50. “Rabbi Ḥiyya arose etc.” Rabbi Ḥiyya arose and was walking and crying, and Rabbi Yosei with him. He fasted forty days from that day, [in order] to see Rabbi Shimon. He was informed: “You are unworthy of seeing him.” He wept and fasted forty more days. He was shown in a vision Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Elazar, his son, engaged in this matter that Rabbi Yosei said in the name of Rabbi Shimon (section 45, above), and several thousands were listening to his words.

Explanation: In his distress for the beauty that withers in the dust, as described above, he yearned to see Rabbi Shimon’s level, because he had already decided that Rabbi Shimon is not withering in the dust. “In this matter that Rabbi Yosei said,” i.e., the above statement that Rabbi Yosei said to Rabbi Ḥiyya in the name of Rabbi Shimon, which led to this whole awakening.