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One day R' Yosei bar Avin heard Rav Ashi studying and reciting the following statement. Shmuel said: With regard to one who removes a fish from the sea on Shabbat, when an area on the skin of the fish the size of a sela coin has dried up, he is liable for violating the prohibition against slaughte
Rav Ashi said to him: And didn’t the Master sit before and frequent the study hall of R' Yosei from Yokrat? R' Yosei bar Avin said to him: Yes. Rav Ashi said to him: And what is the reason that the Master left him and came here? R' Yosei bar Avin said to him: I was concerned and departed because
The Talmud asks: What is the incident involving his son? One day R' Yosei from Yokrat hired day laborers to work his field. It grew late and he did not bring them food. The workers said to the son of R' Yosei from Yokrat: We are starving. They were sitting under a fig tree, so the son said: Fig tr
In the meantime, his father came and said to the workers: Do not be angry with me for being late, as I was engaged in a mitzva, and until just now I was traveling for that purpose and could not get here any sooner. They said to him: May God satisfy you just as your son satisfied us and gave us food
The Talmud asks: What is the incident involving his daughter? He had a very beautiful daughter. One day R' Yosei from Yokrat saw a certain man piercing a hole in the hedge surrounding his property and looking at his daughter. R' Yosei said to him: What is this? The man said to him: my teacher! if I