March 22, 2022
Thought for Today
“Our masters taught: Who is wealthy? He who is content
with his wealth – so said Rabbi Meir.
But Rabbi Tarfon said: He who has
one hundred vineyards, one hundred fields, and one hundred slaves working in then. Rabbi Akiva said: He who has a wife comely in deeds,
Rabbi Yose said: He who has a privy not far from his table.” 11
Footnote 11: “At that time, privies were out in the fields. B. Shah 25b.
From page 602 in The Book of Legends Sefer Ha – Aggadah, legends from the Talmud and Midrash, edited by Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, translated by Willim G, Braude
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