Commentary for Nedarim 100:11

יומא דמחייך ביה רבי אתיא פורענותא לעלמא א"ל לבר קפרא לא תבדיחן ויהיבנא לך ארבעין גריוי חיטי א"ל ליחזי מר

[which weakened him so] that his household tore their hair [in despair]. We have learnt elsewhere: If one is working among kelusfin, [Lesbian figs], he may not eat of benoth sheba';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A different species of figs. The reference is to Deut. XXIII, 25: When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes until thy fill at thin own pleasure. The Rabbis interpret this as referring to workers, who may eat any of the fruit — not particularly grapes — upon which they are engaged, but must confine themselves thereto. ');">⁸</span> among benoth sheba', he may not eat of kelusfin. What are kelusfin? — A species of figs of which pap is made. A certain man once gave his slave to his friend to teach him a thousand different ways of making pap, but he taught him only eight hundred. So he summoned him to a lawsuit before Rabbi. Rabbi remarked, 'Our fathers said, "We have forgotten prosperity,"9 but we have never even seen it!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it is extraordinary that in these bad times he should know as many as he did. ');">¹⁰</span> Rabbi made a wedding feast for his son Simeon, (and did not invite Bar Kappara).<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The bracketed phrase is transposed its our editions. ');">¹¹</span> He wrote above the banqueting-hall,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where the festivities took place. ');">¹²</span> 'Twenty-four thousand myriad <i>denarii</i> have been expended on these festivities 'Thereupon Bar Kappara said, 'If it is thus with those who transgress His will,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A reference to the wrong done in not inviting him. ');">¹³</span> how much more so with those who do His will!' When he [subsequently] invited him, he observed, 'If it is thus with those who do His will in this world, how much more so [will it be] in the world to come!' On the day that Rabbi laughed, punishment would come upon the world.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rabbi suffered internal pains for thirteen years, during which there was never a drought. — B.M. 85a. ');">¹⁴</span> So he said to Bar Kappara [who was a humorist]. 'Do not make me laugh, and I will give you forty measures of wheat.' He replied. 'But let the Master see

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