Study Chagigah folio 14B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
This case is referring to words of Torah, while that case is referring to commerce. With regard to words of Torah, they were trustworthy; with regard to commerce, they were not.
§ The Talmud returns to the topic of the Design of the Divine Chariot. A baraita states: An incident occurred involving Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai, who was riding on a donkey and was traveling along the way, and his student, R' Elazar ben Arakh, was riding a donkey behind him. R' Elazar said to him:
Immediately, Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai alighted from the donkey, and wrapped his head in his cloak in a manner of reverence, and sat on a stone under an olive tree. R' Elazar said to him: My teacher, for what reason did you alight from the donkey? He said: Is it possible that while you are expound
What song did they recite? “Praise YHWH from the earth, sea monsters and all depths…fruit trees and all cedars…praise YHWH” (Psalms 148:7–14). An angel responded from the fire, saying: This is the very Design of the Divine Chariot, just as you expounded. Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai stood and kissed R
The Talmud relates: And when these matters, this story involving his colleague R' Elazar ben Arakh, were recounted before R' Yehoshua, he was walking along the way with R' Yosei the Priest. They said: We too shall expound the Design of the Divine Chariot. R' Yehoshua began expounding. And that was