## Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Pinchas

###### Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Pinchas 16:1
[Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Pinchas 16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Midrash%20Tanchuma%20Buber/s/Pinchas/r/16:1)

ביום השמיני. מה ראה להיות פוחת בכל יום, אלא לימדך התורה דרך ארץ, מן הקרבנות, שאם ילך אדם לאכסניא וקיבלו חבירו, יום ראשון מקבלו ומאכילו עופות, ובשני מאכילו דגים, [בשלישי מאכילו בשר], ברביעי מאכילו ירק, כך פוחת והולך עד שמאכילו קיטנית.

**Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.:**
(Numb. 29:35:) ON THE EIGHTH DAY: What was the reason for the number of sacrificial animals being reduced on each day?⁵⁰., Numb. 8:17; Numb. R. 21:25. The Torah is simply teaching you ettiquette from the sacrifices. Thus if someone goes for lodging,⁵¹. where his friend receives him, on the first day that he receives him, he feeds him fowl. Then on the second he feeds him fish; [on the third he feeds him meat;] on the fourth he feeds him greens. So does he continue to reduce, until he is feeding him pulse.

footnotes:
⁵⁰ Tanh
⁵¹ Gk.: Xenia