bread, so as to have some ready in case any one should come
begging; that the women should wear a girdle round the waist for decency
sake; that they should comb their hair before bathing; that peddlers
should hawk their perfumes about the streets in order that women should
supply themselves with such things as will attract and please their
husbands; and that certain unfortunates (see Lev. xv.) should bathe
themselves before they came to the public reading of the law.

_Bava Kama_, fol. 82, col. 1.

Ten things are said about Jerusalem:--(1.) No mortgaged house was
eventually alienated from its original owner (which was the case
elsewhere in Jewry). (2.) Jerusalem never had occasion to behead a
heifer by way of expiation for an unproved murder (see Deut. xxi. 1-9).
(3.) She never could be regarded as a repudiated city (Deut. xiii. 12,
etc.). (4.) No appearance of plagues in any house at Jerusalem rendered
the house unclean, because the words of Lev. xiv. 34, are "your
possession," an expression which could not apply to Jerusalem, as it had
never been portioned among the ten tribes. (5.) Projecting cornices and
balconies were not to be built in the city. (6.) Limekilns were not to
be erected there. (7.) No refuse heaps were allowed in any quarter. (8.)
No orchards or gardens were permitted, excepting certain flower-gardens,
which had been there from the times of the earlier prophets. (9.) No
cocks were reared in Jerusalem. (10.) No corpse ever remained over night
within its walls; the funeral had to take place on the day of the
decease.

Ibid., fol. 82, col. 2.

In the Book of Psalms David included those which were composed by ten
elders:--Adam (Ps. cxxxix.); Melchizedek (Ps. cx.); Abraham (Ps.
lxxxix.); Moses (Ps. xc.); the others alluded to were by Heman,
Jeduthun, Asaph, and the three sons of Korah.

_Bava Bathra_, fol. 14, col. 2.

A man once overheard his wife telling her daughter that, though she had
ten sons, only one of them could fairly claim her husband as his father.
After the father's death it was found that he had bequeathed all his
property to one son, but that the testament did not mention his name.
The question therefore, arose, which of the ten was intended? So they
came one and all to Rabbi Benaah and asked him to arbitrate between
them. "Go," said he to them, "and beat at your father's grave, until he
rises to tell you to which of you it was that he left the property." All
except one did so; and h