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For one day R. Jesse mockingly repeated R. Simeon’s words, “An egg of trath1The primordial Yod. which issues from a bird which abides in fire and bursts forth on four sides; two go forth from there, one is depressed and one overflows into a great sea”.’ R. Abba said to him: ‘You have turned sacred into profane before R. Simeon.’ Said R. Simeon: ‘Before the egg breaks open, you shall depart from this world; and so it came to pass in the Chamber of R. Simeon.1v. Zohar, Numbers, 144a.
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We have learnt that in the days of R. Simeon one man used to say to another: Open thy mouth that thy words may spread light.