Зехарья 6:12 Ссылки в Талмуде: Jerusalem Talmud Berakhot

Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, his name is Ẓemaḥ. Rebbi Yudan, the son of Rebbi Aivu, said his name is Menaḥem²⁰³The parallel to the entire paragraph is in Midrash Ekha rabbati 1(57). The verse of R. Joshua ben Levi is Zach. 6:12: “Behold, a man of the name of Ẓemaḥ, he will sprout from below and build the Eternal’s temple.” The verse of Rebbi Yudan is Threni 1:16: “Behold, far from me is Menaḥem who will restore my spirit.”. Ḥanina the son of Rebbi Abbahu said: they have no disagreement since the numerical value of one is the numerical value of the other: Ẓemaḥ is equal to Menaḥem²⁰⁴138. צ̇מ̇ח̇ = 90+40+8, מ̇נ̇ח̇ם̇ = 40+50+8+40.. Since Rebbi Yudan the son of Rebbi Aivu said, it happened to a Jew who was plowing in the valley of Arbel²⁰⁵This is the reading of the Rome ms. and Genizah fragments; the valley of Arbel is West of Tiberias. The place name is missing in the Leyden ms. and the Venice print. that his ox was bellowing. An Arab passed by and heard the bellowing of the ox. He said to him: Jew, Jew, unharness your ox, unharness your plow²⁰⁶קנקן usually means a pitcher or a bottle, from late Latin canna “small vessel”. However, this קנקן appears several times also in the Babli (noted in the Rabbinic dictionary ‘Arukh under קנקן ב׳) and seems to mean the central peg by which the motion of the plow is controlled; possibly from old Persian gan, “plow”. because the Temple was destroyed. The ox bellowed a second time. He said: Jew, Jew, harness your ox, fix your plow because King Messiah has been born. He said to him: What is his name? Menaḥem. He said to him: What is his father’s name? Ḥizqiah. He said to him: Where is he? He said to him: At the king’s palace in Bethlehem in Judea. He went and sold his ox and plow and made himself a vendor of baby linens. He went to towns and left towns until he came to that town. All the women bought from him but the mother of Menaḥem did not buy. He heard the women say: Menaḥem’s mother, Menaḥem’s mother, come and buy for your son! She said: I would rather strangle him like a hater of Israel because he was born on the day the Temple was destroyed. He said to her: I like him, because for him it was destroyed and for him it will be rebuilt. She said to him, I have no money. He said to her, that does not bother me, come and buy for him! If you have nothing with you today, I shall return another day and I will take it then. After some time he went up to that town and said to her: How is your baby doing? She said to him: After you had seen me there came storms and raised him and tore him from my hands²⁰⁷The Zohar (II, 7b–8b) improves on the story and asserts that the Messiah is living in Paradise at a place known as “bird’s nest”.. Rebbi Abun said: We do not need to learn from that Arab, is it not a full verse (Is. 10:35): “The Lebanon will fall through a noble one”?²⁰⁸The use of Lebanon as a figure of speech for the Temple can be traced to the interpretation of Deut. 3:25, where Moses begs to see “this good mountain and the Lebanon.” Since God later showed Moses all he wanted to see, but nothing North of the city of Dan, it follows that “Lebanon” here cannot mean the mountain range. The verse here was used by Rabban Joḥanan ben Zakkai to predict to Vespasian that he would be emperor before he could conquer Jerusalem because the Temple could fall only to a noble one (Ekha rabbati 1(32)). In Isaiah, the verse is the introduction to a description of Messianic times. And the next verse is (11:1) “A sprout will come from the stem of Jesse.”