Study Avodah Zarah folio 36B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
It is the verse: “You are cursed with the curse, yet you rob Me, even this whole nation” (Malachi 3:9). This teaches that if there is the acceptance of the whole nation, yes, an ordinance may be instituted, but if not, no, the ordinance may not be instituted.
§ The Talmud discusses the matter itself: Balei says that Avimi of Nota says in the name of Rav: The prohibitions with regard to non-Jews’ bread and their oil, their wine and their daughters, are all from the 18 matters issued in a single day in the time of the students of Shammai and Hillel. The T
The Talmud presents another opinion. And Geneiva says in the name of Rav: non-Jews’ bread, oil, wine, and daughters were all decreed upon due to the concern that Jews might participate in idol worship with non-Jews as a result of intermingling with them. As, when Rav Aḥa bar Adda came from Eretz Yi
The Talmud offers a different interpretation: Rather, they issued a decree prohibiting their bread and their oil due to their wine. And they issued the decree prohibiting their wine due to the fact that this leads to familiarity, and Jews will come to marry their daughters. And they issued a decree
It was stated that the prohibition against marrying the daughters of non-Jews was decreed on account of idolatry. The Talmud raises an objection: But the prohibition against marrying their daughters is prescribed by Torah law, as it is written: “Neither shall you make marriages with them” (Deuterono