As she persuades him (meshadalto): She entices him; as we translate (Onkelos on Exodus 22:15), "And if a man entices," as Arei yeshadal.

"And the earth is My footstool": So one who transgresses in private is saying the Omnipresent is not here. Hence he is hidden, saying, "He does not know." It comes out that it is as though he is pushing away His feet and shortening Him, saying, "[He is] not here."

"The entire world is full": It implies that He extends and descends below. So one who stands with an upright posture appears as [if he] is pushing [God] away.

He said this to him: Rabbi Yehoshua answered him in the [same] way that Rabbi Eliezer answered him.

[If] she is divorced: Such that my mother is not obligated to honor my father. [If so], what is [the law]?

From your eyelashes: [These are] the hairs in the rows of eyelids. It is evident that you were orphaned, so your eyelashes fell out due to the crying. As it as we say [in Sanhedrin] (104b), "And Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel heard her voice and cried with her until his eyelashes fell out.

That you are the son of a widow And that you do not need [my answer] in practice. Rather you have come to learn, and I tell you that the honor of both of them is the same upon you.

Pour water for them into a pitcher and squawk: Crow to them, as we crow to chickens. And since he did not need to do [this in practice], but he asked him as if he had to do [it] - "my mother and father said" - [Rabbi Yehoshua] answered him with a jocular expression.

They returned and conceded about the first statements: All the more so is one obligated in His honor. For, like his father and his mother, He too is a partner in one's creation; and his life and death are given over to His hands.

"The beginning of Your word is truth": Scripture was not required to say, "The beginning of Your word is truth," except because they were speaking ill about His first statements, saying He is warning about His [own] honor; but afterwards when they heard the end of His words, they returned and conceded - they learned that the beginning of His words were true.

For six hundred thousand profit: He would have made a profit of six hundred thousand gold dinars.

Under his father’s head: And he was sleeping.

And if this is [related about] one who is not commanded, and he performs it: [That] the Holy One, blessed be He, paid him his reward.

Once he was wearing: Dama ben Netina.

A sirkon: A cloak called a cendre (cender - a type of silk).

Of gold: Embroidered with gold thread.

Pheasant: A prized and fatty bird. A type of quail (slav) that fell in the wilderness.

Causes him to be removed from the world: As he will be punished about him, since he showed him stinginess about his meal.

And there is [one] who makes him grind with a millstone: Which is hard work.