Started doing daf yomi last week. Sunday’s daf (Bekhorot 8) is about animal procreation…opening with dulfanin aka mermaids! (Or maybe dolphins).
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!["And so wrote Rabbi Eleazar of Worms, in these words: Most of the dead [keep thinking] the same thought that they had in the moment the soul left the body"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2dog7qrhd4e6ddscgleicun/bafkreibwtzphtc7onhycerxyl4r4sugygiqecnhvo2tp3mtizagotor64y)
![Another interpretation, “seek peace and pursue it” – there was once an incident involving Rabbi Meir, who was sitting and lecturing…. *And a certain woman came to hear his lecture. That woman went home. It was Shabbat eve, and she found that her candle had already become extinguished. Her husband asked her: ‘Where have you been until now?’ She said to him: ‘I was listening to Rabbi Meir lecture.’ That man was a scoffer, and he said to her: ‘I swear, you will not enter my house until you go and spit in Rabbi Meir’s face.’ She left his house. Elijah, of blessed memory, appeared to Rabbi Meir, and said to him: ‘Because of you, that woman has left her house.’ Elijah, of blessed memory, informed him how the incident transpired. What did Rabbi Meir do? He went and sat in the great study hall. That woman came there to pray and he saw her. He pretended to have a sore [in his eye] and said: ‘Does anyone know how to cure an eye with a charm?’ That woman said to him: ‘I have come to cure by using charms.’ She spat in his face. *That was the cure for an eye sore. He said to her: ‘Say to your husband: I have spat in Rabbi Meir’s face.’ He said to her [further]: ‘Go and reconcile with your husband.’ See how great the power of peace is.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2dog7qrhd4e6ddscgleicun/bafkreifubmcn4a2wbaeztkvqt5kpf3skyqok2derhnybljcpjobgkypplu)
