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... practical difference between them is the day preceding the first day of the fourth year.35 R. Johanan, however, replied: The practical difference between them is the rule that thirty days of a year are counted as the full year.36 An objection was raised: A girl of the age of three years and even one of the age of two years and one day may be betrothed by intercourse; so R. Meir. But the Sages say...
... whom the law rests, but he [the judge] happened to rule according to the opinion of one of them, whilst the general practice;13 follows the other, — this is a case of [an error] in the weighing of [conflicting] opinions. R. Hamnunah refuted R. Shesheth: It once happened that R. Tarfon ordered a cow [belonging to Menahem],14 whose womb had been removed, to be given to dogs.15 ...
... verse reads, Ye shall therefore keep my statutes which I [now] command you: but here it reads, My statutes ye shall keep, implying the statutes decreed from of old shall ye keep.11 R. JOSHUA B. KARHA SAID etc. R. Aha b. Jacob said: He is not guilty unless he cursed the Tetragrammaton, excluding a biliteral Name,12 the blaspheming of which is not punishable. Is this not obvious, the Mishnah...
... for a certain woman,3 and his heart was consumed by his burning desire [his life being endangered thereby]. When the doctors were consulted, they said, 'His only cure is that she shall submit.' Thereupon the Sages said: 'Let him die rather than that she should yield.' Then [said the doctors]; 'let her stand nude before him;' [they answered] 'sooner let him die'. 'Then', said the doctors, 'let...
... of these things; so here too, for doing one of these things [shall he live]. IF HE COMMITTED ONE SIN FOR WHICH A TWOFOLD DEATH PENALTY IS INCURRED, etc. It has been taught: When did R. Jose rule, HE IS JUDGED ACCORDING TO THE FIRST INTERDICT WHICH LAY UPON HIM? E.g., if a woman was first interdicted as a mother-in-law19 and then became a married women, he is judged [for incest with her] as...
... punishment and the answer to R. Kahana's question. Ibid. 11. The meaning of this is given in the following story. Jer. XXII, 19. I.e., it would be exposed to this disgrace, of being cast away in the streets, and yet another, viz., burning. From Palestine; v. p. 390, n. 1. J. Derenbourg, Essai p. 84 places this Beth din during the rule of Simeon the Hasmonean (143-135 B.C.E.), or the first years of his son...
... use of the term [H], 'Oral Law' is found ascribed. Of teaching him. The first four letters of the Hebrew alphabet. As to what the letters are. There must be a certain reliance upon authority before anything can be learnt at all. Cf. M. Farbridge, Judaism and the Modern Mind, chs. VII and VIII. Rashi: a cubit to measure off the amount of work done by a builder. The golden Rule; cf. Lev. XIX, 18: but...
.... Deut. XIX, II. Who differ from R. Simeon on this point. v. Sanh. 79a. And a person was killed. For in matters of judgment the principle of 'majority' is as a rule the deciding factor. [That does not mean to imply that the killing of a heathen was no murder. The Mekilta in Ex. XXI, 12 states explicitly that the crime is equally condemnable irrespective of the religion and nationality of the victim...
... tooth;2 and so also when he puts out his eye and knocks out his tooth the slave should go out in lieu of both his eye and his tooth [and no payment for either of these should have to be made]? — Abaye said to him: It is to rule out this idea of yours that Scripture says: 'For his eye's sake',3 implying 'not for the sake of both his eye and tooth'; 'for his tooth's sake'4 but...
... what reason did the Rabbis rule that the work of her hands belonged to her husband? Because she receives from him her maintenance;47 but here, since she receives no maintenance, her handiwork does not belong to him. OR TO THE RIGHT OF INVALIDATING HER VOWS, [since] what is the reason why the All Merciful said that a husband may annul [his wife's vows]? In order that she may not become repulsive...
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