Rabbi Yochanan HaChorani and the Olives
Starving in a famine, Rabbi Yochanan HaChorani refuses Rabbi Tzadok's moist olives with 'I don't eat olives,' until assured they are tahor.
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Starving in a famine, Rabbi Yochanan HaChorani refuses Rabbi Tzadok's moist olives with 'I don't eat olives,' until assured they are tahor.
When a powerful noblewoman tries to entice him, Rabbi Tzadok climbs into her lit oven, teaching her how severe the sin is, and she leaves him alone.