1)

(a)The emperor of Rome asked Rebbi Yehoshua ben Chananya, that, since he was so wise - he should tell him what he would dream the following night.

(b)In response, he told him that in his dream - the Persians (his enemies) would take him captive him ...

(c)... and make him tend to their Sheratzim - holding a golden staff.

2)

(a)Shavur Malka - king of Persia, made a similar request of Shmuel.

(b)Shmuel said - that in his dream, the Romans would capture him ...

(c)... and make him grind - date-pits ...

(d),,, with a golden mill.

(e)The predictions of both Raban Gamliel and Shmuel come true - because, telling them weird and frightening things caused them to think about what they had said all day, and consequently, to dream about them at night.

3)

(a)Abaye and Rava - had identical dreams, over and over again.

(b)Both went to bar Hedya - who was a professional dream-interpreter.

(c)When both Amora'im dreamt the Pasuk in Ki Savo "Shorcha Tavu'ach le'Einecha ... ", he interpret it on behalf of ...

1. ... Rava - that his business would fail and that he would not manage to eat due to worries.

2. ... Abaye - that his business would succeed and that he would not be able to eat from Simchah.

(d)In this case and all the subsequent cases, did bar Hedya interpreted all of Abaye's and Rava's dreams the way he did - since Abaye paid him whilst Rava did not, and that was his custom to give a positive interpretation to those who paid and a negative to those who did not.

(e)It is possible to interpret the same same dream in such diverse ways - inasmuch as 'Dreams go after the interpretation'.

4)

(a)When both Abaye and Rava dreamt the Pasuk there "Banim u'Banos Tolid ve'Lo Yih'yu l'cha ki Yeilchu ba'Shevi", he interpreted the Pasuk literally for Rava. He told Abaye - that he would hav many sons and daughters, and that when his daughters would marry 'strange' men and leave the house it would be in his eyes as if they had gone into captivity.

(b)They then dreamt the Pasuk there "Banecha u'Venosecha Nesunos le'Am Acher". bar Hedya foretold - that Abaye and his wife would argue over - whether their many children should marry his relatives or hers ...

(c)... and that they would ultimately marry her relatives.

5)

(a)Based on the word "Acher" in the previous dream, bar Hedya informed Rava - that his wife would die and that her children would fall under the jurisdiction of another wife.

(b)"Am Acher' in the case of ...

1. ... Abaye, referred to - his wife's relatives, in the case of ...

2. ... Rava - to a step-mother.

(c)Rava himself, quoting ... Rav, interpreted "Am Acher" with reference to - a step-mother.

6)

(a)Their next dream involved the Pasuk in Koheles "Lech Echol be'Simchah Lachmecha ... ". Successful business-deals would cause Abaye to eat, drink and rejoice.

(b)He said to Rava - that he would Shecht animals but would not eat or drink.

(c)Both Abaye and Rava were destined to read the Pasuk, ...

1. ... Abaye - out of happiness ...

2. ... Rava - in order to allay his fears.

7)

(a)For ...

1. ... Abaye - bar Hedya stressed the first half of the Pesukim there "Zera Rav Totzi ha'Sadeh, u'Me'at Te'esof ... and "Zeisim Yih'yu l'cha be'Chol Gevulecha, ve'Shemen Lo Sasuch ... ", and for ...

2. ... Rava - the second half.

(b)And he interpreted the Pasuk there "ve'Ra'u Kol Amei-ha'Aretz ki Shem Hash-m Nikra alecha ve'Yar'u mimeka" ...

1. ... for Abaye - to mean that word would spread that he was destined to become Rosh Yeshivah and that the people would stand in awe of him ...

2. ... for Rava - that thieves will break into the king's ornament-treasury, that he would be accused of the crime, and that people would be afraid that if Rava could be accused of stealing from the king, how much more so they.

(c)The very next day - the theft took place, and Rava was taken into custody.

8)

(a)Both Abaye and Rava were wine-merchants.

