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289) “Under three things the earth quakes … under a slave when he becomes king.” There is none so low, vile, and ignoble before the Creator as the Egyptians. Yet, the Creator gave them dominion over Israel. “The maidservant that is heir to her mistress is Hagar, who bore Ishmael. Ishmael did several wrongs to Israel: he ruled over them, tormented them with various torments, declared several destructions of them, and to this day they overtake them and do not let them be in their tenet. There is no such harsh exile for Israel as the exile in Ishmael.
290) Rabbi Joshua was going up to the Jerusalem. While on the way, he saw an Arab walking with his son. They met a Jew. The Arab told his son, this Jew is defiled because his Master loathes him. Smear him and spit on his beard seven times, for he is from the seed of the upper ones, from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I know that seventy nations are enslaved to them. His son went and grabbed the Jew’s beard. Rabbi Joshua said, “High ones, High ones,” meaning he prayed by ancestral merit, “I declare that the upper ones, the Arab, and his son, who consider themselves superior to the Jews, shall come down.” Before Rabbi Joshua completed his words, they were swallowed in the ground where they stood.
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