Jewish%20thought for Bava Batra 32:13

אמר רבי יוחנן חמש עבירות עבר אותו רשע באותו היום בא על נערה מאורסה והרג את הנפש וכפר בעיקר וכפר בתחיית המתים ושט את הבכורה

and he was faint.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XXV, 29. ');">²⁴</span> It has been taught [in connection with this] that that was the day on which Abraham our father died, and Jacob our father made a broth of lentils to comfort his father Isaac. Why was it of lentils? — In the West they say in the name of Rabbah b. Mari: Just as the lentil has no mouth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., not cleft, like other kinds of pulse. ');">²⁵</span>

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