Translated from the Vilna edition.<\/p>\n
A baraita<\/i>. The year wherein Shim\u2018on the Righteous died, he had told them he would die that year. They asked: \u2018How do you know?\u2019 He replied to them: \u2018Every Yom Kippur an elder meets me wearing white and wrapped in white. He goes in (the Holy of Holies) with me and comes out with me. This year, an elder wearing black and wrapped in black met me. He went in with me, but he did not come back out with me.\u2019 A short time later he fell ill for seven days and then died, and his brethren priests were unable to use the Lord\u2019s Name in blessings. At the time of his (Shim’on\u2019s) departure, he said to them: \u2018My son Khonyo (i.e., Onias) will serve (as high priest) after me.\u2019 His brother Shim\u2018i was jealous of him because he was two and a half years older than him (Khonyo). He said to him: \u2018Come and I will teach you the sacrificial service.\u2019 He dressed him in a slip and tied a brassiere around him and stood him next to the altar. Then he (Shim\u2018i) said to his fellow priests: \u2018Look at how he is fulfilling the vow which he made to his lover: (namely) “Today when I serve as high priest, I shall wear your slip and brassiere!”\u2019 His fellow priests tried to kill him, but he ran away from them with them hot on his heels. He escaped to Alexandria in Egypt, built an altar there, and offered on it idolatrous sacrifices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Translated from the Vilna edition. A baraita. The year wherein Shim\u2018on the Righteous died, he had told them he would die that year. They asked: \u2018How do you know?\u2019 He replied to them: \u2018Every Yom Kippur an elder meets me wearing white and wrapped in white. He goes in (the Holy of Holies) with me and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"parent":522,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-532","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3kl1F-8A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions\/1749"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}