Ibid., fol 13, col 2.
The ablutionary tank made by Solomon was as large as a hundred and fifty lavatories.
Ibid., fol. 14, col. 1.
A hundred and eighty years before the destruction of the Temple, the empire of idolatry (Rome) began the conquest of Israel.
Shabbath, fol. 15, col. 1.
The empire of Rome was, some think, so designated, because it strove with all its might to drag down the worship of God to the worship of man, and resolve the cause of God into the cause of the Empire.
During the time of the second Temple Persia domineered over Israel for thirty-four years and the Greeks held sway a hundred and eighty.
Avodah Zarah, fol. 9, col. 1.
Foolish saints, crafty villains, sanctimonious women, and self-afflicting Pharisees are the destroyers of the world. What is it to be a foolish saint? To see a woman drowning in the river and refrain from trying to save her because of the look of the thing. Who is to be regarded as a crafty villain? Rabbi Yochanan says, "He who prejudices the magistrates by prepossessing them in favor of his cause before his opponent has had time to make his appearance." Rabbi Abhu says, "He who gives a denarius to a poor man to make up for him the sum total of two hundred zouzim; for it is enacted that he who possesses two hundred zouzim is not entitled to receive any gleanings, neither what is forgotten in the field, nor what is left in the corner of it (see Lev. xxiii. 22), nor poor relief either. But if he is only one short of the two hundred zouzim, and a thousand people give anything to him, he is still entitled to the poor man's perquisites."