Chasidut for Shabbat 311:7

כתיב אפינקסיה דרבי יהושע בן לוי האי מאן דבחד בשבא יהי גבר ולא חדא ביה

It was recorded in R. Joshua b. Levi's notebook: He who [is born] on the first day of the week [Sunday] shall be a man without one [thing] in him — What does 'without one [thing] in him' mean? Shall we say, without one virtue?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'one (thing) in (his) favour'. ');">¹⁶</span> Surely R. Ashi said: I was born on the first day of the week! Hence it must surely mean, one vice. But Surely R. Ashi said: I and Dimi b. Kakuzta were born on the first day of the week: I am a king<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the head of the academy. ');">¹⁷</span> and he is the captain of thieves!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An anticipation of gangsterdom? ');">¹⁸</span>

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