The Diet of the Jews of the Rich, Luxurious

When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you, …

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.