Hey there and welcome back to Take One, the podcast that brings you just one soulful page of Talmud each day.

And today's Duff, Chululin 6 delivers its payload as some of the Talmud's best pages often do

with a comment that seems almost like a side.

The rabbis are continuing their discussion of the Qutim, or Samaritans,

a group of people whose observance of halachah and belonging to the

Jewish people is questionable and problematic. And then we get this nugget. The Gamar asks,

and what is the reason that the sages, Raban Gamliel in his court, issued a decree rendering it

prohibited to eat from the slaughter of Samaritans.

The Gamar answers, it is like that case involving Rabbi Shimon bin Nazar, in which

Rabbi Meir dispatched him to bring wine from the area of the Samaritans.

A certain elder found him and said to him, and put a knife to your throat if you are a man

given to appetite. Proverbs 23.2. As a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

Proverbs 23-2 as a warning to distance himself from them and not to drink their wine because

they were not reliable.

Rabbi Shimon bin Razar went and related those matters before Rabe Meir, and Rabe Meir

issued a decree against them.

A certain elder, you say, who, pray tell, is that mystery man?

Well, he has a Hebrew name, Hahu Saba, or literally and colloquially translating,

that grandpa guy.

And this is not the first or the last appearance of Hahu Saba in the Talmud. A figure by the same

name appears time and again to deliver wise and soulful pieces of advice. So wise, in fact,

that some rabbis believe that Hahu Saba is none other than, drum roll, please, the prophet Elijah, Eliao himself,

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