ol. 88, col. 2.

All this and a great deal more on the subject may be found in
the Selichoth for Yom Kippur.

For seven years was the land of Israel strewn with brimstone and salt.

_Yoma_, fol. 54, col. 1.

"Then shall we raise against him seven shepherds" (Micah. v. 5). Who are
these seven shepherds? David in the middle: Adam, Seth, and Methuselah
on his right hand; Abraham, Jacob, and Moses on his left.

_Succah_, fol. 52, col. 2.

Who were the seven prophetesses? The answer is, Sarah, Miriam, Deborah,
Hannah, Abigail, Huldah, and Esther.

_Meggillah_, fol. 14, col. 2.

It is lawful to look into the face of a bride for seven days after her
marriage, in order to enhance the affection with which she is regarded
by her husband, and there is no Halachah (or law) like this.

_Kethuboth_, fol. 17, col. 1.

The Rabbis are especially careful to caution their daughters to
guard against such habits as might lower them in the regard of
their husbands, lest they should lose aught of that purifying
and elevating power which they exercised as maidens. It is thus,
for instance, Rav Chisda counsels his daughters: "Be ye modest
before your husbands and do not even eat before them. Eat not
vegetables or dates in the evening, and touch not strong drink."
(_Shabbath_, fol. 140, col. 2.)

Once upon a time a demon in the shape of a seven-headed dragon came
forth against Rav Acha and threatened to harm him, but the Rabbi threw
himself on his knees, and every time he fell down to pray he knocked off
one of these heads, and thus eventually killed the dragon.

_Kiddushin_, fol. 29, col. 2.

On the seventh of the month Adar, Moses died, and on that day the manna
ceased to come down from heaven.

Ibid., fol. 38, col. 1.

The seventh of Adar is still, and has long been, kept sacred as
the day of the death of Moses our Rabbi--peace be with him!--and
that on the authority of T.B. Kiddushin (as quoted above), and
Soteh, fol. 10, col. 2; but Josephus (Book iv. chap. 8, sec. 49)
most distinctly affirms that Moses died "on the first day of the
month," and the Midrash on Esther may be quoted in corroboration
of his statement. The probability is that the Talmud is right on
this matter, but it is altogether wrong in connecting with this
event the stoppage of the manna (see Josh. v. 10, 12).

Seven years did the nations of the world cultivate their vineyards wi