An apostate led the king to the synagogue when the people were reading the verse in Deut., “How can one pursue a thousand and two ten thousand?" He told the King that the Jews were boasting that one could kill ten thousand. The king, enraged, called the teacher to explain the meaning. The latter said this referred to those who came out of Egypt. The king then called the wise men and the elders and ordered them as the descendants to prove the truth of the statement. He gave them a year, after which they would either be killed or driven out of the country. After six months of fasting and weeping, a man came and offered to go to the Children of Moses beyond the river Sambatyon and bring one of them who would prove it. They gave them money and he travelled five months and crossed the river on the Sabbath. The people there condemned him to death for breaking the Sabbath; he, however, showed them the letter which he had brought and they then sent a young girl with him, and within one day they were back in the city, thus in time. They told the king they were ready to prove the case and asked him to bring out the army. He gathered all the people in the field and the young girl, dressed as a
man met him. She asked the king to make two heavy millstones, from a big mountain nearby. They were made and weighed 600 tons. She uttered the Ineffable Name of God, the millstones rose on the air and ground the whole army to dust. When the king saw this, he said, “If this can merely be done by word of mouth, how much greater the power when done by hand?” He acknowledged the truth and the Jews rejoiced, after which the girl returned to her people.