SATURDAY PRAYER: TIFERET-YESHIVAT HAVERIM יְשִׁיבָה חברים – BABYLONIAN TALMUD p182

READING: BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN OF SATURDAY

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 different, because the Scriptures themselves added a special provision
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.”