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The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – The general rule concerning the principal acts of labor on Sabbath.

p. 127 CHAPTER VII. THE GENERAL RULE CONCERNING THE PRINCIPAL ACTS OF LABOR ON SABBATH. MISHNA I.: A general rule was laid down respecting the Sabbath. One who has entirely forgotten the principle of (keeping) the Sabbath and performed many kinds of work on many Sabbath days, is liable to bring but one sin-offering. He, however, who was

The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – Regulations concerning what garments women may go out with on the Sabbath.

p. 107 CHAPTER VI. REGULATIONS CONCERNING WHAT GARMENTS (SERVING AS ORNAMENTS) WOMEN MAY GO OUT WITH ON THE SABBATH. MISHNA I.: In what (ornamental) apparel may a woman go out, and in what may she not go out? A woman is not allowed to go out (even in private ground) either with woollen or linen bands or with

The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – Regulations concerning what may and may not be worn by animals on the Sabbath.

p. 91 CHAPTER V. REGULATIONS CONCERNING WHAT MAY AND MAY NOT BE WORN BY ANIMALS ON THE SABBATH. MISHNA I.: What gear may we let animals go about in and what not? 1 The male camel in a bridle; the female cannel with a nose-ring; Lybian asses in a halter, and a horse in a collar. All (animals)

The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – Regulations concerning victuals, where they may or may not be deposited to retain their heat for the Sabbath.

p. 83 CHAPTER IV. REGULATIONS CONCERNING VICTUALS, WHERE THEY MAY OR MAY NOT BE DEPOSITED TO RETAIN THEIR HEAT FOR THE SABBATH. MISHNA I.: Wherein may hot vessels be deposited (to retain the heat) and wherein may they not? Depositing in Gepheth (olive waste), dung, salt, lime, and sand, either wet or dry, is not allowed. In straw,

The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – Regulations concerning stoves, hearths, and ovens.

p. 63 CHAPTER III. REGULATIONS CONCERNING STOVES, HEARTHS, AND OVENS. MISHNA I.: Cooked victuals may be put on a stove that was heated with straw or stubble. If the stove was heated with the pulp of poppy seed (i.e., poppy seed from which the oil was pressed out) or with wood, (cooked victuals) may not be put upon

The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – Regulations concerning the Sabbath and Hanukah Light.

p. 31 CHAPTER II. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE SABBATH AND 'HANUKAH LIGHT. MISHNA I.: What shall and what shall not be used for lighting (the Sabbath light)? The light shall not be made with (wicks of) cedar hast, raw flax, silk fibre, weeds growing upon the water, and ship-moss. 1 Nor shall pitch, wax, cotton-seed oil, oil of rejected

The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – Regulations Regarding Transfer on the Sabbath.

p. 1 TRACT SABBATH. CHAPTER I. REGULATIONS REGARDING TRANSFER ON SABBATH. MISHNA I.: There are two acts constituting transfer 1 of movable things (over the dividing line of adjoining premises, based on biblical statutes). The two acts are, however, increased to four on the inside and to a like amount on the outside of the premises (by the addition

The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – Synopsis

p. xxi INTRODUCTION TO TRACT SABBATH. WITH this tract we commence the translation of the section of the Talmud called Moed (Festivals), containing the following tracts: Sabbath, Erubhin, Rosh Hashana, Yuma, Shekalim, Sukkah, Megillah, Taanith, Pesachim, Betzah, Hagigah, and Moed Katan. All these tracts are entirely devoted to precepts pertaining to the observance of the festivals and

The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – Introduction and Synopsis

The Babylonian Talmud Translated by MICHAEL L. RODKINSON Volumes 1-10 1918 Book 1 (Vols. I and II) 1903 Tract Sabbath Volume I Title Page Explanatory Remarks Dedication Contents Preface to the Second Edition Editor's Preface Brief General Introduction to the Babylonian Talmud Introduction to Tract Sabbath Synopsis of Subjects Chapter I: Regulations Regarding Transfer on Sabbath Chapter II: Regulations Concerning The Sabbath And 'Hanukah Light Chapter III: Regulations Concerning

Complete translation of the ancient Egyptian Ipuwer Papyrus with notes (potential confirmation of Moses and the Exodus).

The Ipuwer Papyrus (officially Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto but also known as The Admonitions of Ipuwer) is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus now held in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands. It contains the Admonitions of Ipuwer, an incomplete literary work whose original composition is dated no earlier than the late

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