(b)When they both dreamt that they saw lettuce on top of a barrel of wine, he told Abaye that his business will prosper like lettuce (which is wide and grows double, and Rava - that his wine-business would become 'bitter' like lettuce.

(c)And when they both saw in their dream meat on top of a barrel of wine, he told ...

1. ... Abaye - that everyone will start coming to him to purchase meat and wine, and ...

2. ... Rava - that his wine would turn sour and that everyone would come to purchase meat to eat with his wine.

9)

(a)When they both dreamt that they saw a barrel of wine hanging on a date palm, bar Hedya told ...

1. ... Abaye - that his business would rise (improve) like a date-palm.

2. ... Rava - that his wine would become sweet, and that he would be forced to sell it cheaply.

(b)And when they dreamt that they saw pomegranates growing on a barrel, he told ...

1. ... Abaye - that his wine would go up in price (become large like a pomegranate).

2. ... Rava - that his wine would turn acidy (like a pomegranate) and nobody woujld want to purchase it.

(c)Next they dreamt that the saw a barrel of wine falling into a pit. To ...

1. ... Abaye, he said - that his wine would become popular and people would seek it, and to ...

2. ... Rava - that his wine would become unwanted and that he would throw it into a pit.

(d)Finally, they dreamt that they saw a donkey standing by their cushion (heads). Bar Hedya told Abaye that he would become king (Rosh Yeshivah) and that he a Meturg'man will stand beside him to say over his D'rashos to the people (in a loud voice, like a donkey braying). Whereas to Rava, he said ...

1. ... initially - that the words "u'Peter Chamor" were missing from the Parshah "ve'Hayah ki Yevi'acha".

2. ... that the 'Vav' in "Chamor" (which is supposed to be missing) was written in and then erased.

10)

(a)Ultimately, Rava went to bar Hedya alone. When he told the latter that ...

1. ... the outer door of his house fell down - he told him that his wife would die ...

2. ... molars and his front teeth fell out - that his sons and daughters would die.

3. ... two doves flew away - that he would divorce two wives.

4. ... he saw two heads of turnips - that he would be struck twice a by a club.

(b)The connection between ...

1. ... the outer door of his house and his wife is - that she is the one who protects the house.

2. ... wives and doves lies - in the Pasuk in Shir ha'Shirim "Yonasi Tamasi".

3. ... heads of turnips and a beating with a club is - that the top of the club is shaped like the head of a turnip.

(c)When, after spending a day in the Beis-ha'Medrash, Rava tried to intervene in a fight between two blind men - they turned on him and beat him twice with a club.

(d)When they wanted to strike him once more - he declared that two sufficed, as that is what the dream had foretold.

11)

(a)On the next five occasions that Rava went to bar Hedya to interpret a dream, the forecast was more positive. When he dreamt that ...

1. ... a wall fell down, he told him - that he acquired a vast amount of property, that ...

2. ... Abaye's house collapsed and that dust covered the bricks - that Abaye would die and that his Yeshivah would pass over to him.

3. ... His own house collapsed and people came and helped themselves to the bricks - that his Torah thoughts would spread.

4. ... his head split open and his brains spilt out - that his cushion would split open and stuffing would fall out.

5. ... he recited Hallel ha'Mitzri - that he was about to experience a miracle.

(b)bar Hedya switched to positive interpretations - because Rava began paying him for his interpretations, and ...

(c)... he left the ferry as he and Rava were about to cross the river - because, he figured, that miracle might refer to the ferry capsizing and Rava being saved.

12)

(a)As bar Hedya turned to leave the ferry - he dropped his book on how to interpret dreams.

(b)When Rava glanced at the book, he discovered written inside it - follow the interpretation ...

(c)... and do not have fixed interpretations - as he had previously thought.

(d)He then conferred upon bar Hedya the title of - 'Rasha'.

13)

(a)If there was one thing which Rava could not forgive bar Hedya, it was - the death of is beloved wife, the daughter of Rav Chisda.

