i find the gnat and titus story funny The Gemara resumes its story about Titus. The Divine Voice continued: Go up on dry land and make war with it. He went up on dry land, and a gnat came, entered his nostril, and picked at his brain for seven years. Titus suffered greatly from this until one day he passed by the gate of a blacksmith’s shop. The gnat heard the sound of a hammer and was silent and still. Titus said: I see that there is a remedy for my pain. Every day they would bring a blacksmith who hammered before him. He would give four dinars as payment to a gentile blacksmith, and to a Jew he would simply say: It is enough for you that you see your enemy in so much pain. He did this for thirty days and it was effective until then. From that point forward, since the gnat became accustomed to the hammering, it became accustomed to it, and once again it began to pick away at Titus’s brain. It is taught in a baraita that Rabbi Pineḥas ben Arova said: I was at that time among the noblemen of Rome, and when Titus died they split open his head and found that the gnat had grown to the size of a sparrow weighing two sela. It was taught in another baraita: It was like a one-year-old pigeon weighing two litra. Abaye said: We have a tradition that its mouth was made of copper and its claws were fashioned of iron. When Titus was dying, he said to his attendants: Burn that man, i.e., me, and scatter his ashes across the seven seas, so that the God of the Jews should not find me and stand me for judgment.
@klebermagno9 ай бұрын
I translated these text with Google translate and ChatGPT help and I did found necromante in original Hebraic text. And even don’t make sense in the general context Onkelos ask to 3 necromante…
@williammosley80265 ай бұрын
Continue please
@justinpridham79194 жыл бұрын
Cooked in boiling semen?! Who has the misfortune of preparing that meal?
@MagicJesus4 жыл бұрын
Great video, Jacob. But, Titus is apparently the only historical character who could be "the son of man coming on the clouds". "Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
@JonnyOxtricks4 жыл бұрын
Where do you draw this conclusion from? Not asking aggressively, would just love to know how you came to that?
@conkergemini64897 ай бұрын
Josephus does mention someone appearing in the clouds of heaven. Including later Roman historians on the siege of Jerusalem. Maybe this was truly the first time that one million people died on a single war. Also a cometh was seen, a sword, Jewish leaders fighting among themselves. They destroyed their own food reserves, also very important we are not even counting the deaths of the other sieges around Canaan so the number of casualties on the war can reach a million.