Babylonian Talmud

Rodkinson 1918 — source 1, scan section 76

in the seaports hair braiding and dressing is called building. We have learned in a Boraitha, R. Simeon b. Elazar said : " Braiding the hair, painting the eyebrows, and parting the hair, if done for herself, does not make her culpable (because it cannot be properly termed building) ; but if done for another it does make her culpable." Furthermore, R. Simeon b. Elazar said in the name of R. EHezer : " A woman shall not put red dye on her face, because that constitutes painting." The rabbis taught : If one milked a cow and then made cheese of the milk to the size of a dried fig ; if he swept a floor or damp- ened a floor (to lay the dust) ; or if he removed honeycombs from a beehive, his case is as follows : If he performed these acts un- intentionally on Sabbath, he is bound to bring a sin-offering, and if he did all this intentionally on a biblical feast-day, he shall receive forty stripes. Such is the opinion of R. Eliezer, but the sages said : " All this is only prohibited by rabbinical law as a precautionary measure." (Says the Gemara 🙂 Now the ordinance having prevailed according to the opinion of R. Simeon, all these acts are not prohibited at all. MISHNA VIII. : One who plucks something from a perfo- rated flower-pot is culpable ; from a flower-pot that is not perfo- rated he is not culpable. R. Simeon held him not culpable in both cases. Abayi put a contradictory question to Rabha, according to others R. Hyya b. Rabh to his father Rabh : " The Mishna states * The Hebrew word for "formed" is " Vayiven," literally "built." i82 THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD. that R. Simeon holds one not culpable in either case. From this we see well that to R. Simeon a perforated or a solid flower-pot is one and the same thing. We have learned in another Boraitha : R. Simeon said that there is no difference between a perforated and a solid flower-pot except to make the seeds grown in the flower-pot subject to defilement {i.e., in a solid flower-pot the seeds are not accounted as seeds). Hence there is a difference between the pots in the opinion of R. Simeon." The answer was : In all cases except defilement R. Simeon regards seeds in either a perforated or a solid flower-pot as loose {i.e., detached from the ground). In the case of defilement, however, it is dif- ferent, because the Scriptures themselves added a special provi- sion regarding defilement of seeds, as it is written [Lev. xi. 37] : " And if any part of their carcass fall upon any sowing-seed which hath been sown, it shall be clean." END OF VOLUME I. Princeton Theological Seminary Libraries 1 1012 01249 6867 iiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniMiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiniiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii