Rabbi Chinay rose and said, until now the Holy Luminary has taken care of us. Now is the time to strive to honor him. Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Aba rose and took him from his place to a bed fashioned as a ladder to raise him onto his bed. Whoever saw the confusion of the companions! The entire house emitted good scents. They raised him to his bed, and only Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Aba ministered to him.
Bullies and shield bearers came from the village of Tzipori, who wanted to have him buried there and came to take him by force. The people of Meron in their masses drove them away and yelled at them, because they did not want him to be buried there but in Meron. After the bed left the house, it rose in the air with fire blazing before it. They heard a divine voice: enter, come, and gather to the feast of Rabbi Shimon. “He that walks in his uprightness, shall enter in peace to them that rest in their graves” (Yeshayahu 57:2).