{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/etm/etm031.htm","path":"jud/etm/etm031.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/etm/etm031.htm","text":"Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna, by D. A. Sola and M. J. Raphall, [1843]\n\u00a7 1. R. Akivah saith, \"Whence is it [to be inferred] that carrying an idol maketh unclean, even as menstruation doth? From the text, 'Thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: thou shalt say unto it [the idol], get thee hence.' 1 Even as the carrying of a menstruous cloth defileth, so does likewise the carrying of an idol.\"\n\u00a7 2. Whence is it [to be inferred] that a ship is clean? From the text, \"The way of a ship in the heart [midst] of the sea.\" 2 Whence is it [to be inferred] that in a garden-bed, six hands square, five different kinds of seed may be sown; [i.e.] four [kinds] in the four corners of the garden-bed, and the fifth in the middle? 3 From the text, \"For as the earth, bringeth forth her bud, and the garden causeth \u05d6\u05b0\u05e8\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b6\u05d9\u05d4\u05b8, her seeds, to spring forth.\" 4 The text does not say, \u05d6\u05b7\u05e8\u05b0\u05e2\u05b8\u05d4\u05bc [her seed, in the singular, as if of one kind only], but \u05d6\u05b0\u05e8\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b6\u05d9\u05d4\u05b8, [her seeds of various kinds].\n\u00a7 3. Whence is it [to be inferred] that a woman who sheds semen on the third day [after coition] is unclean? From the text, \"And be ye ready against the third day.\" 5 Whence is it [to be inferred] that a circumcised infant is to be bathed [washed] on the third day [after circumcision], even though that falls on the Sabbath? From the text, \"And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore,\" 6 Whence is it [to be inferred] that a red string is to be tied to the head of the scapegoat? 7 From the text, \"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall become white as snow.\" 8\n\u00a7 4. Whence is it [to be inferred] that anointing is [as unlawful] as drinking on the day of atonement? Although there is no [absolute proof] for this assertion, there is an indication thereof in the text, \"Let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.\" 9\n\u00a7 5. He [is likewise guilty] who carries out wood sufficient to boil a light egg, spices sufficient to season a light egg; and [different kinds of spice are to be] computed together. Nut-shells, pomegranate peels, isatis [woad], and madder, sufficient to dye a small cap-cloth; urine, alum, \u05d1\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea, and \u05e7\u05de\u05d5\u05dc\u05d9\u05d0 and \u05d0\u05e9\u05dc\u05d2, 10 sufficient to wash a small cap-cloth. R. Jehudah saith, \"sufficient to pass over a blood-stain, [by way of experiment to see if it can be taken out].\"\n\u00a7 6. Pimento the smallest quantity, extract of pitch the smallest quantity; all kinds of spice [perfumes] and of metals [ores] the smallest quantity. Altar stones and altar dust, 11 fragments of rolls of\nthe law, and fragments of their wrappers [gnawed to pieces by moths] the smallest quantity; because these things are preserved to be secreted. R. Jehudah saith, also, \"whoever carries out the smallest quantity of what has been used for idol-worship; for it is said, 'And there shall cleave nought of the accursed thing to thine hand.'\" 12\nIf a man carry out the box of a dealer in spices [apothecary], although there be various kinds [of spice] therein, he is [only] bound to bring one sin-offering. Garden seeds, [rather] less than the size of a dried fig. R. Jehudah ben Bethera saith, \"Five [things there are of which, should a man carry the smallest quantity, he is guilty], cucumber seeds two [grains],pumpkin seeds two [grains],Egyptian bean-seed [two grains], a clean 13 live grasshopper any portion [however small], [if it be] dead the size of a dried fig. A vineyard bird 14 any [the smallest] portion [be it] dead or alive.\" R. Jehudah saith, \"He likewise [is guilty]who carries out any [the smallest] portion of an unclean live grasshopper, because these are preserved for children to play with.\"\n49:1 Isa. xxx. 22.\n50:2 Prov. xxx. 19.\n50:3 Vide Treatise Kilaim, chap. III. \u00a7 1.\n50:4 Isa. lxi. 11.\n50:5 Exod. xix. 11.\n50:6 Genes. xxxiv. 25.\n50:7 Lev. xvi. 8, 20\u201322.\n50:8 Isa. i. 18.\n50:9 Ps. cxix. 18.\n50:10 Commentators do not satisfactorily explain the meaning of these three words. Dr. Jost asserts, that \u05d1\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea is alkaline salt; that \u05d0\u05e9\u05dc\u05d2, derived from \u05e9\u05dc\u05d2, snow, is a kind of frothy soap; and that \u05e7\u05de\u05d5\u05dc\u05d9\u05d0 is the creta-cimolia, of which Pliny states (Hist. Nat. lib. v. 57), that it is used for washing.\n50:11 From the Temple at Jerusalem.\n51:12 Deut. xiii. 17.\n51:13 Such as may be eaten. (Vide Lev. xi. 22).\n51:14 It is nowhere explained what particular bird is meant by this designation; probably it is grasshopper. (Vide Choolin, fo. 65).","title":"Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna: XII. Treatise Sabbath: Chapter IX","type":"page"}