Study Avodah Zarah folio 31A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
It is prohibited to derive benefit from nondescript wine of a non-Jew, and the wine imparts the ritual impurity of liquids when it has the volume of 1/4th of a log. With regard to the wine of one who deposits his wine with a non-Jew, one is prohibited from drinking it, but one is permitted to deriv
The Talmud raises a difficulty: But didn’t we learn in a Mishnah (Bekhorot 11b): With regard to one who deposits his produce with a non-Jew, it has the status of the produce of a non-Jew with regard to the halakhot of the Sabbatical Year and with regard to tithe, as the non-Jew might have exchange
The Talmud questions this: If that is so, drinking from the wine should also be permitted. As R' Yoḥanan once happened to come to Parod, where the deceased tanna bar Kappara had lived. When he arrived, he said: Is there any Mishnah of bar Kappara here? In response, R' Tanḥum of Parod taught him the
Upon hearing this, R' Yoḥanan read the following verse about him: “Where the tree falls, there it shall be” (Ecclesiastes 11:3). Does it enter your mind that this means that the tree itself will be there? It is obvious that a fallen tree lands where it falls. Rather, the verse is saying: There its
In any event, it is apparent from the baraita quoted by R' Tanḥum that there is a case in which it is permitted to drink wine deposited with a non-Jew. This contradicts the statement of R' Yehuda ben Beteira. R' Zeira said that it is not difficult. This baraita, which permits drinking wine deposited