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חולין 25:2
Soncino English Talmud · Berean Standard Bible
to be smoothed, or adorned with designs, or planed, or trimmed round, or hammered out. Whatever still lacks the base or the rim or the handle, cannot be rendered unclean, but whatever only requires the lid can be rendered unclean. Why is there a difference between the one and the other? — R. Johanan said: Because these [metal vessels] are made for occasions of honour. R. Nahman said: Because they are expensive, What practical difference is there between them? — Bone vessels. And indeed R. Nahman is consistent in his view, for R. Nahman said: Bone vessels are regarded on the same footing as metal vessels. It appears then that bone vessels can be rendered unclean! — It is so; for it was taught: R. Ishmael, the son of R. Johanan b. Beroka says. What does the following verse teach us: And everything made from goats . . . ye shall purify? To include anything made from goats, either from the horns or from the hoofs. And whence do we know [that articles made from the horns or the hoofs] of other animals or beasts [are included]? From the words, ‘And everything made’. Why, then, is it written: ‘From goats’? To exclude [articles made from] birds. MISHNAH. WHEN BITTER ALMONDS ARE SUBJECT TO TITHING SWEET ALMONDS ARE EXEMPT, AND WHEN SWEET ALMONDS ARE SUBJECT TO TITHING BITTER ALMONDS ARE EXEMPT. GEMARA. Our Rabbis taught: Small bitter almonds are subject to tithing, but the large are exempt; large sweet almonds are subject to tithing, but the small are exempt. R. Ishmael b. R. Jose says in the name of his father: Both are exempt. Others have the reading: Both are subject to tithing. R. Ila'a said that R. Hanina ruled in Sepphoris in accordance with the view of him who maintains that both are exempt. But according to him who maintains that both are subject to tithing [it will be asked]: What use can be made of large bitter almonds? — R. Johanan answered: They can surely be sweetened by [roasting in] the fire! MISHNAH. TAMAD BEFORE IT HAS FERMENTED MAY NOT BE BOUGHT WITH SECOND TITHE MONEY AND RENDERS A MIKWEH INVALID; AFTER IT HAS FERMENTED IT MAY BE BOUGHT WITH SECOND TITHE MONEY AND DOES NOT RENDER A MIKWEH INVALID. BROTHERS WHO ARE PARTNERS [IN THEIR INHERITANCE], WHEN THEY ARE LIABLE TO PAY THE AGIO, ARE EXEMPT FROM THE CATTLE TITHE, AND WHEN THEY ARE LIABLE TO THE CATTLE TITHE, THEY ARE EXEMPT FROM THE AGIO. GEMARA. Who is the author of our Mishnah? It is neither R. Judah nor the Rabbis! For we have learnt: If a man made Tamad putting in a certain measure of water, and he subsequently found the same measure of liquid, he is exempt from tithing it. R. Judah however, makes him liable. Now who is the author [of our Mishnah]? If the Rabbis, then even though it has fermented [it should not be purchasable with Second Tithe money], and if R. Judah, then even though it has not fermented at all [it should be purchasable with Second Tithe money]! — R. Nahman said, in the name of Rabbah b. Abbuha,
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