It became necessary, therefore, to find some way of modifying the law, not directly, but by the institution of other in a measure counteracting laws. difference is, that most of the laws laid down in the preceding two volumes are founded on biblical behests, while those instituted in the present volume are of purely rabbinical origin, notwithstanding the assertion of a solitary individual who appears in the course of a debate and declares that the legal-limit branch of the Erub is a biblical enactment.Ī remarkable feature of the Tract is the exposition of the manner in which the shrewd sages circumvene the rigorous prohibitions contained in the Tract Sabbath and how they take advantage of every loophole afforded them through imperfections in the law, at the same time avoiding any palpable infraction of the law itself.Īs already explained in the introduction to Volume I., the restrictions with which the Sabbath was surrounded had their unquestionable political import, but their very rigor made the sages, than whom none knew the people better, doubt whether enforcement and still less voluntary observance could ever be possible. THIS Tract, virtually the third of the Sabbath series, treats of subjects similar to those discussed in the first two. Square parentheses contained commentaries by authorities of the last period of construction of the Gemara. Words or passages enclosed in round parentheses () denote the explanation rendered by Rashi to the foregoing sentence or word. As the pages of the original are indicated in our new Hebrew edition, it is not deemed necessary to mark them in the English edition, this being only a translation from the latter.ĥ. When in the original there occur two statements separated by the phrase, Lishna achrena or Waïbayith Aema or Ikha d’amri (literally, “otherwise interpreted”), we translate only the second.Ĥ. Questions are indicated by the interrogation point, and are immediately followed by the answers, without being so marked.ģ. Tenan of the original-We have learned in a Mishna Tania-We have, learned in a Boraitha Itemar-It was taught.Ģ. In our translation we adopted these principles:ġ.
Erubin Of Limits, Food Required For Erubin, Erubin Of Courts Location Of Erubin And Limits On Sabbath Travel This online edition was created and published by Global Grey on the 26th March 2023.
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