The tale is told that Alexander the Great went to a country where there were only women and wished to make war with them. They said to him:

“Why do you wish to make war with us? If you defeat us, you will gain no honor and people will say that he killed women; while if we defeat you, everybody will say: Alas for that king who was defeated by women!”

“Please let me have some bread,” he asked them. So they brought him gold bread on a gold table. “Do the people here eat bread of gold?” the mighty Alexander asked. The queen answered: “Was there no bread in your city that you have to come and eat our bread?”

“I have come,” said he to her, “not because of your wealth but because of your laws.” “In that case, enter and come with us!” The queen invited and Alexander did so. While they were seated, a case was brought before them.

A man came forth and explained: “0 great and wise queen, I bought a piece of land from my neighbor and as was clearing the land to plant crops I found a great treasure. The treasure is not mine, I bought only the land and not any treasure that might be buried in it. My neighbor refuses to take back the treasure.”

Then a woman came before the queen and said: “Just as you are afraid of the punishment for taking something you do not own, so am I afraid of it. The fact is, I sold you the land and everything in it–from the depths of the earth to the heights of heaven.

“Have you a daughter?” the queen asked the man. “I have,” said he. Then she asked the woman: “Have you a son?” “Yes,” she answered. Then she told them: “Go and arrange for them to marry and in that way you will share the treasure between you and live together in peace.”

Alexander showed his amazement. The queen asked, “Why are you amazed? Have I not judged well?” Alexander: “Yes, well.” The queen asked, “If such a case had come up before you in your country, how would you have handled it?” Alexander replied, “In our country, the king would have put them both in jail and would have taken the treasure to use for raising a larger army for more conquests and the pleasures of the king.”

The queen thought for a moment and then asked: “Does the sun shine where you live?”

Alexander: “Yes.”

“Does rain come down upon you?”

Alexander: “Yes.”

The queen asked: “There are small cattle in your country, are there not?”

Alexander: “Yes.”

The queen responded: “May the breath of life in such a king be cut short! It is only for the sake of the small cattle that the sun still shines for such people and the rain still comes down upon your country.”

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When Alexander departed from there, he wrote above the city gate:

I, Alexander, was a fool until I came here and learned wisdom and good counsel from the women.

Sources:        Bereishis      Rabbah      33:1,  Tanchuma, Emor 9, Vayikrah Rabbah 37:1, Midrash haGadol, Gen. 6:7, B. Tamid 32b

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