Exempla of the Rabbis, Tale 163

Midrash Aggadah Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 163
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R. Hanina b. Dosa told his wife that heaven would provide for the Sabbath meals, and bade his daughter light a wick in a vessel filled with vinegar; it burned. The oven which his wife had heated, although she believed it to be empty, was found, when opened, to be full of bread.

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