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Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman, happened to come to Meḥoza. Rava said to his attendant, Rav Elyakim: Close, close the gates, so that people who might disturb us should not come, and we may focus on clarifying the matter.
Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman, entered into Rava’s presence. Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman, said to Rava: What is the halakha in a case like this where a non-Jew stirred the wine without intending to offer it as an idolatrous libation? Rava said to Rav Huna, son of Rav Naḥman: It is prohibited even to d
Rava said: When I arrived at Pumbedita, Naḥmani, i.e., Abaye, surrounded us with amoraic traditions and with tannaitic sources cited in a baraita that indicate that in the case of wine that was stirred by a non-Jew it is prohibited even to derive benefit from the wine.
Rava explains: Abaye cited amoraic traditions, as there was a certain incident in Neharde’a in which a non-Jew stirred the wine, and Shmuel deemed the wine prohibited, and there was a similar incident in Tiberias and R' Yoḥanan deemed the wine prohibited. Rava recounts his reply: And I said to Aba
Abaye cited a baraita that teaches as follows: In the case of a non-Jew market inspector [de’agardamim] who was in charge of measures and prices in the marketplace, who drilled a hole in a jug with a tube and drew wine from the jug through the tube in order to taste it, or who tasted the wine from t