Rabbi Eliezer and the Wise Woman’s Question
A wise woman asks Rabbi Eliezer why the Golden Calf worshippers got different punishments. His cryptic answer about the spindle teaches that the process matters.
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A wise woman asks Rabbi Eliezer why the Golden Calf worshippers got different punishments. His cryptic answer about the spindle teaches that the process matters.
Rabbi Eliezer calls on a carob tree, a canal and the walls of the beis midrash to prove his ruling, but Rabbi Yehoshua and the Sages refuse to accept such proofs.