Reference for Nedarim 99:1

דלי ציפתא ואמר ליה לשלוחא חזי מאי איכא מיהו לא ניחא לי דאיתהני בהדין עלמא

Lifting up the mat [upon which he was sitting], he exclaimed to the messengers, 'See what I have here,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' My a miracle, upon which he had relied, the place was filled with gold. ');">¹</span> but I do not wish to benefit from this world.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This story shows that R. Judah, i.e., R. Judah b. Ila'i, was extremely poor. In general the scholars of that generation lived in great poverty, as a result of the Hadrianic persecutions. V. A. Buchler, The Jewish Community of Sepphoris, pp. 67 seq. ');">²</span>

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