Tosefta for Ketubot 134:5
ההוא דאתא לקמיה דרבי נחמיה אמר ליה במה אתה סועד א"ל בבשר שמן ויין ישן רצונך שתגלגל עמי בעדשים גלגל עמו בעדשים ומת אמר אוי לו לזה שהרגו נחמיה אדרבה אוי לו לנחמיה שהרגו לזה מיבעי ליה אלא איהו הוא דלא איבעי ליה לפנוקי נפשיה כולי האי
A certain man once came in front of R. Nehemiah [to ask for maintenance]. He said to him, “What do you dine on?” He replied, “Fat meat and old wine.” “Will you consent to live with me on lentils?” He lived with him on lentils and died. [R. Nehemiah] said, “Oy, for this man whom Nehemiah has killed.” On the contrary, he should [have said], “Oy for Nehemiah who killed this man”! Rather, he should not have spoiled himself to such an extent.
Tosefta Peah
[If a poor person] was accustomed to using golden vessels [and presumably still has the vessels but no money], he sells them and uses silver utensils. [If he was accustomed to] silver vessels, he sells them and uses copper vessels. [If he was accustomed to] copper vessels, he sells them and uses glass vessels. They said, a family of Beit Nevaltah was in Jerusalem that was descended from the sons of Ornan the Jebusite (see I Chron. 21:20). The Sages brought to them (or they brought to the Sages) six hundred golden shekels (שש not שלש per Erfurt manuscript, i.e., the amount David paid Ornan for his threshing-floor, the future site of the Temple, see I Chron. 21:25) but they did not want to take them outside of Jerusalem. [Note: Presumably, the family was now impoverished, and the Sages sought to return them to their previous status, indeed the status of their ancestor Ornan the Jebusite.]
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