Study Avodah Zarah folio 49B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Mishnah: If one took wood from an ashera, it is prohibited to derive benefit from it. In a case where one kindled a fire in an oven with the wood, if it is a new oven and by kindling the fire he hardened the oven and made it stronger for use in the future, then the oven must be shattered. Since fo
If this bread was intermingled with other bread, it is prohibited to derive benefit from all the bread. R' Eliezer says: One must take the benefit and cast it into the Dead Sea. In other words, one is not required to destroy all of the loaves. Instead, one should designate money equal in value to
If one took wood from an ashera for use as a weaving shuttle [karkor], it is prohibited to derive benefit from it. If one wove a garment with it, it is prohibited to derive benefit from the garment. If the garment was intermingled with other garments, and those other garments were intermingled wit
Talmud: The Mishnah presents two cases where R' Eliezer and the Rabbis disagree. The Talmud explains: And both are necessary; as if the Mishnah had taught us only the first case, concerning the forbidden bread, one might have thought that it is only in this case that R' Eliezer says that the bread
And if the Mishnah had taught us only the case of the shuttle, one might have thought that it is only in this case that the Rabbis say that the forbidden garment may not be redeemed, because the original forbidden piece of wood is still extant. But in the case of the bread, where the forbidden woo