Rabbi Akiba doesn't think that Rabbi Joshua is right (nor does the Gemara) since in the Gemara people have to deal with the evidence presented by those they disagree with, this text expounds Rabbi Akiba's interpretation of the verse Rabbi Joshua cites. He supports this with a verse about sowing seeds in the morning and in the evening because you don't know how each of them will turn out. In this sugya (section), it says that a baraita (text that didn't make it into the Mishnah) says that according to Rabbi Joshua actually you need to keep having kids even after you've had some, and if your wife dies you should marry again and have more into your old age. This text is commenting on a mishnah that says you no longer have to fulfill the commandment of "be fruitful and multiply" if you already have a kid (or possibly a boy and a girl). The Gemara inquires: What is it that is called a bad death? Rav Naḥman said: Diphtheria.Ĭontext: This is from the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Yevamot, which is about the custom of "yibbum", where a widow marries her brother-in-law in order to have a kid accorded to her husband's name. Rav Ḥama bar Abba said, and some say it was Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Avin: They all died a bad death. With regard to the twelve thousand pairs of Rabbi Akiva’s students, the Gemara adds: It is taught that all of them died in the period from Passover until Shavuot. Although Rabbi Akiva’s earlier students did not survive, his later disciples were able to transmit the Torah to future generations. And these are the very ones who upheld the study of Torah at that time. This second group of disciples consisted of Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Yehuda, Rabbi Yosei, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, and Rabbi Elazar ben Shamua. They said by way of example that Rabbi Akiva had twelve thousand pairs of students in an area of land that stretched from Gevat to Antipatris in Judea, and they all died in one period of time, because they did not treat each other with respect.Īnd the world was desolate of Torah until Rabbi Akiva came to our Rabbis in the South and taught his Torah to them. Rabbi Akiva says that the verse should be understood as follows: If one studied Torah in his youth he should study more Torah in his old age if he had students in his youth he should have additional students in his old age, as it is stated: “In the morning sow your seed, etc.”
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