The Shabbat Journey the Bear Protected and the Robbers Missed

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Laodicean Who Grew Rich by Saving the Best for ShabbatThere was a man who lived in the Greek city of Laodicea, and he had a rule he followed every week of his life. Whenever he found some particularly fine food in

Hebraic Literature (1901)Joseph the Sabbath Lover and the Jewel in the FishThere was once a man named Joseph who was famous in his city for one thing above all others: he honored the Shabbat. Every Friday his table groaned under fish a

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Cow That Refused to Plow on ShabbatThere was once a pious Jew in one of the villages of late antique Israel who kept a cow to till his fields. Six days a week the cow worked, and on the seventh d

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Dream That Foiled a Blood Libel on PassoverAn apostate, a Jew who had abandoned his people, invented a blood libel and decided to prove it. He found a bird, slaughtered it, drained its blood into a small

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Children Who Fell in the Well on a Sabbath and LivedA group of children in a Jewish village were playing on Shabbat. As the sun rose higher over the day of rest, they wandered too close to the edge of an old well

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Pearl in the Fish and the Honor of ShabbatThere was a man called Yosef Mokir Shabbat, "Yosef the Honorer of the Sabbath." Every Friday he spent whatever he had on the best food available for the Shabbat

The Shabbat Journey the Bear Protected and the Robbers Missed

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