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To answer a question about this stuff, Shimon bar Yochai used the parable of a son who visits his father once a year versus once a day. Yosei claimed that the location of an omer of this stuff could be used to determine if a slave was stolen or sold. Siegfried Sassoon’s son claimed he had followed instructions in the Zohar to recreate this stuff. After rejecting this substance, one group is told they shall instead have (*) quail “until it (10[1])comes out at your nostrils,” preceding a plague. (10[1])This substance, which cannot be stored overnight, (10[1])is described as looking like bdellium or a white coriander seed. This “scale-like thing, as fine as the hoar-frost on the ground,” decomposes overnight and melts when the sun shines on it. For 10 points, name this honey-tasting food which falls from Heaven to feed the Israelites in Exodus. ■END■

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