📖 SATURDAY PRAYER: MALCHUT-YESHIVAT HAVERIM יְשִׁיבָה חברים – BABYLONIAN TALMUD p157

READING: BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN OF SATURDAY

R. Assi said: “The teaching of R. Aqiba in the Mishna refers to a patch of ground six spans
square, excluding the corners.
Rabh said: “The above Mishna has reference only to an isolated patch (or furrow) of ground, but
in a furrow surrounded by others one can not sow five kinds of grain, (as it is necessary to have
a space of three spans dividing one kind from the other). Are there not corners, however, (to the
furrow)?” The school of Rabh explained, in the name of Rabh, that reference is made to furrows
into the corners of which grain had been sown.
Samuel, however, said, even in a furrow surrounded by other furrows. But will not the seeds
interfere one with another? Samuel refers to furrows which are planted alternately from north to
east and from south to west. 1
MISHNA IV.: (R. Aqiba says again): Whence the adduction that a woman, from whom seed of
copulation 2 escapes only on the third day (after lying with her husband), is unclean? From the
passage [Exodus, xix. 15]: “And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day.
Approach not unto a woman.” Whence the adduction that a child may be bathed on the third day
of its circumcision, even if that day fall on a Sabbath? From the passage [Gen. xxxiv. 25]: “And
it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore.” Whence the adduction that a string of
crimson wool must be tied on the head of the goat that was to be sent away? 3 From the passage
[Isaiah, i. 18]: “Though they should be red like crimson, they shall become (white) like wool.”
Whence do we adduce that anointing one’s self on the Day of Atonement is equal to drinking?
Although no positive proof is apparent, still a reference
can be adduced from the passage [Psalms, cix. 18]: “And it cometh like water on his body and
oil into his bones.”