Commentary for Shabbat 303:6

חזייה דלא סיים מסאניה א"ל דעל סוס מלך דעל חמור בן חורין ודמנעלי בריגלוהי בר איניש דלא הא ולא הא דחפיר וקביר טב מיניה א"ל גוזא גוזא תלת אמרת לי תלת שמעת הדרת פנים זקן שמחת לב אשה (תהלים קכז, ג) נחלת ה' בנים ברוך המקום שמנעך מכולם א"ל קרחא מצויינא אמר ליה עיקרא שליפא תוכחה

and let your food enter. Until the age of forty food is more beneficial; thenceforth drink is more beneficial. A certain eunuch [gawzaah] said to R. Joshua b. Karhah [Baldhead]: 'How far is it from here to Karhina [Baldtown]? 'As far as from here to Gawzania [Eunuchtown],' he replied.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Both fictitious places, of course, playfully formed from their names and persons. ');">¹⁵</span> Said the Sadducee to him, 'A bald buck is worth four <i>denarii</i>.' 'A goat, if castrated, is worth eight,' he retorted. Now, he [the Sadducee] saw that he [R. Joshua] was not wearing shoes, [whereupon] he remarked, 'He [who rides] on a horse is a king, upon an ass, is a free man, and he who has shoes on his feet is a human being; but he who has none of these, one who is dead<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'one for whom a grave is dug'. ');">¹⁶</span>

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