Rabbah bar bar Chanah and the Porters' Cloaks
Porters break Rabbah bar bar Chanah's wine barrels and he takes their cloaks, but Rav tells him to return them and even pay their wages, beyond the letter of the law.
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Porters break Rabbah bar bar Chanah's wine barrels and he takes their cloaks, but Rav tells him to return them and even pay their wages, beyond the letter of the law.
Porters break Rabbah bar bar Chanah’s barrels of wine. Rav tells him to forgo his claim and, because the workers are poor, to pay them their wages too.
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An Arab merchant shows Rabbah bar bar Chanah the smoking cracks where Korach's men were swallowed, and he hears them cry, "Moshe and his Torah are true."
Rabba bar bar Channa describes a day-old Re'em as big as Mount Tabor. The Vilna Gaon reads it as a warning about the student who skips the basics.
An animal with a partly cut windpipe comes before Rav, who leaves it undecided; Rabba bar bar Channa then rules it kosher and even buys its meat.