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One of the captives said to the other: The camel that is walking ahead of us is blind in one of its eyes and laden with two wineskins, one filled with wine and one filled with oil. And two people are driving the camel, one a Jew and one a non-Jew. The captor said to them: Stiff-necked people, from
They said to him: We know that the camel is blind from the grass that is before it, as from the grass on the side that it sees, it eats, and from the grass on the side that it does not see, it does not eat, i.e., it eats grass from only one side. And we know that it is laden with two wineskins,
The captor pursued the camel and its drivers to determine whether the statements of the captives were accurate, and found that the reality was in accordance with their statements. He came and respectfully kissed them on their head, and brought them to their house and prepared a great feast for them.
§ The Talmud returns to its interpretation of verses in Lamentations: “She cries [bakho tivke] at night” (Lamentations 1:2). These two cries, indicated by the use of a compound verb, why are they written? Rabba says that R' Yoḥanan says: One is a cry over the destruction of the First Temple, and on
Rabba says that R' Yoḥanan says: That day that they heard the spies’ report was the evening of the 9th of Av. God said to the Jewish people: You cried an unwarranted cry, and so I will establish for you a reason to cry for generations.