The Baker Who Swore on Her Child's Life

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Dinar the Woman Baked Into Charity by AccidentA man left a dinar, a single silver coin, with a woman for safekeeping. She didn't want to forget where she had put it. She dropped it into a jar of flour and w

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The False Oath, the Dinar, and the Bread of MourningTwo women lived as close friends in one of the towns of late antique Israel. One day one of them was kneading dough at her neighbor's house, and a gold dinar sl

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Town Where a Single Lie Killed a ChildRabbi Rabina, a fifth-century Babylonian Sage, once learned from Rabbi Tabut (also called Tabyome) that there was a place on earth where truth was not an ethica

Mekhilta DeRabbi YishmaelGreat is the faith wherein Israel believed in Him who spokeThe Mekhilta exalts the power of emunah, faith, as the decisive merit that brought Israel its highest moments. Commenting on the crossing of the Sea, the sages

Mekhilta DeRabbi YishmaelThus, the Wicked Pharaoh, Who Subjugated Israel, the Holy One Drowned(Exodus 17:14) "And the L–rd said to Moses: Write this as a remembrance in the book and place it in the ears of Joshua": The early elders said: So is it with al

Mekhilta DeRabbi Shimon Ben YochaiYou Shall Not Afflict the Widow and the Fatherless"You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child" (Exodus 22:21). The sages first asked whether the prohibition stops at these two. Are only the widow and t

The Baker Who Swore on Her Child's Life

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