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p. 1 TRACT BABA BATHRA (LAST GATE). CHAPTER I. RULES AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING HOUSES, YARDS, AND FIELDS IN PARTNERSHIP OR CONJOINTLY; THE SHARING IN PARTITIONS, FENCES, AND WALLS; LOOKING INTO OTHERS' PROPERTY; CLAIMS PAID BEFORE DUE; DUTIES OF ONE TO HIS CITY--STREETS, ETC.; CITIZENSHIP BY LAPSE OF TIME, AND CONCERNING THE SIZE OF A YARD LIABLE TO DIVISION. MISHNA

The Babylonian Talmud Translated by MICHAEL L. RODKINSON Book 7 (Vols. XIII. and XIV.) 1918 Tract Baba Bathra (Last Gate) Tract Baba Bathra, Part I Title Page Explanatory Remarks Dedication Contents Synopsis Of Subjects Of Tract Baba Bathra (Last Gate). Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Appendix Tract Baba Bathra, Part II Title Page Explanatory Remarks Dedication Synopsis of Subjects Chapter VI Chapter

p. 61 CHAPTER IV. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE NEW YEAR'S DAY WHEN IT FALLS ON SABBATH, AND THE PRAYERS THEREON--THE ORDINANCES OF THE BENEDICTIONS, ETC. MISHNA: When the feast of New Year happened to fall on the Sabbath, they used to sound (the cornet) in the Temple, but not outside of it. After the destruction of the Temple R.

p. 51 CHAPTER III. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE INTERCALATING OF THE MONTH--THE CORNET, AND OF WHAT IT IS TO BE MADE--AND THE PRAYERS OF THE NEW YEAR'S DAY. MISHNA: If the Beth Din and all Israel saw (the moon on the night of the thirtieth day), or if the witness had been examined, but there was no time to

p. 41 CHAPTER II. ORDINANCES ABOUT THE WITNESSES CONCERNING THE NEW MOON, THE HOISTING OF THE FLAGS AND HOW IT WAS CONSECRATED BY THE BETH DIN. MISHNA: If the witness was unknown another was sent with him to testify to his character. In former times they would receive evidence (about the appearance of the moon) from any one;

p. 1 "NEW YEAR." CHAPTER I. THE ORDINANCES ABOUT THE NEW YEARS OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR--THE MESSENGERS THAT WERE SENT OUT FROM JERUSALEM--AND AT WHICH PERIOD OF THE YEAR THE WORLD IS DIVINELY JUDGED. MISHNA I.: There are four New Year days, viz.: The first of Nissan is New Year for (the ascension of) Kings and for (the regular

p. iii TRACT ROSH HASHANA (NEW YEAR). Contents TRACT ROSH HASHANA. INTRODUCTION TO THIS TRACT, xix-xxii SYNOPSIS OF SUBJECTS OF THIS TRACT, xxiii-xxviii CHAPTER I. OF THE FOUR NEW YEAR'S DAYS AS KEPT DURING THE PERIOD OF THE SECOND TEMPLE, 1-36 CHAPTER II. THE OBSERVERS OF THE NEW MOON BEFORE THE HIGH COURT IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, 37-44 CHAPTER III. OBSERVING THE MOON BY THE HIGH

p. 33 CHAPTER VIII. MISHNA: (a) All spittle a1 to be found in Jerusalem is considered clean, except such as is found at the upper market (for this place was secluded and those afflicted with venereal diseases were in the habit of going there). Such is the teaching of R. Meir. The sages say: In the middle

p. 29 CHAPTER VII. MISHNA: (a) If money is found between the chest marked "Shekalim" and that marked "voluntary offerings," it belongs to the chest marked "Shekalim" if it lies nearer to the same, and to the one marked "voluntary offerings" if it be nearer that. So also does it belong to the voluntary offerings if it

p. 25 CHAPTER VI. MISHNA: (a) There were thirteen curved chests a1 and thirteen tables in the Sanctuary, and thirteen prostrations took place in the Sanctuary. The family of R. Gamaliel and of R. Hananiah, chief of the priests, made fourteen prostrations; this extra prostration was made towards the wood-chamber, a2 because, according to an ancestral tradition,