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Summary: Rabba [Rava] bar Natan cites Eruvin 32b. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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holds: That ḥaver , who heard the first ḥaver speaking to the am ha’aretz , may immediately eat from the basket, and he is not required to tithe the produce, as the first ḥaver certainly separated tithes for the person who picked the figs, as he would not have caused an am ha’aretz to eat tevel . And Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel disagrees and says: That ḥaver may not eat of the fruit until he has tithed them, for ḥaverim are not suspected of separating teruma and tithes from produce that is not adjacent to the produce they seek to exempt. And Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi said to him: It is better that ḥaverim should be suspected of separating teruma and tithes from produce that is not adjacent to the produce they seek to exempt, and they should not feed amei ha’aretz produce that is tevel . The Gemara asks: With regard to what principle do they disagree? The Gemara answers: Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi holds…
Summary: Rabba [Rava] bar Natan cites Bava Batra 176a. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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Rav Pappa said: The halakha is that when a creditor gives a loan by oral contract, he can collect the debt from the heirs of the debtor after his death, but he cannot collect the debt from the purchasers of the debtor’s property. He can collect the debt from the heirs so as not to lock the door in the face of potential borrowers. But he cannot collect the debt from the purchasers, as a loan by oral contract has no publicity associated with it. § The mishna teaches: If one presents to a debtor a document in the handwriting of the debtor stating that he owes money to him, but without witnesses signed on the document, the creditor can collect only from unsold property. Rabba bar Natan asked Rabbi Yoḥanan: If the document in the handwriting of the debtor was ratified in court at a later time, what is the halakha ? Would it then be possible to collect the debt from liened property that has be…
Summary: Rabba [Rava] bar Natan cites Sanhedrin 81a. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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Do not speak to your father in that manner, where you tell him directly that he is mistaken. Rather, raise the matter in a circumspect manner, as it is taught in a baraita : In a case where one’s father was violating Torah matters he should not say to him: Father, you violated Torah matters. Rather, he should say to him: Father, it is written so in the Torah. The Gemara asks: Ultimately, isn’t this formulation identical to that previous formulation? In both cases he embarrasses his father. Rather, say to him: Father, there is a verse written in the Torah and this is what it says. Tell him the halakha or the verse in a way in which it is not obvious that it relates to the action that his father performed. MISHNA: One who is liable to be executed with two different court -imposed death penalties, as he violated two different capital transgressions, is sentenced to the more severe form of e…
Summary: Rabba [Rava] bar Natan cites Eruvin 32a. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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However, with regard to rabbinic laws, we do rely on the presumption that an agent fulfills his agency. And Rav Sheshet disagreed and said: With regard to both this, Torah law, and that, rabbinic law, we rely on the presumption that an agent fulfills his agency. Rav Sheshet said: From where do I say this? As we learned in a mishna: Once the omer has been offered, the grain from the new crop is immediately permitted. The Torah prohibits eating from the new crop of grain until the omer sacrifice is offered on the second day of Passover (Leviticus 23:14); once the omer is offered, it is immediately permitted to partake of the new grain. And those far from Jerusalem, who do not know whether or not the omer has already been offered, are permitted to eat from the new crop from midday and on, as the omer must surely have been offered by this time. Isn’t the prohibition to eat from the new crop…
Summary: Rabba [Rava] bar Natan cites Niddah 31a. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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What is the verse from which it is derived that a fetus is administered an oath on the day of its birth? “Upon You I have relied from birth; You are He Who took me out [ gozi ] of my mother’s womb” (Psalms 71:6). From where may it be inferred that this word: “ Gozi ,” is a term of administering an oath? As it is written: “Cut off [ gozi ] your hair and cast it away” (Jeremiah 7:29), which is interpreted as a reference to the vow of a nazirite, who must cut off his hair at the end of his term of naziriteship. And Rabbi Elazar says: To what is a fetus in its mother’s womb comparable? It is comparable to a nut placed in a basin full of water, floating on top of the water. If a person puts his finger on top of the nut, it sinks either in this direction or in that direction. § The Sages taught in a baraita : During the first three months of pregnancy, the fetus resides in the lower compartmen…
Summary: Rabba [Rava] bar Natan cites Ezekiel יח. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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The word of G OD came to me: What do you mean by quoting this proverb upon the soil of Israel, “Parents eat sour grapes and their children’s teeth are blunted”? As I live—declares the Sovereign G OD —this proverb shall no longer be current among you in Israel. Consider, all lives are Mine; the life of the parent and the life of the child are both Mine. Only the person who sins shall die. Thus, if a certain man is righteous and does what is just and right: If he has not eaten on the mountains or raised his eyes to the fetishes of the House of Israel; if he has not defiled another man’s wife or approached a menstruous woman; if he has not wronged anyone; if he has returned the debtor’s pledge to him and has taken nothing by robbery; if he has given bread to the hungry and clothed the naked; if he has not lent at advance interest or exacted accrued interest; if he has abstained from wrongdo…
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Summary: Rabba [Rava] bar Natan cites ירושלמי פ"ז ה"ב. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
