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A dark story about an old hag and the Reish Galuta :
The Gemara relates: There was a certain "old woman" (savta) who came before Rav Naḥman. She said to him: The Exilarch and all the Sages in his house have been sitting in a stolen sukka. She claimed that the Exilarch’s servants stole her wood and used it to build the sukka. She screamed, but Rav Naḥman did not pay attention to her.
She said to him: A woman whose father, Abraham, our forefather, had three hundred and eighteen slaves screams before you, and you do not pay attention to her? She claimed that she should be treated with deference due to her lineage as a Jew. Rav Naḥman said to the Sages: This woman is a screamer, and she has rights only to the monetary value of the wood. However, the sukka itself was already acquired by the Exilarch.
Reb Zadok has a sweet interpretation about not giving up...
This pericope still bothers me and goes to the deeper question as to the corruption of the resh Galuta, for the way the gemoro portrays the savta as a complaining old hag only begs the moral question as to the theft being permissible in a case of a disenfranchised old woman who wields no political power over the raih galuta....