“The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some people, however, act as if they are exempt from giving charity to 100 beggars in the event that one might be fraudulent.”
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The site where hundreds of Jews held out against a Roman siege has become a modern symbol of Jewish heroism.
The grave of this second century rabbi is the site of a large annual pilgrimage.
For hundreds of years, most Persian musicians were Jews.