It is thus,
for instance, Rav Chisda counsels his daughters: "Be ye modest
before your husbands and do not even eat before them. Eat not
vegetables or dates in the evening, and touch not strong drink."
(_Shabbath_, fol. 140, col. 2.)
Once upon a time a demon in the shape of a seven-headed dragon came
forth against Rav Acha and threatened to harm him, but the Rabbi threw
himself on his knees, and every time he fell down to pray he knocked off
one of these heads, and thus eventually killed the dragon.
_Kiddushin_, fol. 29, col. 2.
On the seventh of the month Adar, Moses died, and on that day the manna
ceased to come down from heaven.
Ibid., fol. 38, col. 1.
The seventh of Adar is still, and has long been, kept sacred as
the day of the death of Moses our Rabbi--peace be with him!--and
that on the authority of T.B. Kiddushin (as quoted above), and
Soteh, fol. 10, col. 2; but Josephus (Book iv. chap. 8, sec. 49)
most distinctly affirms that Moses died "on the first day of the
month," and the Midrash on Esther may be quoted in corroboration
of his statement. The probability is that the Talmud is right on
this matter, but it is altogether wrong in connecting with this
event the stoppage of the manna (see Josh.
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