Scribal Exercise

And teach them to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19–21): your sons and not your daughters, the words of R. Yosi b. Akiva. On the basis of the verse at hand they [the rabbis] have said: When a child…

For R. Judah said [that] Rav said: That man shall truly be remembered for good, and Joshua b. Gamla is his name. For without him the Torah would have been forgotten in Israel. For in the beginning, he…

R. Yudan said, “[The matter may be compared] to a king who handed his son over to a pedagogue, and he led him into evil ways. The king became angry with his son and killed him. The king said, ‘Nobody…

2:5. R. Simeon b. Yoḥai said, “[This may be compared] to a king who had an only son. Every day he instructed a member of his household and said to him: ‘Make sure that my son eats! Make sure that my…

Those who teach children [in the courtyard of an insula] and those who prepare banquets for each other, their neighbors can protest against them. This one can say to him, “They come and go; they ask…

A maidservant of Bar Pata was passing by a synagogue and she saw the teacher hit a child more than was necessary. She said to him, “Let that man be…