The Pregnant Woman Who Fasted on Yom Kippur
A pregnant woman craves food on Yom Kippur; Rebbi has them whisper that it is Yom Kippur, she holds back, and her son becomes Rabbi Yochanan.
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A pregnant woman craves food on Yom Kippur; Rebbi has them whisper that it is Yom Kippur, she holds back, and her son becomes Rabbi Yochanan.
A party invitation goes to the wrong man, Bar Kamtza is thrown out in shame, and his revenge plot ends with Rabbi Zecharia ben Avkolos's fateful ruling.
Rabbi Yochanan marvels at the Torah of Bavel, traced to sages led into exile in chains who were 'mighty warriors' in the give-and-take of Torah.
Rav Heschel boasts that Rabbi Yochanan must now carry his clothes. His candle goes out, and the Shach finds an old man who says he is Rabbi Yochanan.
A bandit chief leaps into the river beside Rabbi Yochanan, who promises him his beautiful sister if he repents. The bandit becomes the great Reish Lakish.
Rabbi Yochanan sees a widow davening in his neighborhood and asks why she doesn't use the shul near her home. She answers that there is reward for the extra steps.
A widow walks past her local shul to daven in Rabbi Yochanan's beis midrash. When he asks why, she answers: is there not reward for each step?