Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 291:1

ואמר ר' יהושע בן לוי כל ימי עני רעים והא איכא שבתות וימים טובים כדשמואל דאמר שמואל שנוי וסת תחלת חולי

R. Joshua b. Levi further stated: 'All the days of the poor are evil? Surely there are Sabbaths and Festivals!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' During which days, at least, the poor were provided with wholesome and substantial meals. ');">¹</span> — [The explanation, however, is] according to Samuel. For Samuel said: A change of diet is the beginning of sickness'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For a poor man, who is in the habit of consuming all the week nothing but dry bread, the meat and the other expensive foodstuffs, with which he is supplied on Sabbaths and Festivals, cause indigestion. ');">²</span> It is written in the Book of Ben Sira: All the days of the poor are evil; Ben Sira says: The nights also. Lower than [all] roofs is his roof, [and] the rain of other roofs [pours down] upon his roof; on the height of mountains is his vineyard. [and] the earth of his vineyard [is washed down] into the vineyards [of others].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Not in our texts]. ');">³</span>

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