on the march, for the herbs they gathered served this purpose.
[132] This well furthermore threw down soft, fragrant kinds of
grass that served as pleasant couches for the poor, who had no
pillows or bedclothes. [133] Upon the entrance to the Holy Land
this well disappeared and was hidden in a certain spot of the Sea of
Tiberias. Standing upon Carmel, and looking over the sea, one can
notice there a sieve-like rock, and that is the well of Miriam. [134]
Once upon a time it happened that a leper bathed at this place of
the Sea of Tiberias, and hardly had he come in contact with the
waters of Miriam's well when he was instantly healed. [135]

AMALEK'S WAR AGAINST ISRAEL

As a punishment because they had not had sufficient faith in God,
and had doubted whether He could fulfill all their wishes, and had
grown negligent in the study of the Torah and in the observance of
the laws, God turned Amalek against them during their sojourn in
Rephidim, where they had committed these sins. God dealt with
them as did that man with his son, whom he bore through the river
on his shoulders. Whenever the child saw something desirable, he
said, "Father, buy it for me," and he fulfilled the child's wish. After
the son had in this way received many beautiful things from his
father, he called to a passing stranger with these words, "Hast thou
perhaps seen my father?" Then, indignantly, the father said to his
son: "O thou fool, that sittest on my shoulder! All that thou didst
desire, did I procure for thee, and now dost thou ask of that man,
'Hast thou seen my father?'" Thereupon the father threw the child
off his shoulder, and a dog came and bit him. So did Israel fare.
When they moved out of Egypt, God enveloped them in seven
clouds of glory; they wished for bread, and He gave them manna;