Study Arakhin folio 15B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Do not go out, as indicated in the verse: “And Moses said: Eat that today; for today is a Sabbath for YHWH; today you will not find it in the field” (Exodus 16:25). But nevertheless there were people who went out to look for manna, as it is written: “And it came to pass on the 7th day that some of
The Talmud continues its elucidation of the baraita: There were two trials relating to the quail, one was on the first occasion when the quail appeared, and the other on the second occasion the quail appeared. The Talmud clarifies: The trial of the first quail is described in the verse: “And the chi
The second trial of the quail is described in the verse: “And the mixed multitude that was among them desired; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: Would that we were given meat to eat” (Numbers 11:4). Later the verse states: “And there went forth a wind from YHWH, and broug
The Talmud concludes its detailing of the Jewish people’s 10 trials of God: The trial of the golden calf is as it is described in the Torah (Exodus, chapter 32), and the trial in the wilderness of Paran is as it is described in the Torah (Numbers, chapter 13).
§ The Talmud returns to the topic of lashon hara. R' Yoḥanan says in the name of R' Yosei ben Zimra: What is the meaning of that which is written: “What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done for you, you deceitful tongue” (Psalms 120:3)? God said to the tongue: All the other limbs of a