Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 100:10

אלא שכר כותבין מאי טעמא א"ר יהושע בן לוי כ"ד תעניות ישבו אנשי כנסת הגדולה על כותבי ספרים תפילין ומזוזות שלא יתעשרו שאילמלי מתעשרין אין כותבין: ת"ר כותבי ספרים תפילין ומזוזות הן ותגריהן ותגרי תגריהן וכל העוסקין במלאכת שמים לאיתויי מוכרי תכלת אינן רואין סימן ברכה לעולם ואם עוסקין לשמה רואין:

Because people gaze at them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Market traders are exposed to the public gaze, and so to the evil eye, which is a potent source of misfortune. The other three incur the ill-will of people, the first because breeding small animals was generally frowned upon.');">²⁵</span> Our Rabbis taught: Four perutoth never contain a sign of blessing:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Perutah was the smallest coin. I.e., the monies earned by the four things enumerated.');">²⁶</span> the wages of clerks, the wages of interpreters,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Officials who spoke the Sabbath lectures of the Sages to the congregation; the Sage whispered his statements to the interpreter, and he explained them to the people. Also, those who publicly interpreted and translated the weekly readings of the Law on the Sabbath.');">²⁷</span> the profits of orphans,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Orphans' money was sometimes entrusted to people to trade with, and they kept half the profit for themselves for their labour.');">²⁸</span> and money that came from oversea countries.

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