Negaim, chap. 2, mish. 3.
The twig of a bunch without any grapes is clean; but if there remained one grape on it, it is unclean.
Okzin, chap, i, mish. 5.
Not every man deserves to have two tables.
Berachoth, fol. 5, col. 2.
The meaning of this rather ambiguous sentence may either be, that all men are not able to succeed in more enterprises than one at a time; or that it is not given to every one to make the best both of the present world and of that which is to come.
Abba Benjamin used to say "There are two things about which I have all my life been much concerned: that my prayer should be offered in front of my bed, and that the position of my bed should be from north to south."
Ibid., fol. 5, col. 2.
There are several reasons which may be adduced to account for Abba Benjamin's anxiety, and they are all more or less connected with the important consequences which were supposed to depend upon determining his position with reference to the Shechinah, which rested in the east or the west.