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Our daf is the most important reflection on aggadic themes in the masechtah.
It begins with yesterday’s challenges given to Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya from the Roman Emperor. When he wishes to see the Lord, Rabbi Yehoshua offers to look at the sun, which is impossible. That much more so to look at the master of the sun, he explains.
The Gemara then considers differences between bulls and donkeys. It also considers the prohibition against mixing species when referring to grass, which is already mixed.
The daf then discusses Adam harishon and the bull he offered with one horn.
We are told a story about the sun and the moon where Rabbi Shimon ben Pazi sees the moon in competition with the sun, offering that one should be less bright - but not the moon! Rabbi Shimon explains that the moon continues to beg for G-d's mercy and to allow it to be brighter. The moon understands that though people count our months with the moon, it is written in Genesis that we use the sun to count. G-d eventually convinces the moon that other creatures who are 'the lesser' are still great.
We explore these themes with reverence and a midrasnhic eye.