The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch cites a Talmudic tale asserting that because Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak had one of these objects, he did not become a thief. Some Religious Zionists (10[1])use examples of these items called sruga to exercise religious entitlement to the region. According to the Talmud, Rabbi Hunah ben Joshua never walked four cubits without one of these items to show that ■END■