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that any se’a I wish I will take. He took a large palm basket, smeared it with tar, and overturned it upon his head, and went, and said to R' Yehuda HaNasi: Let the Master measure for me the 40 se’a of wheat that I am owed by you. R' Yehuda HaNasi laughed at this and said to him: Did I not warn you
The Talmud relates another story. Bar Kappara said to the daughter of R' Yehuda HaNasi, whose husband’s name was ben Elasa: Tomorrow I will drink wine at your father’s dancing and your mother’s singing [kirekanei]. Ben Elasa was the son-in-law of R' Yehuda HaNasi and was a very wealthy man. R' Yehu
Bar Kappara said to R' Yehuda HaNasi at the wedding: What is the meaning of the word to’eva, abomination, used by the Torah to describe homosexual sex (see Leviticus 18:22)? Whatever it was that R' Yehuda HaNasi said to bar Kappara in explanation, claiming that this is the meaning of to’eva, bar Ka
When they came to drink another cup, bar Kappara said to him: What is the meaning of the word tevel, perversion, as in the verse: “Neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto; it is perversion [tevel]” (Leviticus 18:23)? R' Yehuda HaNasi said various explanations to him, as h
R' Yehuda HaNasi said to bar Kappara: And what is the meaning of the word zimma, lewdness, as in the verse: “They are near kinswomen; it is lewdness [zimma]” (Leviticus 18:17), stated with regard to a man who has sex with a woman and her daughter? He said to him: Perform for me as you did the previ