When Rav Dimi came, he
said (There was this) one city that King Yannai had in HarMelech from which
they would from one Friday to the next take out 600,000 bowls of tuna to feed
the fig pickers.
When R. Yitzhak came
he said, there was one city in Eretz Yisrael and gfufnis was its name in which
there were 80 pairs of brothers who we're Kohanim married to 80 pairs of
sisters who were Kohanos.
The Ben HaYehoyada explains that the first Brysa is an
exaggeration for the purpose of teaching a parable, but the second Brysa is a
description of an event which actually occurred. He concludes this by virtue of
the fact that the second Brysa, unlike the first, gives the name of the city.
He cites the example of the Gemara in Eiruvin (63a) which asks why the name of
a particular rabbi, Yehuda ben Guria is given in connection with a particular
incident. The gemara responds so that one should know that it is not a parable.
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