Echo Scripture

Ecclesiastes Rabbah 3:6

“A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to discard” (Ecclesiastes 3:6). “A time to seek,” in peacetime, “and a time to lose,” in wartime; “a time to keep,” at a good time, “and a time to discard,” at a bad time. There was an incident involving a certain merchant who would go and set out to sea, he and his son. He would take with him two kav of dinars. [The captain] gave them a place in a dark [part of the ship]. He [the traveler] heard the navigators’ voices saying: ‘When we are out to sea, we will kill them, cast them into the sea, and take the load of dinars from them.’ What did that man do? He made himself [sound] as though he was quarreling with his son, and he took [the dinars] and cast them into the sea. When they entered the province, they went and filed a complaint to the governor of Caesarea. [The governor] sent [the conspirators] to prison and convicted them for their conspiracy and obligated them to give [the travelers] a load of dinars. They said to him: ‘On what basis do you find us guilty?’ He said to them: ‘On the basis of Solomon, king of Israel, as it is written: “A time to cast…”’

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