He got up and left.

To diminish gradually. To lessen little by little. To become smaller at a continuing pace.

("It is written (Isaiah 1) and I will make your grave a grave, and I will make all your gates a prison... Rabbi Johanan said: If you see a generation that is declining and passing away - wait for him (the Messiah) as it is said (Samuel 2:22) and the poor people he will save, etc. Rabbi Johanan said: If you see a generation that many troubles come upon it like a river - wait for him... and he will come to Zion as a deliverer"- Sanhedrin Tzach A.A., and so on: "From the time he returned to the days of spring, a cold began to grow inside him, half of whom was immersed in darkness and half of whom was consumed by the cold, and he never saw the face of heat" - Agnon/ Ad Hana, 6)

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