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Talmud which made me chuckle:
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi queried the verse in Proverbs, All the days of the poor are evil* - but surely they have Shabbat and festivals?
Shmuel said pessimistically, Change of diet leads to indigestion...
(Sanhedrin 101a, Proverbs 15:15)
Talmud which made me sad:
(As a small point in a long discussion about something else entirely) The world cannot exist without both males and females; happy is he whose children are male, and woe to he whose children are female.
(Sanhedrin 100b)
Ouch. Way to feel really alienated.
More Talmud which made me chuckle:
Ulla was in Babylon, and he saw dates were on sale. He exclaimed, "A tub of honey for a quarter, and yet the Babylonians don't occupy themselves with Torah study!"
During the night he suffered hideously from overeating, and he exclaimed, "A tub of knives for a quarter, and even so the Babylonians occupy themselves with Torah study!"
(Taanit 9b, and okay he said zuz and not quarter, but I translated for meaning, okay.)
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi queried the verse in Proverbs, All the days of the poor are evil* - but surely they have Shabbat and festivals?
Shmuel said pessimistically, Change of diet leads to indigestion...
(Sanhedrin 101a, Proverbs 15:15)
Talmud which made me sad:
(As a small point in a long discussion about something else entirely) The world cannot exist without both males and females; happy is he whose children are male, and woe to he whose children are female.
(Sanhedrin 100b)
Ouch. Way to feel really alienated.
More Talmud which made me chuckle:
Ulla was in Babylon, and he saw dates were on sale. He exclaimed, "A tub of honey for a quarter, and yet the Babylonians don't occupy themselves with Torah study!"
During the night he suffered hideously from overeating, and he exclaimed, "A tub of knives for a quarter, and even so the Babylonians occupy themselves with Torah study!"
(Taanit 9b, and okay he said zuz and not quarter, but I translated for meaning, okay.)
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