Related%20passage for Sanhedrin 185:19

אמר רבי תנחום דרש בר קפרא בציפורי מאי דכתיב (רות ג, יז) שש השעורים האלה נתן לי מאי שש השעורים אילימא שש שעורים ממש וכי דרכו של בועז ליתן מתנה שש שעורים

'But,' he remonstrated, 'Abraham [too] was only one.' 'No wicked were with him, so the fire was not empowered [to do any harm]; but here, I had wicked men with me, so the fire was enabled [to do its work],' he rejoined. Thus people say, 'If there are two dry billets and one wet one, the former burn the latter.' Now why was he [thus] punished? — R. Papa said: Because his sons married wives unfit for the priesthood; and he did not protest, as it is said, Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 3. ');">³⁵</span> Now, surely it was not his wont to wear filthy garments! But this intimates that his sons married women unfit for the priesthood and he did not forbid them. R. Tanhum said: Bar Kappara expounded in Sepphoris:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sepphoris, Heb. [H], derived its name from the fact that it was perched, bird-like, on a mountain. It is identified with the modern Saffusiah, a village north-west of Nazareth. ');">³⁶</span> What is meant by, These six of barley gave he to me?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Literal rendering of Ruth III, 17. ');">³⁷</span> What are 'six of barley'? Shall we say it is meant literally?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., six grains of barley. ');">³⁸</span> But was it Boaz's practice to give [only] six barley grains?

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