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this light bread” (Numbers 21:5), despite the fact it was the highest-quality food. Moses further called them children of ingrates, as it is written that after sinning and eating from the tree of knowledge, Adam said: “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat” (G
Yet even Moses our teacher, who said this to the Jewish people, did not allude to the Jewish people until after 40 years that they should have stated this request, as it is stated: “And I have led you 40 years in the wilderness” (Deuteronomy 29:4), which shows that Moses was speaking 40 years after
R' Yoḥanan says in the name of R' Bana’a: What is the meaning of that which is written: “Happy are you that sow beside all waters, that send forth freely the feet of the ox and the donkey” (Isaiah 32:20)? Happy are you Israel; when they, i.e., the Jewish people, engage in Torah study and in acts of
With regard to the continuation of the verse: “That send forth freely the feet of the ox and the donkey,” one of the rabbis of the school of Eliyahu taught: A person should always make himself subjugated to matters of Torah like an ox to a yoke and like a donkey to a burden.
§ After concluding its long introduction, the Talmud analyzes the Mishnah. The Mishnah taught that on the 3 days before the festivals of non-Jews it is prohibited to engage with them in business or to lend them items. The Talmud asks: And is it the practice of a non-Jew to buy an animal so far in ad