Talmud for Ketubot 134:4
תנו רבנן מעשה באנשי גליל העליון שלקחו לעני בן טובים אחד מציפורי ליטרא בשר בכל יום ליטרא בשר מאי רבותא אמר רב הונא ליטרא בשר משל עופות ואיבעית אימא בליטרא בשר ממש רב אשי אמר התם כפר קטן היה בכל יומא הוה מפסדי חיותא אמטולתיה:
Our Rabbis taught: It once happened that the people of Upper Galilee bought for a poor member of a good family of Tzippori a pound of meat every day. “A pound of meat”! What is so great about this? Huna replied: [It was] a pound of fowl’s meat. And if you want I might say: [They purchased] ordinary meat for a pound [of money]. Ashi replied: The place was a small village and everyday a beast had to be lost for his sake.
Jerusalem Talmud Peah
Also122Tosephta Peah 4:11, Ketubot67b., we have stated: It happened that Hillel took for a poor son of a prominent family a horse for his exercise and a slave to serve him. Also, it happened that the people of Galilee brought a Sepphoris pound of meat123In Babli and Tosephta, the text reads: “Daily a pound of meat for a poor man from Sepphoris”. We do not know how much a Sepphoris pound was; it is also mentioned in Sifri Deut. 317. Rashi in Babli Ketubot 67b reads: בליטרא בשר, “meat for a pound (of coins).” However, the pound as unit of currency is not found before Charlemagne. to an old man every day. Is this not impossible124That an old man would need so much meat.? It was because he did not eat except in company.
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