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Honi

looks like I need to switch to barlesque to read that. It is gobbledygook in classic goo.

Yes I am haveing all sorts of problems

Was that HaMa' agel the Circle Drawer

Yes (though I am getting funny code in your message)

Then I guess next we have to figure out how his circles contributed to his death.
It is curious what comes to be the defining event in ones life. Like the man who proclamed he would not shave until Osama Bin Laden was brought to Justice. he had a beard for ten years.
Someday we may have a QI about Gary the bearded one
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/may/040511-osama-dead-man-finally-shaves.htm

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The full answer

Honi Ha-Ma'agel. Honi the Circle-Drawer) (1st century BCE) was a Jewish scholar

On one occasion when God did not send rain well into the winter (in the geographic regions of Israel, it rains mainly in the winter), he drew a circle in the dust, stood inside it, and informed God that he would not move until it rained. When it began to drizzle, Choni told God that he was not satisfied and expected more rain; it then began to pour. He explained that he wanted a calm rain, at which point the rain calmed to a normal rain.

He was almost put into cherem (excommunication) for the above incident in which he showed "dishonor" to God. However, Shimon ben Shetach, the brother of Queen Shlomtzion, excused him, saying that he was Choni and had a special relationship with God.


The circumstances of Honi's death are described in the Talmud. He is said to have fallen asleep, to wake up after 70 years. When nobody would believe that he was indeed Honi the Circle-drawer, he prayed to God and God took him from this world.

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