(b)Before they parted company, he wished him - he shouold fall into the hands of a nation that has no mercy.

(c)bar Hedya ...

1. ... was afraid - due to the tradition that the curse of a Chacham, even when it has no justification, comes true ...

2. ... howe much more so that of Rava. Which was!

(d)He therefore fled to Rome - because he thought that, since Mar said that exile atones for sin, Rava's curse might not take effect.

(e)In Rome, he stationed himself - next to the keeper of the royal wardrobe.

14)

(a)Even when in Rome, bar Hedya continued - to take revenge against people who did not pay for his services.

(b)Consequently, when the keeper of the royal wardrobe dreamt that a needle had pierced his finger - he demanded payment before he would agree to interpret his dream.

(c)Next, the royal keeper dreamt - that two of his fingers had become wormy.

(d)When he dreamt that his entire hand had become wormy - bar Hedya told the keeper - that worms had devoured the entire wardrobe.

15)

(a)When the emperor he discovered what had happened to his wardrobe - he sentenced the keeper of the wardrobe to death.

(b)They brought bar Hedya before him - when the keeper ... asked the Emperor why he was punishing him rather than the man who knew what was happening but who refused to divulge it.

(c)Before sentencing him to death, the Emperor said to him 'For your (miserable) Zuz, my silks had to be destroyed!'

(d)They carried out the death-sentence - by tying his two feet to the tops of two saplings which they had bent to the ground and tied with ropes, and then cutting the ropes, splitting bar Hedya in two as the tops of the trees flew back into place.

16)

(a)ben Dama - Rebbi Yishmael's nephew, related his dreams to Rebbi Yishmael.

(b)In one dream, his two jaws fell out. Rebbi Yishmael interpret it to mean - that the two groups of Romans who plotted against him had died.

(c)Rebbi interpret bar Kapara's dream that ...

1. ... his nose fell off to mean - that Hash-m's anger (Charon Af) against him had dissipated.

2. ... his two hands were severed - that he would become wealthy and no longer need to work.

3. ... his two feet were severed - that he would ride on a horse.

(d)In his next dream, bar Kapara dreamt that he would die in Adar and not see Nisan, which Rebbi interpreted to mean that ...

1. ... he would die in honor (Hadar) and

2. ... that he would not encounter Nisyonos (trials).

17)

(a)Rebbi Yishmael interpret the dream of a certain Tzedoki who dreamt that he ...

1. ... was watering olive-trees with oil - to mean that he had had relations with his mother.

2. ... tore out a star - that he stole a Jew.

3. ... swallowed a star.

(b)What is the connection between the two latter dreams and the interpretation - is that Yisrael are compared to stars.

(c)And when he dreamt that ...

1. ... his two eyes kissed each other, he told him - that he had had relations with his sister.

2. ... two moons kissed each other - that he had had relations with the wife of a Yisrael.

3. ... he walked in the shade of a myrtle-tree - ... with a betrothed girl.

4. ... that the load that he was carrying on his shoulder was underneath him - that he had been intimate with the woman on top of him.

(d)When he dreamt that he saw, first ravens, and then pigeons, surrounding his bed, Rebbi Yishmael interpreted them to mean that - his wife had committed adultery with many men and that he had defiled many women.

18)

(a)Rebbi Yishmael interpreted the Tzedoki's dream ...

1. ... that the two doves he was holding flew away - to mean that he had narried two women and sent them away with a Get.

2. ... that he was shelling eggs to mean - that he stripped corpses in their graves.

(b)When he claimed that everything that Rebbi Yishmael had said was correct except for that - a woman walked past and pointed out that the cloak that he was wearing had belonged to a certain deceased man off whom he stripped it.

(c)Finally, the Tzedoki dreamt that his father left him property in Kepudki. Before interpreting it, Rebbi Yishmael asked him whether he owned property in Kepudki, and - whether his father had ever been there.

(d)When the Tzedoki answered in the negative, he interpreted the dream, based on the acronym of the word 'Kepudki' ...

