Jewish%20thought for Shabbat 302:12

ופליגא דשמואל דאמר שמואל אין בין העולם הזה לימות המשיח אלא שיעבוד מלכיות בלבד שנא' (דברים טו, יא) כי לא יחדל אביון מקרב הארץ

It was taught, R. Eleazar ha-Kappar said: Let one always pray to be spared this fate [poverty], for if he does not descend [to poverty] his son will, and if not his son, his grandson, for it is said, because that for [bi-gelal] this thing, [etc.].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 10. ');">²⁰</span> The School of R. Ishmael taught: It is a wheel [galal] that revolves in the world.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Coming to all people or their descendants; Gelal is thus connected with galgal. ');">²¹</span>

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