Honoring the Ḥazzan
It is stated: one drinks ten cups [of wine] in the house of a mourner—two before the meal, five during the meal, and three after the meal. These are the three after the meal: one for Grace, one for those who exercise charity, and one for those who console mourners. When Rabban [Simeon ben] Gamaliel died, they added another three: one for the ḥazzan of the community, one for the head of the community, and one for Rabban Gamaliel. But when the rabbinical authorities saw that they regularly got drunk, they decreed and returned it to the original status.
Adapted from the translation of Heinrich W. Guggenheimer.
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Adapted from The Jerusalem Talmud, ed. and trans. Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999–2015), https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Talmud/Yerushalmi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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