Moses alone to whom Jethro ["the Kenite"] had shown kindness? But the Bible here implies the rule that whoso deals kindly with any one of the spiritual heads of Israel, to him it is accounted as if he had done so to the whole people". With reference to the Biblical statement "The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem," he remarks, "Was it not Moses who brought up those bones? But this teaches that where one starts a good deed and fails to complete it, another party performing the unfinished part, the whole deed is credited to the latter". He counsels that one should advance or postpone a journey in order to enjoy the company of a good man; and likewise to avoid the company of a bad one. Baraita of the Thirty-Two Rules The Baraita of the Thirty-Two Rules, or Baraita of R. Eliezer ben Jose ha-Gelili, is a baraita in the introduction to the Midrash HaGadol giving the thirty-two hermeneutic rules according to which the Tanakh is interpreted. The opening of the text is attributed to R. Eliezer ben Jose; modern opinions vary as to how much of it was in fact composed by Jose or his students. References containing the following bibliography: Bacher, Agada der Tannaiten, ii. 293–298; Bloch, in Kobak's Jeschurun, ix. 47-58 (a polemic against a treatise by Berliner on the Baraita. This treatise is not mentioned by name, and is not otherwise known to the writer of the present article); Wolf Einhorn, Sefer Midrash Tannaim, 1838 (an extract from this work occurs in his introduction to his commentary on Rabbah, Wilna, 1878); Hildesheimer, in the Supplement to the third Program of the Rabbinical College of Eisenstadt, 1869; Katzenellenbogen, Netibot 'Olam, 1st ed., 1822, and 2d ed., with annotations by M. and S. Straschun, 1858; Königsberger, in Monatsblätter für Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, 1890–91, pp. 3–10, 90–94, and the Hebrew Supplement, pp. 1–16; Reifmann, Meshib Dabar, 1866. containing the following bibliography: Bacher, Ag. Tan. ii. 292 et seq.; Brüll, Mebo ha-Mishnah, i. 212; Frankel, Darke ha-Mishnah, p. 186; Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, ii., s.v.; Weiss, Dor, ii. 167; Zacuto, Yuḥasin, ed. Filipowski, p. 57a. Mishnah rabbis 2nd-century rabbis