Bar Kaparas Charity to Shipwrecked

Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 300

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300. Bar Kaparas Charity to Shipwrecked. -

Eccles. R. XI, 1 § 1. Farhi, O. P. Ill, f. 38. Yalk. Sip. II, p. 123. Arabic Maase Nissim, f. 70.

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Story of Eliezer b.Sham- ma and shipwrecked Edomite, afterwards Emperor.

Eccles. R. XI, i § i. cf. Maase Buch No. 239. Helvicus, Historien, I, ch. 43, p. 200.

Codd. G. 130, No. 2; ch. 184, No. 172.

Themes

Kings Charity Tzedakah Kabbalah Wisdom

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