Talmud su Salmi 140:78

Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, he who is about to pray has to sit down twice. Once before he prays and once after he prays. Before he prays, (Ps. 84:5) “Hail to those who sit in Your house.” Once after he prays, (Ps. 140:14) “But the righteous will thank Your name, the upright ones will sit before You.²⁵Under the influence of the tradition given in the next paragraph, the parallel of the Babli (32b) requires in the name of R. Joshua ben Levi that one sit in the synagogue one hour each before and after prayer. “One hour” probably means “some time.” The argument given here is that in Ps. 84 there is no qualification for those in God’s house, but in Ps. 140 this is restricted to the righteous, those who have fulfilled their obligation in praying.”

HALAKHAH: “The House of Hillel say, we heard only,” etc. ²³A similar baraita is quoted in the Babli, 116b. The House of Shammai said to them: Is there not harvest the entire year? How is that? At the end of barley harvest starts wheat harvest. At the end of wheat harvest starts grape harvest. At the end of grape harvest starts olive harvest. That means, there is some harvest the year round. They accepted this argument. And why the grain harvest? Rebbi Mana said, because there accidents are frequent, for the sun only hits a person’s head at grain harvest time. That is what is written²⁴2K.:18–20. He diagnoses the illness of the Sunamite’s child as a sun stroke. This is accepted by most modern commentators.: “The child grew and some day it went to his father, to the harvesters. He said to his father, ‘my head, my head’; who said to the servant, ‘carry him to his mother’. He carried him and brought him to his mother where he sat on her knees until noontime, when he died.” But the rabbis say, because snakes are abundant. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun said²⁵Ps. 140:8. Usually, one would translate: “On the day of weaponry;” cf. Note 27., “You shielded my head at the day of kissing,” at the day summer and winter are kissing²⁶There are no other sources in talmudic literature that would declare the autumn equinox a dangerous day.. Another explanation: “At the day of weaponry,” that is Gog’s weaponry²⁷Ez. 39, explained as prologue to the appearance of the Messiah, a descendant of David.. Another explanation, on a day when two worlds kiss one another, when this world leaves and the future world enters²⁸The day of death..

The snake has six names: [Nahash], Saraf, Tanin, Tzifoni, Efeh, and Akhshuv.