R. Tarfon was beaten by his superintendent, who
finding him in the vineyard took him for a trespasser, he
not telling who he was through his meekness.
79 ~
no. a man overheard a dialogue between two dead women
in the burial ground who foretold the future. He profited
by it. On other occasion he overheard that one of them was
buried in a red carpet. His wife blamed the mother of the
dead woman for it. From that moment the dead spake
no longer in his hearing. v
111.-112. The story of the three men one of whom stole
the money belonging to the others. They were brought
before King Solomon who detected the thief by the story of
a betrothed girl who kept her oath to visit her first beloved,
and was sent to him by the man she was now forced to marry,
decked in jewels. She was waylaid by a robber but was
allowed to go free when he heard of the magnanimity of the
second bridegroom. The thief praises the magnanimity of
the robber who had not deprive her of one jewel thereby
not showing his greed for the other's money.
109. R. Tarfon was beaten by his superintendent, who
finding him in the vineyard took him for a trespasser, he
not telling who he was through his meekness.
79 ~
no. a man overheard a dialogue between two dead women
in the burial ground who foretold the future. He profited
by it. On other occasion he overheard that one of them was
buried in a red carpet. His wife blamed the mother of the
dead woman for it. From that moment the dead spake
no longer in his hearing. v
111.-112. The story of the three men one of whom stole
the money belonging to the others. They were brought
before King Solomon who detected the thief by the story of
a betrothed girl who kept her oath to visit her first beloved,
and was sent to him by the man she was now forced to marry,
decked in jewels. She was waylaid by a robber but was
allowed to go free when he heard of the magnanimity of the
second bridegroom. The thief praises the magnanimity of
the robber who had not deprive her of one jewel thereby
not showing his greed for the other's money.
