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... that the halachah follows Rabban Gamaliel.] Lit., 'R. Nahman says unto thee'. Lit., 'I who say ever. Lit., 'until now Rabban Gamaliel does not say there'. Miggo, means since,' 'because,' and 'in consequence of,' and is used here as a legal term, denoting 'a legal rule according to which a deponent's statement is accepted as true on the ground that, if he had intended to tell a lie, he might have...
... idolatry, incest and bloodshed this rule does does not apply. One should rather lose one's life than commit these transgressions; v. Sanh. 74a. In the case of signing a document, one should sign a falsehood and not lose one's life. The witnesses should, therefore, be believed if they said. 'we were forced to sign a falsehood by threats to our life'. The debtor. And that the witnesses signed it by his...
... Patriarchs, this being exhausted by now. One's sins cause his death. Ezek. XVIII, 20. Ps. LXXXIX, 33. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Shabbath 55b An objection is raised: The ministering angels asked the Holy One, blessed be He: 'Sovereign of the Universe! Why didst Thou impose the penalty of death upon Adam?' Said He to them, I gave him an easy command, yet he violated it.' 'But Moses and...
.... ba'al. I Sam. XV, 5. Saul argued: If the Torah decreed that a heifer should have its neck broken in the valley on account of a single murdered man (Deut. XXI, 1-9), how much greater is the sin of slaying all these Amalekites! (v. Yoma 22b). Thus he strove against God's command. This agrees with Rab's view (supra a) that David paid heed to slander and acted unjustly. Hence this punishment. The first...
... Files Hence the year consisted of three hundred and fifty-two days, And the first of Siwan fell on a Monday. The Seder 'Olam is the earliest extant post-exilic chronicle in Hebrew, and is a chronological record extending from Adam to Bar Kochba's revolt during the reign of Hadrian. Most scholars are agreed in assigning its authorship to R. Halafta, a Tanna of the first century, on the strength of a...
... letter or weaves a single thread or makes only one mesh of a sieve, [he is culpable]; To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Who holds that boring a hole is not building. For the hole must be filled up subsequently. It is a rule that this phrase always adds something not explicitly mentioned. The kapiza was a small measure, less than a kab. If one hollows out a...
... one needs a verse, he may bring [a Scroll] and see [it] therein. R. Nehemiah said: Why did they rule, Holy Writings may not be read? So that people may say, If Holy Writings may not be read, how much more so secular documents!15 MISHNAH. ONE MAY SAVE THE SHEATH OF A SCROLL TOGETHER WITH THE SCROLL, AND THE CONTAINER OF TEFILLIN16 TOGETHER WITH THE TEFILLIN, EVEN IF IT [ALSO] CONTAINS MONEY...
... case probably the motion extinguishes it if the flame is very small. But the Tanna does not permit water. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Shabbath 120b — He rules as R. Simeon b. Nannos.1 Yet perhaps R. Simeon b. Nannos said [merely], BECAUSE HE SINGES: but did he rule [thus] of indirect extinguishing?2 — Yet, since the final clause teaches, R. JOSE FORBIDS IN THE...
... rule: The poor may be given dem'ai as food, and [likewise] billeted soldiers.10 AND THE FIRST TITHE WHOSE TERUMAH HAS BEEN SEPARATED. But that is obvious? — It is necessary [to teach it] only where he anticipated [the separation of] the first tithe in the ears, and separated terumah of tithe but not the great terumah.11 And this is as the following dictum of R. Abbahu in the name of Resh...
... hole. What is the general rule which determines its purpose? That the wine should not drip out. There it has to bear the weight of all the wine and so must be strengthened. If a number of houses open into a common courtyard and their owners wish to divide it, each to have his own privately, each receives four cubits along the breadth of the courtyard for every door to his house that gives upon it...
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