**The Sanhedrin** was exiled [(ten exiles from the Chamber of Hewn Stone to the shops to Yerushalayim)] from Yerushalayim to Yavneh 40 years before the destruction, year 3788, and the doors of the Temple opened by themselves. And in that year Shmuel HaKatan established the blessing against the heretics before Rabban Gamliel the Elder. And from then Rabbi Tzadok [(see there)] began to fast for 40 years [(see Rabban Gamliel the Elder, from the name of...) (Tzeda)].