Mesorat%20hashas for Taanit 41:1
משום דנפישי בני חילא דמחוזא
because there are so many in Mahuza.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A city in Mesopotamia on the river Tigris where Raba lived. [Soldiers would frequently be billeted in Mahuza on account of its proximity to the capital Ktesifon, v. Obermeyer, p. 174.]');"><sup>1</sup></span> Ilfa and R'Johanan studied together the Torah and they found themselves in great want and they said one to another, Let us go and engage in commerce so that of us may be fulfilled the verse, Howbeit there shall be no need among you.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XV, 4.');"><sup>2</sup></span> They went and sat down under a ruinous wall and while they were having their meal two ministering angels came and R'Johanan overheard one saying to the other, Let us throw this wall upon these [people] and kill them, because they forsake life eternal and occupy themselves with life temporal.
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