the milk of their mother's breast (shad), so the Israelites found many tastes in the manna. The Gemara asked how one could reconcile , which reported that "the taste of it was as the taste of a cake baked with oil," with , which reported that "the taste of it was like wafers made with honey." Rabbi Jose ben Hanina said that the manna tasted differently for different classes of people: It tasted like honey for infants, bread for youths, and oil for the aged. Rabbi Eleazar, on the authority of Rabbi Simlai, noted that says, "And I charged your judges at that time," while similarly says, "I charged you [the Israelites] at that time." Rabbi Eleazar deduced that meant to warn the Congregation to revere their judges, and meant to warn the judges to be patient with the Congregation. Rabbi Hanan (or some say Rabbi Shabatai) said that this meant that judges must be as patient as Moses, who reports acted "as the nursing father carries the sucking child." A Midrash asked why in , God directed Moses to gather 70 elders of Israel, when reported that there already were 70 elders of Israel. The Midrash deduced that when in , the people murmured, speaking evil, and God sent fire to devour part of the camp, all those earlier 70 elders had been burned up. The Midrash continued that the earlier 70 elders were consumed like Nadab and Abihu, because they too acted frivolously when (as reported in ) they beheld God and inappropriately ate and drank. The Midrash taught that Nadab, Abihu, and the 70 elders deserved to die then, but because God so loved giving the Torah, God did not wish to disturb that time. A Midrash read , “Gather to Me 70 men,” to indicate God's assessment of the elder's worthiness. The Midrash compared God's words in to the case of a rich man who had a vineyard. Whenever he saw that the wine was good, he would direct his men to bring the wine into his house, but when he saw that the wine had turned to vinegar, he would tell his men to take the wine into their houses. Similarly, when God saw the elders and how worthy they were, God called them God's own, as God says in , “Gather to Me 70 men,” but when God saw the spies and how they