1. ... 'Kapa' in Persian - means 'a beam'.

2. ... 'Dika' in Greek means - 'ten'.

(e)He therefore told him - that in the tenth beam of his house he would find a large sum of money which his father had hidden there, which he subsequently did.

19)

(a)There are three set interpretations of seeing a well in a dram ...

1. ... Rebbi Chanina interprets it, based on the Pasuk in Chayei Sarah "va'Yachper Avdei Yitzchak va'Yimtze'u Sham Be'er Mayim Chayim" - to mean that one will be blssed with peace.

2. ... Rebbi Nasan interprets it by means of a Gezeirah-Shavah between the same Pasuk and the Pasuk in Mishlei (whose main theme is Torah) "Ki Motza'i Matza Chayim" - that he will blessed with Torah.

3. ... Rava learns it from the simple meaning of the Pasuk - that he will be blessed with life.

20)

(a)According to Rebbi Chanan, based on Pesukim in Yeshayah, a river, a bird and a pot in a dream signify peace.

(b)Rebbi Chanina, based on a Pasuk in Michah, qualified the last item - by confining it to a pot which does not contain meat ...

(c)... because the Pasuk writes in Michah "u'Farsu ka'asher ba'Sid, u'che'Basar asher ba'Tzlachas" - which is a bad sign.

(d)According to Rebbi Yehoshua ben Levi, if someone dreams about ...

1. ... a river - should get up in the morning and recite the Pasuk in Yeshayah "Hin'ni Noteh eilehah ke'Nahar Shalom" before the Pasuk there "Ki Yavo ke'Nahar Tzar" springs to mind. Likewise, if someone dreams about ...

2. ... a bird he should recite the Pasuk in Yeshayah "ke'Tiparim Afos, kein Yagein Hash-m ... al Yerushalayim" before the Pasuk in Mishlei "ke'Tzipor Nodedes min Kaneh" springs to mind. And if he dreams about ...

3. ... a pot, he should recite the Pasuk in Yeshayah "Hash-m Tishpos Shalom lanu" before the Pasuk in Yechezkel "Sh'fos ha'Sir, Sh'fos ha'Ro'eh" enters his mind.

21)

(a)Rebbi Yehoshua ben Levi says further that someone who dreams that he saw ...

1. ... grapes should recite the Pasuk in Hoshe'a "ka'Anavim ba'Midbar" before the Pasuk in Ha'azinu"Anoveimo Invei Rosh" springs to mind.

2. ... a mountain should recite the Pasuk in Yeshayah "Mah Navu al he'Harim Raglei Mevaser" before he thinks of the Pasuk in Yirmiyah "al he'Harim Esa Bechi".

3. ... a Shofar and the two Pesukim "Vehayah ba'Yom ha'Hu Yitaka be'Shofar Gadol" (Yeshayah) before thinking about the Pasuk in Hoshe'a "Tik'u Shofar be'Givah".

22)

(a)If one dreams about a dog, the Pasuk in Bo that Rebbi Yehoshua ben Levi advises one to recite before the Pasuk in Yeshayah "ve'ha'Kelavim Azei Nefesh" springs to mind is - "u'le'Chol B'nei Yisrael Lo Yecheratz Kelev Leshono".

(b)He also says that someone who dreams about a lion - should recite the Pasuk in Amos "Aryeh Sha'ag Mi Lo Yiyra" before the Pasuk in Yirmiyah "Alah Aryeh mi'Subcho" springs to mind.

(c)When dreaming about taking a shave, he advise a person to recite the Pasuk in Mikeitz - "Vayegalach Vauechalef Simlosav" before the Pasuk in Shoftim "ve'Gulachti ve'Sar Kochi" springs to mind.

(d)And Rebbi Yehishua ben Levi finally says that a person who dreams about ...

1. ... a well should recite the Pasuk in Shir ha'Shirim "Be'er Mayim Chayim" before he thinks of the Pasuk in Yirmiyah "ke'Hakir Bor ... Meimehah".

