"If one happens to be found" - but not when it is a frequent occurrence. Hence the sages said: From the time when murderers proliferated, the breaking of the heifer's neck was discontinued. When Elazar ben Dinai and Tehina ben Perisha appeared. he [Tehina the son of Perisha] was subsequently renamed "the son of the murderer."
(י) חתכו חליות ונתן חול בין חליא לחליא, רבי אליעזר מטהר, וחכמים מטמאין.זה תנורו של עכנאי.יורות הערביין שהוא חופר בארץ וטח בטיט, אם יכול הטיט לעמוד בפני עצמו, טמא.ואם לאו, טהור.וזה תנורו של בן דינאי.
(10) If an oven is cut into rings, and sand is placed between the rings, Rabbi Eliezer says it is pure. But the sages say it is susceptible to impurity. This is the oven of Akhnai. Arabian vats, which are holes dug in the ground and plastered with clay - if the plastering can stand by itself it is susceptible to impurity; otherwise, it is not susceptible. This is the oven of Ben Dinai.
(ט) האשה שנחבשה בידי גוים על ידי ממון, מתרת לבעלה. על ידי נפשות, אסורה לבעלה...
(9) With regard to a woman who is imprisoned in the hands of gentiles: [If she is held] on account of money, she is [after her liberation] permitted to her husband. [But if she is held] under sentence of death, she is forbidden to her husband...
כלומר, שאין המלך מקפיד על נשיהם. ולוי אמר, כגון אשתו של בן דינאי, כלומר: שהיה ליסטים ומוכתב למלכות ונגמר דינו דאז אין המלך מקפיד על אשתו.
That is to say, the king is not particular about these women. Levi said, for example the wife of ben Dinai, that is to say: he was a bandit and had been sentenced to death, thus the king had no compunctions concerning his wife.
Rava proclaimed in Mehoze: "Balai, Dinai, Talai, Melai, Zagai - are all disqualified."
But on the fourth day of the feast, a certain soldier let down his breeches, and exposed his privy members to the multitude, which put those that saw him into a furious rage, and made them cry out that this impious action was not done to approach them, but God himself; nay, some of them reproached Cumanus, and pretended that the soldier was set on by him, which, when Cumanus heard, he was also himself not a little provoked at such reproaches laid upon him; yet did he exhort them to leave off such seditious attempts, and not to raise a tumult at the festival. But when he could not induce them to be quiet for they still went on in their reproaches to him, he gave order that the whole army should take their entire armor, and come to Antonia, which was a fortress, as we have said already, which overlooked the temple; but when the multitude saw the soldiers there, they were affrighted at them, and ran away hastily; but as the passages out were but narrow, and as they thought their enemies followed them, they were crowded together in their flight, and a great number were pressed to death in those narrow passages; nor indeed was the number fewer than twenty thousand that perished in this tumult.
Now there arose a quarrel between the Samaritans and the Jews on the occasion following: ... But when the principal of the Galileans were informed of what had been done, they came to Cumanus, and desired him to avenge the murder of those that were killed; but he was induced by the Samaritans, with money, to do nothing in the matter; upon which the Galileans were much displeased, and persuaded the multitude of the Jews to betake themselves to arms, and to regain their liberty, saying that slavery was in itself a bitter thing, but that when it was joined with direct injuries, it was perfectly intolerable, And when their principal men endeavored to pacify them, and promised to endeavor to persuade Cureanus to avenge those that were killed, they would not hearken to them, but took their weapons, and entreated the assistance of Eleazar, the son of Dineus, a robber, who had many years made his abode in the mountains, with which assistance they plundered many villages of the Samaritans. ...and after this time all Judea was overrun with robberies.
(א) רבי אוניא אמר: ד' שבועות השביען, כנגד ד' דורות, שדחקו על הקץ ונכשלו ואלו הן: אחד בימי עמרם, ואחד בימי דיניי, ואחד בימי בן כוזבא, ואחד בימי שותלח בן אפרים.
...Rabbi Onia said: They were adjured for four oaths corresponding to four generations who tried to hasten the end and came to grief, namely one in the days of Amram, once in the days of Dinai, once in the days of Ben Koziva and once in the days of Shutelah the son of Ephraim.
My opponent's troops ambushed me on the mountain; they flooded the heads of Zion as a raging river. The murderous sin of Nob was held fast against me; You set the snare, inciting my enemies. My people shrieked in the days of the rebel ben Dinai: "God is the Righteous One!"