“ You ought to have said an abbreviated prayer. [12] Thus I then learned from him three things: One must not go into a ruin; one may say the prayer on the road; and if one does say his prayer on the road, he recites an abbreviated prayer. ”

“ The Lord does roar from on high, and raise His voice from His holy habitation; 'roaring He doth roar' [8] because of his fold. And the sign of the thing is: [9] In the first watch, the ass brays; in the second, the dogs bark; in the third, the child sucks from the breast of his mother, and the woman talks with her husband. What does R. Eliezer understand [by the word watch] ? Does he mean the beginning of the watches? The beginning of the first watch needs no sign, it is the twilight! Does he mean the end of the watches? The end of the last watch needs no sign, it is the dawn of the day! ”