Getting to Sorry
| Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur
By :
Shira D. Epstein Former Dean of the William Davidson School, ý
Posted On Sep 26, 2016 / 5777 | Sound Bytes | Holidays
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BT Bekhorot 57b
Once, the egg of a [Ziz]* fell and it flooded sixteen cities and destroyed three hundred cedar trees.
פעם אחת נפלה ביצת בר יוכני*, וטבעה ששים כרכים, ושברה שלש מאות ארזים.
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*In this text, the bird is called a bar yokhni, however, former ý professor Louis Ginzberg z”l explains that this is identified by later authorities as the same bird as the Ziz. (Legends of the Jews, vol. 1, p. 32, n. 139)