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He [Rabban Yohanan] said unto them: go forth and observe which is the right way to which a man should cleave? Rabbi Eliezer said, a good eye; Rabbi Joshua said, a good companion; Rabbi Yose said, a good neighbor; Rabbi Shimon said, foresight. Rabbi Elazar said, a good heart. He [Rabban Yohanan] said to them: I prefer the words of Elazar ben Arach, for in his words your words are included. He [Rabban Yohanan] said unto them: go forth and observe which is the evil way which a man should shun? Rabbi Eliezer said, an evil eye; Rabbi Joshua said, an evil companion; Rabbi Yose said, an evil neighbor…
Pirkei Avot 2:9
And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi says: One may give a cup of blessing to recite the blessing
of Grace after Meals
only to
someone with
a good eye,
i.e., a generous person,
as it is stated: “One who has a good eye will be blessed [
yevorakh
], for he gives of his bread to the poor”
(Proverbs 22:9).
Do not read
it: “
Will be blessed.” Rather,
read it:
Will bless [
yevarekh
].
Sotah 38b:10
Rabbi Yosei, son of Rabbi Ḥanina, said: The Torah was given
initially
only to Moses and his descendants, as it is stated: “Write for you”
(Exodus 34:27), and it is also stated:
“Hew for you”
(Exodus 34:1), meaning:
Just as their waste is yours, so too their writing is yours.
However,
Moses treated
the Torah
with generosity and gave it to the Jewish people. And about him, the verse says: “He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed,
as he gives of his bread to the poor” (Proverbs 22:9).
Nedarim 38a:4
§ The mishna teaches:
Just as
the
halakha
is that the owner of the field and the one cultivating it
divide the produce, so
too the
halakha
is that
they divide the stubble and the straw. Rav Yosef said
with regard to this statement:
In Babylonia
those who enter into such arrangements
are accustomed not to give stubble to the sharecropper.
The Gemara asks:
What is the
practical
difference
resulting from the assertion that this is the practice in Babylonia? The Gemara answers: The difference is
that if there is a person
in…
Bava Metzia 103b:9
The Gemara relates that
when Rav Dimi came
from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia
he said: It was the Shabbat
of
Rav Beivai
to serve food to the students,
and Rabbi Ami and Rabbi Asi happened
to come to his house.
He placed before them a basket of fruits
without removing the leaves and the stems.
And I do not know whether
he did so
because he holds
that it
is prohibited
to select
food from waste
when it is not for immediate consumption,
or whether
he did so
because he intended to
show
generosity to
his guests by…
Shabbat 74a:6
Rav raises a dilemma: How
does one acquire
a gift,
i.e., is it necessary for the giver to say: Go, take possession and thereby acquire?
Shmuel said: What dilemma is raised to Abba,
i.e., Rav?
Now
one could say the following:
And what
is the
halakha
with regard to
a sale, where
the buyer
is giving money
to the seller?
If
the seller
says to
the buyer:
Go, take possession and
thereby
acquire
the property, the acquisition
does
take effect, but
if
he did
not
say this, it does
not…
Bava Batra 53a:2
And Rav Ḥisda said: A student of a Torah academy who does not have much bread should not cut it into thin slices;
rather, he should eat what he has in one helping.
And Rav Ḥisda said: A student of a Torah academy who does not have much bread should not break
it for guests.
What is the reason? As he will not do so in a generous manner. And Rav Ḥisda said: Originally, I would not break
bread
until I placed my hand in the entire dish
to assure
that I found
that there was enough bread
to meet my needs.
Shabbat 140b:8
The Gemara discusses the reverse case: If one
sold
the
trees and left
the ownership of the
land for himself,
the
halakha
depends on
the
outcome of the
dispute of Rabbi Akiva and the Rabbis. According to Rabbi Akiva, who says: One who sells, sells generously,
the buyer
has
ownership of the land surrounding the trees, as the presumption is that the seller included it in the sale.
According to the Rabbis,
who say: One who sells, sells sparingly, the buyer
does not have
ownership of the land surrounding the trees…
Bava Batra 37b:2
Oshaya continued: There is
a parable
that illustrates this,
involving a bride who is in her father’s home
and has not yet been seen by her bridegroom.
As long as her eyes are beautiful, her body need not be examined,
as certainly she is beautiful. However, if
her eyes are bleary [
terutot
], her entire body requires examination.
So too, if the leaders of the generation are flawed, it is a sign that the entire generation is unworthy. By means of this parable, Oshaya was hinting that rain was withheld from the entire nation due to the evil committed by the…
Taanit 24a:13
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