has a person hanged in the family does not say to another member of the household: Hang a fish for me, as the mention of hanging is demeaning for that family. Expanding on , in which God says that "the land is Mine," Rabbi Elazar of Bartotha said that you and all that is yours is Gods; and thus says with regards to David: "for everything comes from You, and from Your own hand have we given you." Rabbi Phinehas in the name of Rabbi Reuben interpreted the words "If your brother grows poor . . . then shall his kinsman . . . redeem" in to exhort Israel to acts of charity. Rabbi Phinehas taught that God will reward with life anyone who gives a coin to a poor person, for the donor could be giving not just a coin, but life. Rabbi Phinehas explained that if a loaf costs ten coins, and a poor person has but nine, then the gift of a single coin allows the poor person to buy the loaf, eat, and become refreshed. Thus, Rabbi Phinehas taught, when illness strikes the donor, and the donor's soul presses to leave the donor's body, God will return the gift of life. Similarly, Rav Naḥman taught that exhorts Israel to acts of charity, because fortune revolves like a wheel in the world, sometimes leaving one poor and sometimes well off. And similarly, Rabbi Tanḥum son of Rabbi Ḥiyya taught that exhorts Israel to acts of charity, because God made the poor as well as the rich, so that they might benefit each other; the rich one benefiting the poor one with charity, and the poor one benefiting the rich one by affording the rich one the opportunity to do good. Bearing this in mind, when Rabbi Tanhum's mother went to buy him a pound of meat, she would buy him two pounds, one for him and one for the poor. The Gemara employed to deduce that the term , yamim, (literally "days") sometimes means "a year," and Rab Hisda thus interpreted the word , yamim, in to mean "a year." says, "And her brother and her mother said: ‘Let the maiden abide with us , yamim, at the least ten." The Gemara reasoned that if , yamim, in means "days" and thus to imply "two days" (as the plural implies more than one), then would report Rebekah's