Jewish%20thought for Pesachim 100:12

בני חוזאי נהגי דמפרשי חלה מארוזא אתו ואמרו ליה לרב יוסף אמר להו ניכלה זר באפייהו איתיביה אביי דברים המותרים ואחרים נהגו בהן איסור

Our Rabbis taught: Those who write Scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzoth, they, their traders and their traders' traders,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' All who trade in these, whether directly or indirectly.');">³³</span> and all who engage [in trade] in sacred commodities,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'work'.');">³⁴</span> which includes the sellers of blue wool,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Wool dyed blue for insertion in garments as fringes; v. Num. XV, 38.');">³⁵</span> never see a sign of blessing. But if they engage [therein] for its own sake,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To benefit the community, profit being a secondary consideration.');">³⁶</span> they do see [a sign of blessing]. The citizens of Beyshan<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Beyshan (Scythopolis) in Galilee (Jast.) . [Beyshan was, however, far too distant from Tyre to enable its inhabitants to go there and back in one day. It must therefore be located in the neighbourhood of Tyre and it is identified with the village at Abasiya, N.E. of Tyre (Hurwitz, Palestine, p. 112) .]');">³⁷</span> were accustomed not to go from Tyre to Sidon<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the coast of Palestine. Friday was market day at Sidon (Rashi) .');">³⁸</span> on the eve of the Sabbath. Their children went to R'Johanan and said to him, For our fathers this was possible; for us it is impossible. Said he to them, Your fathers have already taken it upon themselves, as it is said, Hear my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. I, 8.');">³⁹</span> The inhabitants of Hozai<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Known to-day as Khuzistan, in S. W. Persia; Obermeyer, pp. 204ff.');">⁴⁰</span> were accustomed to separate hallah on rice.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is necessary by law.');">⁴¹</span> [When] they went and told it to R'Joseph he said to them, Let a lay Israelite eat it in their presence:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hallah may be eaten by a priest only. Thus he intimated that this was not hallah.');">⁴²</span> Abaye raised an objection against him: Things which are permitted, yet others treat them as forbidden,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'practise a prohibition in connection with them'.');">⁴³</span>

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