**The Alfasi** [(the aforementioned year 4816)] died in the year 4862. And at the end of the Alfasi it is written: "The Holy Ark, Rabbeinu Yitzchak, was taken away on Shabbat Kodesh, the 14th of Iyar in the city of Alisana in the year 4862 [(and see there that on the 14th of 4892 he died)] and they engraved these verses on his grave:

**They wrote** with an iron pen on shamir rock that the days of the world may last and be renewed. They said: In this grave is a source of wisdom. Come, children of Zion, and in bitterness, for it is a law of the lip. And weep over me in a place of breaking that was for memory.

Mourn for every generation, the last one was buried, and the world stands for his sake in awakening. Lament over him in sorrow, for in it were broken the tablets and the Ark.

**And this** is a poem in the meter of three vowels and a peg and three vowels and a peg and three vowels in a letter, and so at the conclusion.

**Rabbi Yosef HaLevi Migash** sat on the throne of Rav Alfasi from the year 4862 for 38 years until 4900 [(see there)], and in his days was Rabbi Yaakov bar Yakir, teacher of Rashi [(Tzeda LaDerech), (Rabbi Elazar bar Meshulam and Rabbi Elazar bar Meir bar Yitzchak of Orleans were elders in this generation and Rashi mentions them in the Tur, Seder HaKabbalah chapter 49, page 72)].