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the king’s silk garments. They tied two cedar trees together with a rope, and tied one of his legs to one cedar and one of his legs to the other cedar, and they released the rope until his head split open. Each tree went back and stood in its place and bar Haddaya split and fell completely split in
The Talmud relates a story with regard to a Sage who interpreted dreams, R' Yishmael. Ben Dama, son of R' Yishmael’s sister, asked his uncle, R' Yishmael: I saw in a dream that my two cheeks fell off. What does my dream mean? R' Yishmael said to him: Two Roman battalions spoke ill of you, and they
Similarly, the Talmud relates: Bar Kappara said to R' Yehuda HaNasi: I saw in a dream that my nose fell off. What does my dream mean? He said to him: This is an allusion that anger [ḥaron af] that had been directed against you has been removed from you. Bar Kappara said to him: I saw in a dream t
The Talmud relates a different case of dream interpretation: A certain heretic said to R' Yishmael: I saw in my dream that I was irrigating olives with olive oil. What is the interpretation of my dream? He said to him: It is a sign that you had sex with your mother, as oil comes from the olive, a
He said to him: I saw myself peeling eggs. He said to him: You stripped dead people, because an egg is eaten at the meal of comfort after burying the dead. The same heretic said to him: Everything you have interpreted is true, with the exception of this one, the last interpretation, which is not t