Bava Batra

They slept on their backs; and the knee of one of them was raised, and the Arab merchant passed under the knee, riding on a camel with spear erect, and did not touch it. I cut off one corner of the purple-blue shawl  of one of them; and we could not move away. He said unto me: '[If] you have, peradventure, taken something from them, return it; for we have a tradition that he who takes anything from them cannot move away.' I went and returned it; and then we were able to move away. When I came before the Rabbis they said unto me: Every Abba  is an ass and every Bar Bar Hana is a fool. For what purpose did you do that?  Was it in order to ascertain whether [the Law] is in accordance with the [decision of] Beth Shammai or Beth Hillel?  You should have counted the threads and counted the joints. He  said unto me: 'Come and I will show you Mount Sinai.' [When] I arrived I saw that scorpions  surrounded it and they stood like white asses. I heard a Bath Kol  saying: 'Woe is me that I have made an oath  and now that I have made the oath, who will release me?'  When I came before the Rabbis, they said unto me: 'Every Abba  is an ass and every Bar Bar Hana is a fool. You should have said, Mufar lak.'  He,  however, thought that perhaps it was the oath in connection with the Flood.  And the Rabbis?— If so;  why, 'woe is me'? He said unto me: 'Come, I will show you the men of Korah that were swallowed up.  I saw two cracks that emitted smoke. I took a piece of clipped wool, dipped it in water, attached it to the point of a spear and let it in there. And when I took it out it was singed. [Thereupon] he said unto me: 'Listen attentively [to] what you [are about to] hear.' And I heard them say: 'Moses and his Torah are truth and we  are liars.' He said unto me: 'Every thirty days Gehenna  causes them to turn back here as [one turns] flesh in a pot,  and they say thus: "Moses and his law are truth and we  are liars".' He said unto me: 'Come, I will show you where heaven and earth touch one another.'  I took up my [bread] basket and placed it in a window of heaven. When I concluded my prayers I looked for it but did not find it. I said unto him: 'Are there thieves here?' He replied to me: 'It is the heavenly wheel revolving. Wait here until tomorrow and you will find it.' R. Johanan related: Once we were travelling on board a ship and we saw a fish that raised its head out of the sea. Its eyes were like two moons, and water streamed from its two nostrils as [from] the two rivers of Sura. R. Safra related: Once we travelled on board a ship and we saw a fish that raised its head out of the sea. It had horns on which was engraven: 'I am a minor creature of the sea, I am three hundred parasangs [in length] and I am [now] going into the mouth of Leviathan.'  R. Ashi said: It was a sea-goat which searches [for its food] and [for that purpose] has horns. R. Johanan related: Once we were travelling on board a ship and we saw a chest in which were set precious stones and pearls and it was surrounded by a species of fish called Karisa.  There went down