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99. R. Akiba saw a man fall into the sea and found himafterwards on land. His charity had saved him, the waveshaving carried him ashore.

100. Benjamin supported a widow with seven children. Histeward was that his life was prolonged by 22 years.

101. The story of Monobaz who distributed his riches to thepoor during a famine; his parents laid up treasures uponearth: he laid his treasures in heaven.

103. Story of Nahum ish- Gamzu who was in a very soreplight, being afflicted by pains all over his body, because heonce had not helped a poor man as quickly as he mighthave, and the man had died meanwhile.

103. Story of R. Shimoen b. Antipatrŏs who used to beat hisguests because they swore freely and thus showed contemptfor the Law, as he explained to R. Joshua who was sentby the sages to inquire about that strange behaviour.

104. A man reduced his tithe and consequently the yield ofhis fields became slowly reduced to the tenth of his firstincome. He was ironically congratulated by his friends forhaving become a priest, for it was he who now received thetithe and God who became the owner of the field.

105. A man was seized with frenzy and broke his casks filledwith oil and wine, in punishment for refusing to pay his tithe.

106. One who paid his tithes regularly once used half ofhis field to build there a cistern and made a fortune duringa drought.

107. A man forgot a sheaf in the field and was overjoyedwhen he remembered having left it, for he was thus fulfillingthe exact commandment, of" forgetting" some of thesheaves of corn in the field for the benefit of the poor.( Levit. XIX, 9-10.)

108. R. Akiba promised R.Tarfon to buy a town with moneyhe asked of him. He distributed it among the poor and shewedhim schools he had built, and so converted him to charity.

109. R. Tarfon was beaten by his superintendent, whofinding him in the vineyard took him for a trespasser, henot telling who he was through his meekness.

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