English: Rav Ashi explains how a teaching of a great scholar can coincide with a halakhah transmitted from Sinai, and Rabbi Yochanan teaches that after the Temple’s destruction prophecy was transferred from prophets to fools and children. The episode illustrates how an apparently accidental statement can disclose a matter of significance.
On the daf / in context: See the cited source for the full section.
Type of Learning
Derash on the verse.
What Is Learned
The passage discusses the post-destruction status of prophecy and how insight can appear through unexpected speakers.