… It was taught: In the year in which Shimon
HaTzaddik died he foretold his own death. [His students] said to him, `How do
you know?’ He replied. `Every Yom Kippur there met me an old man, dressed in
white and wrapped in white, who entered with me into the Holy of Holies and
left with me; but this year there met me an old man, dressed in black and
wrapped in black, who entered with me but did not leave with me’. (Menachot 10)
-Rabbi Menachem Creditor
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