On Communal Prayer

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…

R. Isaac said to R. Naḥman: Why did the master not come to the synagogue to pray? [R. Naḥman] said to him: I was [weak and] unable [to come. R. Isaac] said to him: Let the master gather ten…