The death and leave-taking of R. Eliezar the Great. He foretold to every one the manner of his death as well as the martyrdom of R. Akiba. He used the parable of the seas being ink, the reeds pens and all men writers and yet their being unable to write down all that he had said. He taught R. Akiba how to plant gourds by word of mouth and how to make them disappear. He died whilst pronouncing the word: “clean.”