Jewish%20thought for Bava Metzia 228:5
ת"ר (דברים כד, יב) ואם איש עני הוא לא תשכב בעבוטו הא עשיר שכיב מאי קאמר אמר רב ששת הכי קאמר ואם איש עני הוא לא תשכב ועבוטו אצלך הא עשיר שכיב ועבוטו אצלך
he answered. He then led him into Paradise and said to him: Remove thy robe and collect and take away some of these leaves. So he gathered them and carried them off. As he was coming out, he heard a remark, 'Who would so consume his [portion in] the world [to come] as Rabbah b. Abbuha has done?' Thereupon he scattered and threw them away. Yet even so, since he had carried them in his robe, it had absorbed their fragrance, and so he sold it for twelve thousand <i>denarii</i>, which he distributed among his sons-in-law. Our Rabbis taught: <i>And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep in his pledge</i>:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXIV, 12. E.V.; 'with his pledge'. ');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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