R. Shimeon b. Yob ai prevented tribulations overtaking the world and therefore no rainbows appeared to warn it of calamity. The prophet Elijah and R. Joshua b. Levi met him and he refused to see R. Joshua, because a rainbow
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had been seen in the latter’s lifetime and he had been unable to avert the impending calamity. Many other incidents connected with R. Shimeon ben Yokai’s self-consciousness are mentioned; also how he once said to a valley, “Be full of gold” and the valley filled.
205. R. Shimeon b. Yob ai prevented tribulations overtaking the world and therefore no rainbows appeared to warn it of calamity. The prophet Elijah and R. Joshua b. Levi met him and he refused to see R. Joshua, because a rainbow
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had been seen in the latter’s lifetime and he had been unable to avert the impending calamity. Many other incidents connected with R. Shimeon ben Yokai’s self-consciousness are mentioned; also how he once said to a valley, “Be full of gold” and the valley filled.
