Teaching, Blessing, and Eating in the Synagogue
R. Abbahu was sitting teaching in the fortified synagogue in Caesarea; there was a coffin there. There came the time for lifting the hands, and they did not ask him. There came the time for eating, and they asked him. He said to them: For the lifting of hands you did not ask me, for eating you are asking me? When they heard this, each one was taking himself away and fled.
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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