Adam Spoke Aramaic and Grieved for Rabbi Akiva

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 41:1

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Rav Yehudah said in the name of Rav: The first Adam spoke in the Aramaic tongue, as it is said (Psalms 139:17), "How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God." And this accords with what Resh Lakish said: What is the meaning of what is written, "This is the book of the generations of Adam"? It teaches that the Holy One, blessed be He, showed the first Adam generation after generation and its expounders, and so forth. When he reached the generation of Rabbi Akiva, he rejoiced in his Torah and was grieved by his death, as it is said, "How precious to me are Your thoughts [re'echa], O God."

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