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Midrash Rabbah

Kohelet Rabbah 12.6

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English · The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022)

“Before the silver cord is severed, the golden skull is shattered, the pitcher is smashed at the spring, and the wheel is shattered into the cistern” (Ecclesiastes 12:6); “Before the silver cord is severed” – this is the spinal column; “the golden skull is shattered” – this is the skull. Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Neḥemya said: This is the throat, which expels the gold and expends the silver. “The pitcher is smashed at the spring” – this is a person’s stomach. Three days after [death] a person’s stomach bursts, and it moves [its contents] to the mouth and says to it: ‘Take for yourself what you stole and robbed and placed within me.’ Rabbi Ḥagai derives it from this verse: “I will scatter filth upon your faces, the filth of your festive offerings” (Malachi 2:3). Bar Kappara said: The full intensity of mourning is for three days, while the form of the countenance is still recognizable. We learned: One testifies only about the full face with the nose… “The wheel is shattered into the cistern” – two amora’im: One said: Like those wheels of Tzippori. One said: Like the clods in Tiberias, as it is stated: “The clods of the stream are sweet to him” (Job 21:33).

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English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). · Source ↗

English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). · Source ↗

English translation: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022, via Sefaria (sefaria.org). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed.

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