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Updated: May 27, 2025
Gibbon's account of the Roman post recalls another Jewish institution, which may have been somehow connected with the Be-Davvar. The official custodian of the goat that was sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement was allowed, if he should feel the necessity a necessity which, according to tradition, never arose to partake of food even on the fast-day.
There were special Jewish letter-carriers, who carried the documents in a pocket made for the purpose, and in several towns in Palestine there was a kind of regular postal arrangement, though many places were devoid of the institution. The Jewish name for this post was Be-Davvar, and apparently was a permanent and regular institution.
The first Post-Jude is named in 1722. These Jewish letter-carriers received no salary from the Government, but collected a fee from the recipients of the letters. As, however, davvar meant a despatch-bearer, the phrase Be-Davvar passed over later into the meaning Post-Office.
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