Ancient Texts

p. 239 CHAPTER XVI. REGULATIONS CONCERNING ARTICLES WHICH MAY BE SAVED FROM A CONFLAGRATION ON SABBATH. MISHNA: All sacred scriptures may be saved from a conflagration (on the Sabbath); be such scriptures allowed or not allowed to be read on Sabbath. The Scriptures written in any language whatsoever must be considered sacred, and brought to a safe place,

p. 230 CHAPTER XV. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE TYING AND UNTYING OF KNOTS ON THE SABBATH. MISHNA: Following are the knots for the tying of which one becomes culpable. The knot of the camel-drivers (made on the guiding-ring) and the knot of the seamen (made on the bow of a ship); just as one becomes culpable for tying them,

p. 219 CHAPTER XIV. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE CATCHING OF REPTILES, ANIMALS AND BIRDS. MISHNA: One who catches or wounds any one of the eight kinds of reptiles enumerated in the Scriptures (Lev. xi. 29-30, viz.: the weasel, the mouse, the tortoise, the hedgehog, the chameleon, the lizard, the snail and the mole) is culpable; one who wounds worms

p. 213 CHAPTER XIII. REGULATIONS CONCERNING WEAVING, TEARING, HUNTING, ETC., ON THE SABBATH. MISHNA: R. Eliezer said: One who weaves (on the Sabbath) is culpable, as soon as he has woven three threads at the beginning of the web, and with a web already begun the addition of one thread suffices to make him culpable. The sages said:

p. 204 CHAPTER XII. REGULATIONS CONCERNING BUILDING, PLOUGHING, ETC., ON THE SABBATH. MISHNA: (Among the forty, less one, principal acts of labor, building was enumerated.) What is the least amount of building which will make a man culpable? The least possible amount. The same applies to stone-masonry, smoothing with a hammer (at the close of the work); as

p. 189 TRACT SABBATH. CHAPTER XI. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THROWING FROM ONE GROUND INTO ANOTHER. MISHNA: One who throws a thing from private into public or from public into private ground is culpable. From private into private ground, by way of public ground, R. Aqiba holds him to be culpable, but the sages declare him free. How so? If two

SYNOPSIS OF SUBJECTS OF VOLUME II.--TRACT SABBATH, xli CHAPTER XI. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THROWING FROM ONE GROUND INTO ANOTHER, 189 CHAPTER XII. REGULATIONS CONCERNING BUILDING, PLOUGHING, ETC., ON THE SABBATH, 204 CHAPTER XIII. REGULATIONS CONCERNING WEAVING, TEARING, HUNTING, ETC., ON THE SABBATH, 213 CHAPTER XIV. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE CATCHING OF REPTILES, ANIMALS AND BIRDS, 219 CHAPTER XV. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE TYING AND UNTYING OF KNOTS ON

p. 171 CHAPTER X. FURTHER REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE PRESCRIBED QUANTITY OF THINGS TO BE STORED. MISHNA I.: One who had stored anything for planting, sampling, or medicinal purposes (before the Sabbath) and carried some of it out (into public ground) on the Sabbath, be it ever so small a quantity, is liable for a sin-offering. Any one else,

p. 154 CHAPTER IX. RABBI AQIBA'S REGULATIONS ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS. MISHNA I.: R. Aqiba said: Whence do we deduce that one who carries an idol is as unclean (ritually) as a woman suffering from menstruation? From the passage [Isaiah, xxx. 23]: "Thou wilt cast them away as a filthy thing. 1 'Get thee hence!', wilt thou say unto

p. 143 CHAPTER VIII. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE PRESCRIBED QUANTITIES OF VICTUALS AND BEVERAGES WHICH MUST NOT BE CARRIED ABOUT ON THE SABBATH. MISHNA I.: The prescribed quantities (of victuals and beverages) prohibited to be carried about on the Sabbath (are as follows): Sufficient wine in a goblet, which with the addition of a certain quantity of water would