Avoda Zora 4b § 1
Why Not Ride a Horse?
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Question: What do we mean when we say that
he did not know what was on the mind of his animal?
For when the Moabite emissaries saw
that Bilaam was riding on his donkey,
he did not know what was on the mind of his animal?
For when the Moabite emissaries saw
that Bilaam was riding on his donkey,
| Moabites: | Why do you not ride a horse? |
| Bilaam: | Usually I ride a horse. However, today
I am riding a donkey for the first time, because I put my horses in the marshland to graze. |