Shelamzion’s Abundant Rains and Grain

Sifra Be?ukotay 1:1

3rd or 4th Century

And I shall give your rain in its season (Leviticus 26:4). On Saturday nights. It once happened in the days of Shimeon ben Shatah, in the days of Shelamzion that rains fell from Saturday night to Saturday night so that wheat grains became as large as kidneys and barley grains as large as olive pits and lentils as large as gold denari.

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Mosaic with three registers, arranged vertically. In the center register is a depiction of a person with a halo surrounded by the zodiac. In the top register is a Torah shrine flanked by two menorahs, surrounded by ritual objects. In the bottom register is a grid with Greek inscriptions, flanked by lions.
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