The Sons of Rabbi Chiya and the End of the Exilarchate

Gaster, Exempla of the Rabbis No. 297 (1924); Sanhedrin 38a

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b. The sons of Rabbi Hiya when drunk, said to Rabbi Jehuda Hanassi, that the "Son of David" would come after the two princely houses in Babylon and Palestine had come to an end and He would be in their stead.

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