Shabbat

But they were tebul yom?  — Abaye b. Rabin and R. Hanina b. Abin both say: The Torah was given to tebul yom. Now Meremar sat and reported this discussion. Said Rabina to him: Do you say that it was given, or that it was fitting [that it should be given]? I mean that it was fitting, he replied.  Yet they should have bathed at twilight and received the Torah at twilight?  — R. Isaac quoted [as an answer], from the beginning I have not spoken in secret. Yet they could have bathed on the Sabbath morning and received the Torah on the Sabbath morning?  — Said R. Isaac. It was unfitting that some should go to receive the Torah whilst others went to tebillah. R. Hiyya son of R. Abba said in R. Johanan's name: These are the views of R. Ishmael and R. Akiba; but the Sages maintain: We require six  full periods. R. Hisda said: This controversy is [only] where it [the semen] issues from the woman; but if it issues from a man,  it is unclean as long as it is moist. R. Shesheth objected: And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, [shall be washed with water and be unclean until the even]:  this excludes semen that is foul.  Surely this refers [even] to that which issues from a man? — No: [only] to that which issues from a woman. R. Papa asked: What of an Israelite's semen within a Cuthean woman?  [Do we say,] Because Israelites are anxious about [the observance of] precepts, their bodies are heated,  but not so Gentiles, who are not anxious about precepts; or perhaps, as they eat creeping crawling things, their bodies [too] are heated? Now should you say, as they eat creeping crawling things their bodies are heated, what of [semen] within an animal?  [Do we say.] A woman, who has a fore-uterus, causes it to become foul, but not so an animal, who s no fore-uterus; or perhaps there is no difference? The questions stands over. Our Rabbis taught: On the sixth day of the month [Siwan] were the Ten Commandments given to Israel. R. Jose maintained: On the seventh thereof. Said Raba: All agree that they arrived in the Wilderness of Sinai on the first of the month. [For] here it is written, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai;  whilst elsewhere it is written, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months:  just as there the first of the month,  so here [too] the first of the month [is meant]. Again, all agree that the Torah was given to Israel on the Sabbath. [For] here it is written, Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy;  whilst elsewhere it is written, And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day:  just as there, [he spoke] on that very day,  so here too it was on that very day.  [Where] they differ is on the fixing of the New Moon. R. Jose holds that New Moon was fixed on the first day of the week [Sunday], and on that day he [Moses] said nothing to them on account of their exhaustion from the Journey. On Monday he said to them, and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests;