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Mishnah Moed Katan — 1
[Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 1] One may water an irrigated field on the Moed [intermediate days of Pesach and Sukkot, upon which some forms of melakhah are prohibited] and during the Sabbatical year, whether from a new emerging spring, as well as from a spring that is not just now emerging. But they may not irrigate it from [stored] rain-water, nor from water [drawn] from a deep well; nor may they make [dig] trenches [to hold water] around vines. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 2] Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah says, One may not make [dig] a fresh trench [conduit, or water course] on the Moed, or during the Sabbatical year. But the sages hold, that a fresh trench [water course] may be dug during the Sabbatical year, and one may repair those [conduits] which are damaged on the Moed. They may [likewise] repair water works [which are] in the public domain and clean them. They may also repair the roads, the market [public] places, and the ritual baths. All public needs may be performed. They may also mark [whitewash] graves, and even send out [inspectors to uproot] Kilayim [planting together certain plants]. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 3] Rabbi Eleazar ben Yaakov says: one may draw water from tree to another, provided the entire field is not watered. Plants that have not been watered before the Moed may not be watered during the Moed. The sages permit it in both cases. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 4] One may trap moles and mice in an orchard or a white field [wheat field] in an unusual way on the Moed and during the Sabbatical year. But the sages hold that in an orchard field [one may trap them] in the usual way, but in a white -field [they may be trapped only] in an unusual way. One may repair a breach [in a garden wall by filling it with loose stones] during the Moed and during the Sabbatical year they may repair it in the ordinary way. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 5] Rabbi Meir says, initial inspections of lepers signs may be viewed [by the priest] on the Moed for a lenient assessment [to render him clean], but not for a stringent one [to render him unclean]." But the Sages say, decide neither [the priest may not inspect] for a lenient one nor a stringent one. Furthermore, Rabbi Meir said, "A man may gather the bones of his father and mother [to re-inter them during the Moed], because it is a joy for him [relieves his mind]. Rabbi Yose says, It is mourning for him [afflicts his mind]. A man should not stir up wailing over his dead [bring professional eulogizers], nor should he eulogize him for thirty days before the festival. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 6] One may not dig kuchin [dug out graves] or [built] graves on the Moed, but one may adapt kuchin [to the size of the dead person] on the Moed. One may make a nivrechet [a clothes washing pit] during the Moed, and [one may make] a coffin if the deceased is in the same court [so that pople know it is not an ordinary construction]. Rabbi Yehudah forbids it, unless there were pre-sawn boards on hand. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 7] One may not marry a woman 0n the moed whether she is a virgin or a widow, nor may one perform yibum [a levirate marriage], because it is a [cause of] joy to him, but he remarry his divorced wife. A woman may make her adornments [use cosmetics] on the Moed. Rabbi Yehudah says, She may not apply lime [chalk as a cosmetic], because it [may] cause her pain. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 8] An ordinary person [who is not a professional] may sew [make stitches] in the [regular] way, but the craftsman [whose trade it is to sew, may only do it] in a zigzag fashion. One may interlace [the ropes of the bed frame. Rabbi Yose says: they may even be tightened. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 9] One may erect an oven, or a hearth, or a mill, on the Moed [for the use of the festival]. Rabbi Yehudah says: a pair of millstones may not be roughened for the first time [on the Moed. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 1 / 10] One may make a railing around a roof or a porch in a rough manner, but not as a craftsman. Plaster may be smeared on the crevices [on the roof] and [then] flattened with a roller, or by hand or foot, but not with a flattening tool. Hinges [of a door], or sockets, beams, a lock or the key which were broken, may be repaired on the Moed, provided he does not intend to do the work on the Moed. All [kinds of] pickled foods of which he can eat during the Moed, may be pickled.
Mishnah Moed Katan — 2
[Mishnah Moed Katan / 2 / 1] If one has turned over his olives [to soften them before pressing], and [then] mourning [for the death of parent etc.] befell him or some unforeseen circumstance befell him, or his laborers disappointed him [by not showing up to work], he may put on the beam for the first time [on the festival] and leave it there until after the festival. These are the words of Rabbi Yehudah. Rabbi Yose says, He may pour [the olives] into the press, complete the process, and seal [the casks] in the usual manner. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 2 / 2] Similarly, if one has wine is in the cistern, and [then] mourning [for the death of parent etc.] befell him or some unforeseen circumstance befell him, or his laborers disappointed him [by not showing up to work] , he may pour [the wine into casks], complete the process, and seal [the casks] in the usual manner, these are the words of Rabbi Yose. Rabbi Yehudah says, He only has to cover the cistern with boards to prevent it from turning sour. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 2 / 3] A man may bring his produce indoors for fear of thieves, and take flax out of the soaking pool, that it not become spoiled, provided he does not intend to do the work on the moed. All those who deliberately intended to do the work on the moed shall have it destroyed. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 2 / 4] One may not purchase houses, slaves, or cattle, unless it is for the use of the festival, or for the use of the seller who otherwise might have nothing to eat. One may not move belongings from one house to another, but he may move [his belongings] if both houses are in the same courtyard. One may not bring back vessels from the house of the craftsman, but if one is wary about leaving them [lest they get lost] he may move them to another courtyard. [Mishnah Moed Katan / 2 / 5] One may cover dried figs with straw. Rabbi Yehudah says, They may even be piled up in heaps. Sellers of fruit, garments, or utensils, may privately sell what is required for use on the moed . Hunters, grinders of cereals, and millers of grits may engage in their work in private for the requirements of the festival. Rabbi Yose says, they were strict upon themselves.
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Recorded completeness: PARTIAL historical Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna translation by D. A. de Sola and M. J. Raphall, 1843. This distribution supplies only 12 tractate exports, several with missing chapters/paragraphs. Coverage is the actual acquired nonempty source only; it is not all eighteen historical treatises or all 63 Mishnah tractates. Full Hebrew corpus is a separate edition. Actual coverage: 12 exact source components, 77 chapter/section passages, 577 nonempty original paragraph/verse rows. Reference labels are deterministic paths in the original JSON, not invented missing historical chapter numbers. Reader navigation uses actual source book, tractate or named section labels; source component order is retained in evidence.. Available reading sections are listed below.
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- Moed-Katan · 2 passage record(s)
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