Spirits Without Bodies and the Giant Reem at the Ark

"And of every living thing, of all flesh" (Genesis 6:19). Even the spirits entered the ark, as it is said, "and of every living thing" - those who were created with souls but for whom no bodies were created. Rabbi Judah says: the reem [a giant wild ox] did not enter the ark, but its young entered. Rabbi Nehemiah says: neither it nor its young, but rather Noah tied it to the ark, and it plowed furrows like the distance from Tiberias to Susita. This is what is written, "Can you bind the reem with its rope in the furrow? Will it harrow the valleys after you?" (Job 39:10). In the days of Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba, one young reem came up into the Land of Israel and left no tree standing without uprooting it. They proclaimed a fast and Rabbi Hiyya prayed, and its mother bellowed from the wilderness, and it went down at her voice.