Babylonian Talmud

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blessed be He, will make seven canopies [chupas) for each upright, as it is written [Is. iv. 5]: "And then will the Lord create upon every dwelling of Mount Zion, and upon her places of assembly, a cloud and smoke by day, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night ; for over all the glory shall be a covering {chupa).'" Whence we deduce that the Holy One, blessed be He, will make a chiipa to each upright according to His dignity. But why smoke to a chupa? Said R. Hanina: Each one who looks with a bad eye upon the scholars in this world, his eyes will be filled with smoke in the world to come. And why fire (in \.\\Q chupa)! Said R. Hanina: Infer from this that each of the upright will be burned by the chupa of his neighbor. And woe to such a burn and such a shame ! {i.e., the neighbor's chupa is so beautiful and large that my chupa looks like a small hut against his). Similar to this is what is written [Num. xxvii. 20]: "And thou shalt put some of thy greatness upon him." But not all of it. The elders of that generation used to say: The appearance of Moses was like the sun, and the appearance of Joshua like the moon. Woe to such a burn! woe to such a shame! R. Hama b. Hanina said : Ten chupas were made by the Holy * Quomah means the height of a person, qummiuth means two heights. Leeser's translation cannot be used. 212 THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD. One, blessed be He, for Adam the first in paradise, as it is written [Ezek. xxviii. 13]: "In Eden the garden of God didst thou abide; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the chrysolite, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold." (From the word sardius, including the word gold, are ten differ- ent kinds.) Mar Zutra says: Eleven — as he counts all the pre- cious stones also. Said R. Johanan: The gold was less in value than all (as it is placed last). What is meant by the continuation of the same verse: " Thy tabrets and thy flutes," etc.? Said R. Jehudah in the name of Rabh : So said the Holy One, blessed be He, to Hiram the king of Tyre: When I created the world, and saw that thou wouldst rebel, deeming thyself a god, I there- fore created holes and flutes in men, in order that thou shouldst be known as human. And according to others He said: " I saw that thou wouldst rebel," etc. I have therefore punished Adam the first with death, so that it should be known that thou wast human. What mean the words, " upon her places of assembly" (Isaiah, in the above cited verse)? Said Rabba in the name of R. Johanan: Jerusalem in the world to come is not like Jerusalem of this world. In the latter every one who likes to enter does so, but in that of the world to come only those invited will enter. He said again in the name of said authority: In the world to come the upright will be named with the names of the Holy One, blessed be He, as it is written [Is. xliii. 7]: " Every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed; yea, whom I have made." Samuel b. Nahmeni said in the name of R. Johanan: The following three will be named with the name of the Holy One, blessed be He: the upr'ght^ as said above; the Messiah, as it is written [Jer. xxiii. 6] : " And this is his name whereby he shall be called — The Lord Our Righteousness"; and Jerusalem, as it is written [Ezek. xlviii. 35]: " And the name of that city shall be from that day, The Lord is there" {sJia^nali). Do not read shamah (there), but shmah (her name). R. Elazar said: In the future, holy will be said before the upright as now it is said before the Holy One, blessed be He, as it is written [Is. iv. 3] : " And it shall come to pass that who- ever is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy — every one that is written down unto life in Jerusalem." TRACT BABA BATHRA (LAST GATE). 213 He said again in the name of the same authority: The Holy One, blessed be He, will increase Jerusalem three parsas, as it is written [Zech. xiv. 10]: " And she herself shall be elevated, and be inhabited on her former site," which means that it will be increased to its former size. And whence do you know that the size of the former Jerusalem was three parsas ? Said Rabba : There was a certain old man who told me that he had seen the first Jerusalem, and the size thereof was three parsas. And lest one say that it would be difificult to ascend, therefore it is writ- ten [Is. Ix. 8]: "Who are these that are like a cloud," etc. Said R. Papa: Infer from this that the clouds are at a height of three parsas from the ground. R. Hanina b. Papa said: The Lord wanted to give a measure to Jerusalem, as it is written [Zech. ii. 6]: "To measure Jeru- salem." And the angels said before the Holy One, blessed be He: Lord of the Universe, there are many greafcities thou hast created in thy world, belonging to the nations, of which thou hast not determined their length and their breadth. For Jeru- salem, upon which thy name rests, where is thy Temple, and dwell the upright, thou dost determine a measure. [Ibid. 8] : " And he said unto him. Run, speak to this young man, saying, Without walls shall Jerusalem be inhabited, because of the multitude of men and cattle in her midst." Resh Lakish said : The Holy One, blessed be He, will add a Litsuy (probably a suburb) to Jerusalem a thousand times the area of one containing country seats and twelve hundred Ttrpliriis, a thousand towers and one hundred and sixty-nine thousand gardens, and each of all that is said above will be like Ziporias in her glory. And there is a Boraitha which states: R. Jose said: I have seen Ziporias in her glory, and there were one hundred and eighty thousand markets in which only spices for dishes were sold. It is written [Ezek. xli. 6]: "And the side chambers were three one over another, and thirty times." What does that mean ? Said R. Levi in the name of R. Papi, quoting R. Jehoshua of Skhui : If there were three Jerusalems, each of them had thirty chambers on the top; and if thirty Jerusalems, each of them had three chambers on the top. END OF FIRST PART OF TRACT BABA BATHRA AND OF VOL. V. (XIII.). 214 'i'HE BABYLONIAN TALMUD. APPENDIX TO MISHNA I, CHAP. III., PAGE 83. We deem it necessary to call the attention of the reader to the fact that the law of occupancy was chiefly taken from the ancient Roman law* about usucapio (occupancy), which dictates that each usucapio without titulius (claim) is not considered. The claims must be pro emptore (purchase) or pro donato (gift), pro legato, pro dote, ox pro herede (inheritance) ; and with usucapio, which is based upon inheritance, no other claim was necessary. The law applied even when it was known that the occupant