He said to him, "No": [I will not] leave you alone.

He said to him: He (Bar Kamtza) [said], "I will give you money for half of your feast."

Eikhul kurtza: Talebearing.

An offering: A sacrifice to offer on top of the altar. Since we establish, "Any man (ish ish)" (Leviticus 22:18), to include the idolaters who may vow to bring vow offerings and gift offerings like a Jew (Chullin 13b).

On the overhanging lip: The upper lip.

For them, it is only a blemish to sacrifice to the Higher realm on their altar, one missing a limb. Dokin is teile (in Old French); as in, "spread out like a dok" (Isaiah 40:22).

They will say, "One who makes a blemish on sacrificial animals is to be killed": Such that they will reason that he was killed because he placed a blemish in [a sacrifice] and transgressed on account of, "no blemish shall be in it" (Leviticus 22:21).

His humility: His tolerance, since he tolerated this one and did not kill him.

He shot an arrow to the east: To engage in divination, when he was close to Jerusalem.

That child: We do not follow the version: He stuttered in his speech.

By the hand of My people Israel: Through My people Israel.

And to clean His hands: To wipe his hands.

Nakdah: Pierced, [like] the usage, "we pierce the mountains" (Eruvin 58a). He had the sun pierce for him - it shone for his sake, in Tractate Taanit (20a).

His fringes (tzizit): The fringes of his talit.

Dragged along on blankets and seats: As he would only walk on fine wool.

There are those who say: His name was Ben Tzizit. So why was he called HaKesat? Because kissato, his chair, was found among the nobles of Rome when he went to Rome to greet Caesar.

They had: These three rich men [had] wheat, barley, wine and wood to sustain all the people of the city for twenty-one years.

Zealots (or Ruffians): Empty people eager for war.

The Sages said to them: To these zealots.

You will not be successful: To win.

They arose: The zealots.

They burned down these ambarei: These storehouses of produce and wood [were burned] so that they would fight.

Semida: Fine flour.

White: Refined bread.

Gushkera:: Coarse bread, seondier (in Old French).

Parta: The remnants of animal dung.

And she died: Due to her delicateness.

Figs: From those that Rabbi Tzakok left over [after] he sucked its liquid. And she found it and ate it out of her hunger. But she tasted of the smell of Rabbi Tzadok's sickness that had entered the fig and died from her delicateness.

It was visible: In his throat.

From the outside: Because he was skinny.

When he would eat: When he finished his fasts and wanted to feed himself.

They would bring him figs: Dried figs. Since he was not able to swallow something thick, he would suck its liquid and throw out the figs.

Abba Sikkara That was his name.

He sent to him: Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai [sent the message], "Come to me in secret."

He said to him: Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai [spoke].

Until when will you do this: As you have not allowed us to make peace.

Show me a method for me: That they will let me leave the city.

Pretend to be sick: Act as if you are sick; put out a rumor that you are sick.

To ask about you: As if you were dying.

Bring something putrid: Something that smells, such as an animal corpse.

And place it near you: And lay it in your bed with you, so that they will say, "He is dead and already smells."

And have your students enter: They should go under the legs of your bier to carry [it]; and they should not allow others to carry [it]. As they know that a living person is lighter than a dead person.

They wanted: Those zealots.

To pierce him with spears, lest he was tricking [them].

He said to them: Abba Sikkara [spoke].

They will say: The Romans [will say] about you, that they even stab their teachers.

To push him: Maybe he would yell.

Because I am not a king: And you mocked me.