Study Berakhot folio 28A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
There is room for concern. Perhaps they will remove you from office just as they removed Rabban Gamliel. He said to her, based on the folk saying: Let a person use an expensive goblet one day and let it break tomorrow. In other words, one should take advantage of an opportunity that presents itsel
It was taught: On that day that they removed Rabban Gamliel from his position and appointed R' Elazar ben Azarya in his place, there was also a fundamental change in the general approach of the study hall as they dismissed the guard at the door and permission was granted to the students to enter. I
The Talmud relates: On that day several benches were added to the study hall to accommodate the numerous students. R' Yoḥanan said: Abba Yosef ben Dostai and the Rabbis disputed this matter. One said: 400 benches were added to the study hall. And one said: 700 benches were added to the study hall. W
It was taught: There is a tradition that tractate Eduyyot was taught that day. And everywhere in the Mishnah or in a baraita that they say: On that day, it is referring to that day. There was no halakha whose ruling was pending in the study hall that they did not explain and arrive at a practical h
As we learned in a Mishnah: On that day, Yehuda, the Ammonite convert, came before the students in the study hall and he said to them: What is my legal status in terms of entering into the congregation of Israel, i.e., to marry a Jewish woman?