Taanath Shiloh and the Eye of Joseph That Took No Stolen Pleasure

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 28:2

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"Taanath-shiloh" (Joshua 16:6). Rabbi Chama bar Chanina says: that anyone who sees Shiloh sighs [mit'aneach] over the eating of the holy offerings [that ceased there]. Rabbi Abbahu said: "Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring [alei ayin]" (Genesis 49:22) - the eye [ayin] that did not wish to take pleasure in what was not its own, let it merit and eat to the fill of its eye.

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JosephPurityReward And Punishment

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