Commentary for Megillah 51:8
מיתיבי א"ר יהודה מעשה בבית הכנסת של טורסיים שהיה בירושלים שמכרוה לרבי אליעזר ועשה בה כל צרכיו והא התם דכרכים הוה ההיא בי כנישתא זוטי הוה ואינהו עבדוה
An objection was raised: R. Judah says: It happened with synagogue of the coppersmiths in Jerusalem that they sold it to R. Eliezer and he used it for his own purposes. And yet that was one in a large town? That was a very small synagogue, and they themselves had made it.
Rashi on Megillah
there name wasn’t copper-finer but really their occupation was to refine copper
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