{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/bar/bar133.htm","path":"jud/bar/bar133.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/bar/bar133.htm","text":"The Talmud, by Joseph Barclay, [1878]\nPouring Water\u2014Vessels\u2014Water\u2014Who may pour\u2014How it is to be poured\u2014Hindrances to Cleanness\u2014Doubting\u2014Primary Uncleanness\u2014Secondary Uncleanness\u2014Derived Uncleanness\u2014Rabban Simeon, Son of Gamaliel\u2014Straps of Phylacteries\u2014Rolls of the Law\u2014Holy Scriptures\u2014Canticles and Ecclesiastes\u2014Foot-baths\u2014Ammon and Moab\u2014Discussion between Rabbis Eleazar, Ishmael, and Tarphon\u2014Weeping of R. Eleazar\u2014An Ammonite Proselyte\u2014Chaldee Writing\u2014Assyrian Writing\u2014The Sadducees\u2014The Books of Homer\u2014The Pharisees\u2014Writing the Name.\n1. A Quarter log 1 of water is poured on the hands of one person; also on the hands of two persons. Half a log on three or four. From a log for five, ten, or even one hundred (persons.) R. Jos\u00e9 says, \"provided there be not less for the last than a quarter log.\" Men may add (water) for the second washing, 2 but they must not add it for the first.\n2. They may put water for hands in all vessels, even in vessels of dung, or vessels of stone, or vessels of earth. But they must not pour it on hands out of the (broken) sides of vessels, or the bottom of a tub, or the bung of a cask. Nor may one give it to his neighbour out of the hollow of his hand: because they must not draw or consecrate, or sprinkle the water of purification, or put it on hands, except it be in a vessel. They can only preserve vessels by the covering bound 3 upon them. Nor can they preserve from\nuncleanness water in open earthen vessels, 1 only in (covered) vessels.\n3. Water which is unfit for animals to drink, is unfit (for washing) in vessels; but on the ground it is fit. If ink, gum, or vitriol black drop into it, and its colour be changed, it is unfit. If one made use of it, or soaked his bread in it, it is unfit. Simeon the Temanite said, \"even if he intended to soak it in one vessel and it dropped into another, it is fit.\"\n4. If one rinsed vessels in it, or rinsed out measures, it is unfit. If one rinsed in it vessels already washed, or new ones, it is fit. R. Jos\u00e9 \"disallows it for new vessels.\"\n5. Water in which the baker has dipped rolls, is unfit; but if he only dipped in his hands, it is fit. All are allowed to pour water on hands, even one deaf, an idiot, or a minor. A man may rest a cask between his knees and pour it. He may incline the barrel on its side and pour it. An ape may pour water on hands. R. Jos\u00e9 \"disallows these two cases.\"\n324:1 A log is about half a pint.\n324:2 Before eating ordinary food the hands must be washed once. Before eating consecrated food they must be washed twice.\n324:3 Num. xix. 15.\n325:1 i.e. From the uncleanness of a dead reptile.","title":"The Talmud: Treatise XVII. Hands: Chapter I","type":"page"}