prutah

Now a meah, in the days of Moses our master, was called a gerah; it contains two pondions; a pondion, two assars; and a prutah is the eighth part of an assar.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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 Various

"A prutah is the eighth part of an Italian assarius.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Luke hath, the last mite, chapter 12: 59; that is, the last prutah, which was the eighth part of the Italian assarius.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The prutah, as it was the least piece of money among the Jews, so it seems to have been a coin merely Jewish, not Roman.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Hence are those numberless passages in the Talmudic Pandects relating to the prutah: "He that steals less than a prutah is not bound to pay five-fold."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Maimonides, That which is not worth a prutah, is not to be reckoned among riches.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

"No land is bought for a price less than a prutah," that is, given as an earnest.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

On the next page of the same tract it is said, "For one prutah given as alms to a poor man one is made partaker of the beatific vision."

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

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."

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various