Why the Quail Tasted Like Tranquility to the Righteous and Torment to the Wicked

Midrash Aggadah, Numbers 11:32

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"And they spread them out, spreading" (Numbers 11:32) — for they required slaughtering. Do not read "va-yishtechu" (and they spread them out), but rather "va-yishchatu" (and they slaughtered). "Shalav" is written, but we read "salav." Said Rabbi Yose bar Hanina: The righteous eat it in tranquility (be-shalvah), but the wicked eat it and it seems to them like "salviyah."

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