Hugras ben Levi74He was one of the Levites who would sing in the Temple. knew how to sing better than his brethren, but he did not want to teach it. They said about Hugras ben Levi, when he would open his mouth in song, he would insert his thumb into his mouth, his other thumb in the ground, and insert fingers between the two sides of his upper lip and raise his voice in a pleasant tune. He would produce all kinds of sounds until all his brethren the Levites would recoil and turn their heads back.75The sounds he produced were so startlingly beautiful that the other Levites could not help but turn their heads to look at him.
Pinḥas the dresser dressed a general and collected his wages.76Pinḥas would dress the High Priest. Lest one think that a dresser was unnecessary, as dressing does not require great skill, the midrash notes that even a general paid him for his services (Etz Yosef).