The daily distribution of food (6:1). Many Jews immigrated to Jerusalem to spend their final years in the Holy City and die there. Often the men preceded their wives in death, and the widows were then left with no immediate family to support them and care for their daily needs. There is some evidence that widows even traveled from Diaspora locations to Jerusalem. There is a higher proportion of women’s names in Greek ossuary (a burial box for bones) inscriptions.85 Jerusalem leaders had put together