Shabbat

and served scholars much, why did he die in middle age? and no man could answer her. On one occasion I  was a guest at her house,  and she related the whole story to me. Said I to her, 'My daughter! how was he to thee in thy days of menstruation?' 'God forbid!' she rejoined; 'he did not touch me even with his little finger.' 'And how was he to thee in thy days of white [garments]?'  'He ate with me, drank with me and slept with me in bodily contact, and it did not occur to him to do other.' Said I to her, 'Blessed be the Omnipresent for slaying him, that He did not condone on account of the Torah!  For lo! the Torah hath said, And thou shalt not approach unto a woman as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.'  When R. Dimi came,  he said, It was a broad bed. In the West [Palestine] they said, R. Isaac b. Joseph said: An apron interposed between them. MISHNAH. AND THESE ARE OF THE HALACHOTH WHICH THEY STATED IN THE UPPER CHAMBER OF HANANIAH B. HEZEKIAH B. GARON, WHEN THEY WENT UP TO VISIT HIM. THEY TOOK A COUNT, AND BETH SHAMMAI OUTNUMBERED BETH HILLEL.; AND ON THAT DAY THEY ENACTED EIGHTEEN MEASURES. GEMARA. Abaye said to R. Joseph: Did we learn, THESE ARE or AND THESE ARE? Did we learn AND THESE ARE [viz,] those that we have stated [in the former Mishnah]; or did we learn THESE ARE [viz.,] those that are to be stated soon? — Come and hear: One may not search his garments by the light of a lamp, nor read by the light of a lamp; and these are of the halachoth stated in the upper chamber of Hananiah b. Hezekiah b. Garon. This proves that we learnt, AND THESE ARE;  this proves it. Our Rabbis taught: Who wrote Megillath Ta'anith?  Said they, Hananiah b. Hezekiah and his companions, who cherished their troubles.  R. Simeon b. Gamaliel observed: We too cherish our troubles, but what can we do? For if we come to write [them down], we are inadequate.  Another reason is: a fool is not assailed.  Another reason: the flesh of the dead does not feel the scalpel. But that is not so, for did not R. Isaac say, Worms are as painful to the dead as a needle in the flesh of the living, for it is said, But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth?  Say: The dead flesh in a living person does not feel the scalpel. Rab Judah said in Rab's name: In truth, that man, Hananiah son of Hezekiah by name, is to be remembered for blessing:  but for him, the Book of Ezekiel would have been hidden,  for its words contradicted the Torah.  What did he do? Three hundred barrels of oil were taken up to him and he sat in an upper chamber and reconciled  them. AND ON THAT DAY THEY ENACTED EIGHTEEN MEASURES. What are the eighteen measures? — For we learnt: The following render terumah unfit:  one who eats food of the first degree or the second degree, or who drinks unclean liquid;  one who enters with head and the greater part of his body into drawn water;  a clean person upon whose head and the greater part of his body there fell three logs  of drawn water; a Book;  one's hands;  a tebul yom;  and food or utensils which were defiled by a liquid. which Tanna [holds that] one who eats food of the first or of the second degree [merely] renders unfit