SATURDAY PRAYER: KETER-YESHIVAT HAVERIM יְשִׁיבָה חברים – BABYLONIAN TALMUD p105

Said R. Jehudah in the name of Samuel: It would have been better for him (Solomon) to have
been an actual hireling to idolatry than to be accused of doing what is evil in the eyes of the
Lord.
Again R. Jehudah said in Samuel’s name: At the time Solomon took in wedlock the daughter of
Pharaoh, she brought to him about a thousand different musical instruments. Each of these was
used for separate idols, which she named to him, and still he did not protest against it.
The same said again in the name of the same authority: At the time Solomon took in wedlock
Pharaoh’s daughter (the angel) Gabriel came down and planted a cane in the sea; on the
sand that accumulated around the cane a great city was afterward built; but in a Boraitha we
were taught that the miracle occurred on the day that Jeroboam introduced the two golden
calves, one each in Beth-El and Dan, and that great city was Italia of Greece.