2. ... a cane should recite the Pasuk in Yeshayah "Kaneh Ratzutz Lo Yishbor" before that of "Hinei Batachta l'cha al Mish'enes ha'Kaneh ha'Ratzutz" in Melachim - enters his mind.

23)

(a)According to the Beraisa, a person who dreams about ...

1. ... a cane, based on the Pasuk in Mishlei "Reishis Chochmah K'nei Chochmah", should hope for - Chochmah (knowledge).

2. ... canes, based on the Pasuk there "u've'Chol Kinyanecha K'nei Binah", should hope for - Binah (understanding).

(b)Rebbi Zeira says that 'Kara (a pumpkin), Korei (a creeper that grows round a date-palm), Kira (wax) and Kanya (a cane)' in a deam - all signify something positive.

(c)'Delu'in' is another word for - Kara (a pumpkin).

(d)According to another Beraisa - it is only someone who fears Hash-m who sees them in a dream.

(e)If someone dreams about an ox, he should recite the Pasuk in ve'Zos ha'Berachah - "B'chor Shoro Hadar lo", before the Pasuk in Mishpatim "ve'Chi Yigach Shor es Ish u'Meis" springs to mind.

24)

(a)The first in the list of five things that the Beraisa says about a dream containing an ox is that if he eats from it, he will become rich. If the ox gores him - it is a sign that his children will battle with each other in Torah.

(b)If it bites him, it is a sign that he will suffer, if ...

1. ... it kicks him - that he is destined to embark on a long journey, and if ...

2. ... he rides on it - that he is destined to rise to greatness.

(c)To reconcile this with another Beraisa, which states 'Rachbo, Meis', we establish the latter - where the ox rode on him.

25)

(a)Based on the Pasuk in Zecharyah (in connection with Mashi'ach) "Hinei Malkech Yavo lach, Tzadik ve'Nosha hu, Ani ve'Rochev al ha'Chamor", a person who sees a donkey in his dream can expect - salvation.

(b)And if he sees a cat, this signifies, in a place where they call a cat ...

1. ... 'Shunra' - Shirah Na'ah (a nice song), the acronym of 'Shunra'.

2. ... 'Shinra' - Shinuy Ra (a change for the worse (the acronym of 'Shinra').

(c)If he sees grapes, the Tana draws a distinction between 'white' grapes - which always signify something good, 'black' ones.

(d)Black also signify good news - when they are in season ...

(e)... but something bad, when they are out of season.

26)

(a)Similarly, the Tana differentiates between seeing a white horse - which signifies good news regardless as to whether it is walking or running, and a red/brown one.

(b)The same applies to a red one that is walking - but bad news if it is running.

(c)The Tana says that if someone sees Yishmael - the son of Avraham, in a dream, it means that Hash-m has heard his prayers.

(d)To know that he was spared from death, a person must have seen - a camel in a dream.

(e)Rebbi Chama b'Rebbi Chanina learns this from acronym of the words "Gam Aloh" (in the Pasuk in Vayigash "Anochi Eired im'cha Mitzraymah va'Anochi A'alcha Gam Aloh"), Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak from the Pasuk in Shmuel (where Nasan ha'Navi was instructed to tell David) "Gam Hash-m He'evir Chatascha Lo Tamus" - from the word "Gam" (which contains most of the letters of 'Gamal'.

27)

(a)Seeing Pinchas in a dream indicates that one will experience a miracle - like Pinchas did when he killed Zimri and Kozbi.

(b)If he sees ...

1. ... an elephant - then he will experience miracles (note that the word 'Pil' contains the two main letters of 'Pelle' - miracle) ...

2. ... more than one elephants - he will experience even greater wonders.

(c)Another Beraisa says that dreaming about any Chayah in a dream - is a good sign, except for two, one of which is an elephant ...

(d)... the other - a monkey.

(e)We reconcile the two Beraisos - by establishing the first one where the Chayah is saddled and the second one where it is not.