalmi reading is preferable since Rabban Gamliel died just before the Bar Kochba revolt but his son died at the beginning of the Severan dynasty which was a good time for the Jewish population of Palestine., locusts came and troubles increased. When Rebbi Ḥanina ben Dosa and Yose the small²⁷⁵קיטונתה is usually derived from Greek κοιτών “bedroom”, Syriac קיטונא “room”. In Babli and independent Mishnah he is called קטונתא “the little one”, because, according to some mss., he was the most insignificant of the pious. It is more than likely that the Yerushalmi קיטונתה is identical with קטונתא except for the addition of a stray י. This is accepted in the translation. Other Babli mss. and early medieval authors also call him “the concentrate of piety”. died, piety disappeared. Why was he called Yose of the small room? For he was the concentrate of pious men. Rebbi Phineas ben Yaїr says, after the Temple was destroyed, fellows and freeborn were ashamed and covered their heads, people of [good] deeds shrivelled, strong-armed people and informers became dominant, nobody explains, nobody desires and nobody asks. On whom can we rely? On our Father in Heaven. The great Rebbi Eliezer²⁷⁶R. Eliezer ben Hyrkanos. says, from the day the Temple was destroyed, the Sages were diminished to be like scribes, the scribes like community servants, the community servants like common people; the common people go and degenerate, nobody desires and nobody asks. On whom can we rely? On our Father in Heaven.
On the heels of the Messiah impertinence will grow, inflation will lead, the vine will give its fruit but the wine will be expensive, the government will turn heretic²⁷⁷This Mishnah expected the Messiah to appear when the Roman state turned Christian., nobody rebukes, the assembly hall will be a brothel, Galilee will be destroyed and Gaulanitis²⁷⁸Which was densely settled by Jews in talmudic times, cf. Ševi‘it 6:1, Notes 31–51. become deserted, frontier dwellers will move from city to city and nobody will have mercy on them, the wisdom of scholars will be defective, those who fear sin will be despised, truth will be absent, young men will insult Elders, Elders will stand before the young, “a son will abuse his father, a daughter rebel against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, the enemies of a person are his family”²⁷⁹Micah 7:6., the generation is dog-faced, a son is not ashamed before his father. What do we have to rely on? Our Father in Heaven.