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It is estimated to have been equal to about one-twentieth of an English penny In some quarters of Poland the Jews have small thin bits of brass, with the Hebrew word prutah impressed upon them, for the uses in charity on the part of those among them that cannot afford to give a kreutzer to a poor man.— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Resh Lakish said, "A lawsuit about a prutah (the smallest coin there is) should be esteemed of as much account as a suit of a hundred manahs Sanhedrin_, fol. 8, col. 1 Rav Yitzchak asks, "Why was Obadiah accounted worthy to be a prophet?"— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
The prutah was the smallest coin then current.— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
xvii. 15 The prutah was the smallest coin then current.— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Whoever gives a prutah to a poor man has six blessings bestowed upon him, and he that speaks a kind word to him realizes eleven blessings in himself (see Isa. lviii.— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

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