Honi Ha-Meagel Slept Seventy Years and Woke to a World That Forgot Him

Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 422

Curated by Arthur·Told by Maggid·March 24, 2026

422. Sleep for Seventy Years.

Taanit, f.ioa,2oa&23a.

J. Taanit, III, 9.

Meg. Taanit, ch. 12.

Mishna Taanit, f. 19 a,

23 a.

Tanh. Exod. KiTabo § 4.

Tanh. B. Exod. Vaera § 22.

Yalk. § 188.

Zacuto, Yuhasin, pp. 15, 63.

Yalk. Sip. II, p. 66 — 67.

Maase Buch Nos. 52, 53.

Helvicus, Historien, I, ch. 26, p. 116; II, ch. 21, p. 65.

Eisenmenger, I, p. 30 f.

Tendlau, Sagen3, Nos.

Themes

Repentance Adam Eve Rain Prayer Exile

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