Check your privilege, Rabbi!

(8) Rabbi Yochanan son of Zakkai received [the tradition] from Hillel and Shammai. ... Rabbi Yochanan son of Zakkai had five students: Rabbi Eliezer son of Horkenos, Rabbi Joshua son of Hananya, Rabbi Yossi the Kohen, Rabbi Shimon son of Netanel, and Rabbi Elazar son of Arach. He would recount their praises: ... Rabbi Yehoshua son of Chananya--praiseworthy is the one who gave birth to him!

Another time the Emperor said to Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah, ‘I wish to see your God’. He replied:‘You cannot see him’. ‘Indeed’, said the Emperor, ‘I will see him’. He went and placed the Emperor facing the sun during the summer solstice and said to him, ‘Look up at it’. He replied: ‘I cannot’. Said Rabbi Joshua, ‘If at the sun, which is but one of the ministers that attend the Holy Blessed One, you cannot look, how then can you presume to look upon the divine presence!'

Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah said: All my life, no one ever [verbally] defeated me, except a woman, a boy and a girl.

Who was the woman? Once I stayed at a certain inn. She [the innkeeper] made me beans. On the first day, I ate them and did not leave any leftovers. On the second day, [I ate them] and did not leave any leftovers. On the third day, she spoiled the beans with salt. Once I tasted them, I withdrew my hands from them. She said to me, "Rabbi, why aren't you eating?" I said to her, " I already ate during the day." She said to me, "[If so,] you should have withdrawn your hands from the bread!" She said to me, "Rabbi, perhaps [you left food today because] you did not leave some leftovers in the earlier meals, for didn't the Sages say, 'One does not leave behind leftovers in the pot, but one does leave behind leftovers in the bowl?'" (See Rashi below.)

Who was the girl? Once I was walking along a road, and the road passed through a field and I was walking on it. A certain girl said to me, "Rabbi, isn't this a field?" I said to her, "Isn't this a beaten path?" She said to me, "Thieves like you beat it."

Who was the boy? Once I was walking along the road and I saw a boy sitting at a fork in the road. I said to him, "By which way shall we go to the city?" He said to me, "This way is short and long and that way is long and short." I walked on the short and long road. When I arrived to the city, I found surrounding it gardens and orchards [such that I could not reach the city]. I turned back. I said to the boy, "My son, didn't you tell me this road was short?" He said to me, "And didn't I tell you it was long?" I kissed him on his head and said to him, "How fortunate are you, Israel, that you are all greatly wise, from your great ones to your small ones!"

"One does not leave behind leftovers in the pot." When the server pours from the pot into the bowl, it is not the custom to leave anything in the pot for his own needs, but everyone leaves a "corner" (leftovers) in the bowl and returns it to the server, and it is the server's food.