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Abba Shaul b. Botnit
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§ The mishna recounted
an incident involving Abba Shaul ben Botnit,
a Sage who was also a grocer, who would fill his measures on the eve of a Festival and give them to his customers on the Festival. A
tanna
taught
in a
baraita
:
He would do this even on
the intermediate days of
a Festival, in order to
prevent
dereliction
of Torah study in
the study hall.
Since he wanted to spend most of his day in the study hall and not have to interrupt his study to carry out measurements, he would measure for his customers at night…
Beitzah 29a:11-12
It was stated: “Rebbi Eleazar ben Rebbi Ṣadoq and Abba Shaul ben Botnit were grocers in Jerusalem. They used to fill their measuring vessels on the eve of a holiday and give them to the customers on the holiday. Rebbi Ḥananiah ben Aqabiah says, they also acted in the same way on the intermediate days of the holiday because of the emptying of the measuring vessels. Also he collected 300 amphoras, and his colleague collected 300 amphoras. The Sages said to them, you did not have to do this, but since you were stringent with yourselves, they should be used for public needs…
Jerusalem Talmud Beitzah 3:8:3
It is taught
in a
baraita
that
Abba Shaul says
the following,
and some say
that
Rabbi Yoḥanan
said it:
I used to be a gravedigger. Once I ran after a deer, and I entered the thighbone of a corpse; and
it was so large that
I ran after
the deer for
three parasangs
inside the thighbone,
and
although
I did not reach
the
deer,
the
thighbone did not end. When I came back
and related this to the Sages,
they said to me: It was
evidently the thighbone
of Og, king of Bashan,
a known giant…
Niddah 24b:18-19
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