Maybe it didn't happen exactly like this
Oct 11, 2005
Rabbi Nehunia ben Ha-Kanah saw a forked road and grieved that it would branch north and south. Rabbi Akiva saw raw silk and wept at the thought that some would be dyed yellow and some black. Rabbi Ba, in the name of Rav Judah, said, "They were sad because what originally had been the same would now be different.".
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on 2005-10-11 16:57:08.0, text commented:
Then saith Rabbi Lehanu ben Ha-Rashon: "What makes them even sadder is the placement of an extraneous punctuation."