Study Avodah Zarah folio 18B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
And who can say that this is the case, that I will be saved by this utterance? R' Meir said to him: You will now see. There were these carnivorous dogs that would devour people; R' Meir took a clod of earth, threw it at them, and when they came to devour him, he said: God of Meir answer me! The do
Ultimately the matter was heard in the king’s court, and the guard, who was brought and taken to be hanged, said: God of Meir answer me! They then lowered him down, as they were unable to hang him. They said to him: What is this? He said to them: This was the incident that occurred, and he proceed
They then went and engraved the image of R' Meir at the entrance of Rome where it would be seen by everyone, and they said: Anyone who sees a man with this face should bring him here. One day, Romans saw R' Meir and ran after him, and he ran away from them and entered a brothel to hide. Some say h
R' Meir arose, fled, and arrived in Babylonia. The Talmud notes: There are those who say that he fled because of this incident, and there are those who say that he fled due to embarrassment from the incident involving his wife Berurya.
§ A baraita states: With regard to one who goes to stadiums [le’itztadinin] where people are killed in contests with gladiators or beasts, or to a camp of besiegers [ulkharkom] where different forms of entertainment are provided for the besieging army, and he sees there the acts of the diviners and