The twofold invocation of Elijah, which betokens his intense earnestness, anagrammatically expressed, is echoed in the words of the bystanders, “The Lord He is the God, the Lord He is the God.”

“I dreamed,” said Bar Kappara one day to Rabbi (the Holy), “that I beheld two pigeons, and they flew away from me.”  “Thy dream is this,” replied Rabbi, “thou hast had two wives, and art separated from them both without a bill of divorcement.”

Ibid., fol. 56, col. 2.

The Rabbis teach concerning the two kidneys in man, that one counsels him to do good and the other to do evil; and it appears that the former is situated on the right side and the latter on the left.  Hence it is written (Eccl. x. 2), “A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart is at his left.”

Ibid., fol. 61, col. 1.

For two sins the common people perish:  they speak of the holy ark as a box and the synagogue as a resort for the ignorant vulgar.

Shabbath, fol. 32, col. 1.

On the self-same day when Jeroboam introduced the two golden calves, the one into Bethel and the other into Dan, a hut was erected in a part of Italy which was then subject to the Greeks.

Ibid., fol. 56, col. 2.

In the context where the above tradition occurs, which, as is obvious, relates to the founding of Rome, we meet with another on the same subject as follows:—­When Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh, the Angel Gabriel thrust a reed into the sea, stirring up therewith the sand and mud from the bottom.  This, gradually collecting, first shaped itself into an island and then expanded so as to unite itself with the continent.  And thus was the land created for the erection of the hut which should one day swell into the proportion of a proud imperial city.

If Israel kept only two Sabbaths, according to the strict requirement of the law, they would be freed at once from their compelled dispersion; for it is written (Isa. lvi. 4, 7), “Thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, Even them will I bring to my holy mountain.”

Shabbath, fol. 118, col. 2.

Adam had two faces; for it is said (Ps. cxxxix. 5), “Thou hast made me behind and before.”

Eiruvin, fol. 18, col. 1.

There is a notion among the Rabbis that Adam was possessed originally of a bisexual organization, and this conclusion they draw from Gen. i. 27, where it is said, “God created man in his own image; male-female created He them.”  These two natures, it was thought, lay side by side; according to some, the male on the right and the female on the left; according to others, back to back; while there were those who maintained that Adam was created with a tail, and that it was from this appendage Eve was fashioned.  Other Jewish traditions tell us that Eve was made from “the thirteenth rib of the right side” (Targ.