away from them, as it is said (Exod. xxxiii. 6), “And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.”  Resh Lakish says, “The Holy One—­blessed be He!—­will, in the future, return them to us; for it is said (Isa. xxxv. 10), ’The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads,’ i.e., the joy they had in days of yore, upon their heads.”

Shabbath, fol. 88, col. 1.

Let no one venture out alone at night-time on Wednesdays and Saturdays, for Agrath, the daughter of Machloth, roams about accompanied by eighteen myriads of evil genii, each one of which has power to destroy.

P’sachim, fol. 112, col. 2.

It is related of Rabbi Elazar ben Charsom that his mother made him a shirt which cost two myriads of manahs, but his fellow-priests would not allow him to wear it, because he appeared in it as though he were naked.

Yoma, fol. 35, col. 2.

He who has not seen the double gallery of the Synagogue in Alexandria of Egypt, has not seen the glory of Israel....  There were seventy-one seats arranged in it according to the number of the seventy-one members of the greater Sanhedrin, each seat of no less value than twenty-one myriads of golden talents.  A wooden pulpit was in the centre, upon which stood the reader holding a Sudarium (a kind of flag) in his hand, which he waved when the vast congregation were required to say Amen at the end of any benediction, which, of course, it was impossible for all to hear in so stupendous a synagogue.  The congregation did not sit promiscuously, but in guilds; goldsmiths apart, silversmiths apart, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, embroiderers, weavers, etc., all apart from each other.  When a poor craftsman came in, he took his seat among the people of his guild, who maintained him till he found employment.  Abaii says all this immense population was massacred by Alexander of Macedon.  Why were they thus punished?  Because they transgressed the Scripture, which says (Deut. xvii. 16), “Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”

Succah, fol. 51, col. 2.

The Rabbis teach that during a prosperous year in the land of Israel, a place sown with a measure of seed produces five myriad cors (a cor being equal to thirty measures).

Kethuboth, fol. 112, col. 1.

Rav Ulla was once asked, “To what extent is one bound to honor his father and mother?” To which he replied, “See what a Gentile of Askelon once did, Dammah ben Nethina by name.  The sages one day required goods to the value of sixty myriads, for which they were ready to pay the price, but the key of the store-room happened to be under the pillow of his father, who was fast asleep, and Dammah would not disturb him.”  Rabbi Eliezer was once asked the same question, and he gave the same answer, adding an interesting fact to the illustration:  “The sages were seeking after precious stones