**In the days** of the Rif, around the year 4850, 4951 to the destruction [(there is a printing error here)] Kunshidunti decreed that all Jews must convert within a month of days and most converted, and within a few days the king died [(Seder HaKabbalah chapter 119).] And in the following years great and new heavenly signs were seen, and wonders throughout the entire celestial sphere were seen - red like a burning furnace. The sun and moon did not shine as is customary, and there were no eclipses of the sun and moon that are seen, and also the rest of the stars of heaven were changed in their light.

Many stars were seen as if they fell from heaven to earth, and there was seen in the air of the firmament something similar to torches of fire and the form of a red sword, etc. Also the form of red arrows, red as fire, and there were great thunderings, terrible sights with hail and fire catching, and great and terrible winds. And those who understand the heavens judged from this troubles and evils, and so it was.

And at that time there was a great earthquake in Saxony and Regensburg. Also a locust plague arose and it was a span wide and two spans long and the sun was not seen and they ate all the produce and many died and the land was disgusted, and from this came a great plague in almost all of Ashkenaz for five years, [(Tzeda LaDerech chapter 72)].