Bagian Terkait Amsal 10:17

What are “the families of the pestle stealers and the fig hackers”? ¹⁹⁵In the Babli 28a, the story is told of the Roman government “acting in the manner of Jeroboam”. In the Tosephta 3:7 it is “Greek government acting in the manner of Jeroboam.” In both Babylonian sources the occurrences are dated to the Second commonwealth, which is a more reasonable scenario. But when Jeroboam ben Nabat installed border guards on the roads which did not permit Israel to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, everybody who was qualified and sin-fearing in that generation brought his first fruits, put them in a basket, covered them with dried figs and took the pestle. He takes the basket on his shoulder and the pestle in his hand. When he reaches that guard-post they were asking him, where are you going? He answered him, I am only going to make these few dried figs into a single fig cake with this pestle in my hand. After he had passed this guard, he adorned them and brought them to Jerusalem. ¹⁹⁶Babli 28a, Tosephta 3:8, as before. Why does one say, the family of Salmai¹⁹⁷In both Babylonian texts, Salmay from Netofa. The reference probably is to “the family of Salma from Bethlehem and Netofa” (1Chr. 2:54), Calebites. This makes sense for the Babylonian texts which date the story to the Second Commonwealth, but not for the Yerushalmi version. the puller-down? But anybody who was volunteering logs and firewood for the altar brought wood and makes them into a kind of steps, assembles them into a kind of ladder, and puts them on his shoulder. When he reaches that guard he asks him, where are you going? He answers him, I am only going to bring two pigeon chicks from this dovecote over there using the ladder on my shoulder. After he had passed this guard, he disassembled {his package} and brought it to Jerusalem. Since they put themselves in danger for the meritorious deed that merited a good reputation in the world, and about them he says¹⁹⁸Prov. 10:7., the remembrance of the just is a blessing.