Study Rosh Hashanah folio 23B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
This is the town called Biram.
§ The Mishnah taught: He would wave the torch back and forth and up and down, until he would see the entire Diaspora before him alight like one large bonfire. The Talmud asks: What is the meaning in this context of the term Diaspora, which certainly cannot be referring to the entire Diaspora across
It is taught in a baraita that R' Shimon ben Elazar says: Torches were also lit at Ḥarim, and Kayar and Geder, and its neighboring places. There are those who say that the places added by R' Shimon ben Elazar are located between the places mentioned in the Mishnah, whereas there are those who say t
R' Yoḥanan said: Between each and every one of the stations there was a distance of 8 parasangs. The Talmud asks: How many parasangs are these in total? 32 parasangs. The Talmud further asks: Isn’t the distance from the Mount of Olives to Beit Baltin now much greater than 32 parasangs? Abaye said:
The Talmud provides a source for this claim. As it is written: “Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths” (Hosea 2:8). Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: It is derived from here, as it is written: “He has made my paths crooke