The Story of Antoninas andR. [Jehudaha-Nassi] who preferred the cold meals of the Sabbath. The Rabbi explained to Antoninus that the superiority of Sabbath meals over those of the week-day was due to the blessing which rests upon that da}'.

121a. A man left money with Bar Temalian, who afterwards denied having received it. When asked to take an oath, he put the money in a stick which he gave to the owner to keep for him, whilst he swore that he had returned the money. The stick dropped out of the hand of the man who was holding it and the money fell out.

121b. A dinar belonging to a woman fell into her friend's dough without her noticing it. Asked whether she had found it she swore by the life of her husband and two children that she did not have it and in consequence they died. When the bread was broken at the meal of mourning the monej fell out.