Multitude of the People

The majority of the people. A large crowd of people. In the question: the simple people. 'The people of the land'.

("For the majority of the people believed in the God of Abraham" - the compiler of the midrash (Eisenstein) Avraham Avinu, 5, and so on: "The way of preaching that the Sages practiced ... so that they would always remember the words of morality and admonition ... to act on the hearts of the majority of the people" - the introduction of Rav Tzvi gave life to the book of Ein Yaakov, and so on: "And the majority of the people, who are not For them this is the wisdom to delve into all this... We will do all this for them from the beginning, on the hands of a year, and tzitzit and tefillin, and Torah and tefillin" - Rabbi Nachman of Breslau/Likkutei Moharan, Torah 54, 3, and so on: "And the last plague - poor, impoverished, suffering, fearful, foolish, he is the people's burden, a slave killed for the rest of the classes "And from their face the threat of death is feared" - Mendelei Moss/ The Journeys of Benjamin the Third, 10, ed.)

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