A man must not leave a synagogue before the Hazan has finished the Ameedah nor pass it by, but enter. Once a man was thereby saved from threatening death to which he was sent cunningly by the king as the result of the envy of his personal enemies, for passing a synagogue, he entered and stayed awhile. His chief
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enemy who proceded to the limekiln whither the Jew had been sent, was seized by the master of the kiln and burned instead of the man.