Meals at the Synagogue
y. Shabbat 1:2, 2c
R. Miasha and R. Samuel bar R. Isaac were sitting and eating in one of the upper synagogues.
y. Mo’ed Katan 2:3, 81b
R. Yoḥanan used to go to the assembly hall in the morning, collect the crumbs, and eat them, saying, “May my part be with those who ate here in the evening.”
Translated by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer.
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Reprinted 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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