Related%20passage for Nedarim 98:13

זימנא חדא גזר רבן שמעון בן גמליאל תעניתא ר' יהודה לא אתא לבי תעניתא אמרין ליה לא אית ליה כסויא שדר ליה גלימא ולא קביל

said to R. Judah. 'Your face is like that of a moneylender or pig breeder.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Their faces are always shining because of their great profits! ');">²⁴</span> He replied, 'Both of these are forbidden to Jews; but there are twenty-four conveniences between my house and the School, and every hour I visit one of them.' When R. Judah went to the Beth ha-Midrash,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' School House. ');">²⁵</span> he used to take a pitcher on his shoulders [to sit on], saying. 'Great is labour, for it honours the worker.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'its master'. Otherwise he would have had to sit on the floor. It is not clear whether the school was so deficient in equipment that this was really necessary, or he himself wished to shew his appreciation of labour. In the story of the deposition of R. Gamaliel (Ber. 50b-28a). It is stated that many additional seats were placed for the great accretion of new disciples, proving that it was not customary to sit on the floor. R. Judah belonged to the following generation. ');">²⁶</span> R. Simeon used to carry a basket upon his shoulders, saying likewise, 'Great is labour, for it honours the worker.' R. Judah's wife went out, brought wool, and made an embroidered cloak. On going to market she used to put it on, whilst when R. Judah went [to synagogue] to pray he used to wear it. When he donned it, he uttered the benediction, Blessed be He who hath robed me with a robe.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is no such benediction in the statutory liturgy, and R. Judah probably uttered this without the use of the Divine Name and without mention of God's sovereignty. Through the omission of these it is not really a benediction at all, hence R. Judah might recite it. (Real benedictions may not be uttered save where the Rabbis have prescribed them). ');">⁵⁰</span> Now, it happened once that R. Simeon b. Gamaliel proclaimed a fast,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Over and above the statutory fasts special fasts were proclaimed in times of drought or on account of national disasters, such as pestilence, evil decrees, etc.; Ta'an. 19a. ');">²⁸</span> but R. Judah did not attend the fast-service.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A special service was held: Ta'an. 15a. ');">²⁹</span> Being informed that he had nothing to wear, he [R. Simeon b. Gamaliel] sent him a robe, which he did not accept.

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