[Note: this text is the continuation of the story of Rabbi Yohanan from the second sheet accompanying Chapter 6. In brief, Rabbi Yohanan is a healer with extraordinary powers. At some point, he himself falls ill, and a colleague has to come support him. The Rabbis wonder: why could this healer not heal himself? They reason: a prisoner cannot free himself from prison. This is the very next episode in the Rabbi Yohanan narrative:]

...Rabbi Elazar fell ill, and Rabbi Yohanan came to visit him. He saw that Rabbi Elazar was lying in darkness; he pulled back his own sleeve and the room filled with light. By that light, he could see that Rabbi Elazar was weeping. He asked, "Why are you weeping? If it is because you are worried you have not studied enough Torah, we have learned that whether a person studies a little or a lot, they still get credit provided they directed their heart to Heaven. And if it is because you do not have enough sustenance - not everyone gets to eat at two tables. And if you are crying over children, look! This is a bone from the little finger of my tenth son."

"I am crying for the beauty that will fade away in the dust!" replied Rabbi Elazar.

"That's a good reason to cry," responded Rabbi Yohanan, and the two of them wept together.

After a while, Rabbi Yohanan said to Rabbi Elazar, "Is your pain welcome to you?" "No!" replied Rabbi Elazar, "not my pain, and not any reward it might bring me!" "Give me your hand," said Rabbi Yohanan - and he did, and Rabbi Yohanan raised him up.