Study Avodah Zarah folio 71A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Talmud: And the Talmud raises a contradiction to the assumption that soldiers during wartime do not have time to commit transgressions from that which is taught in another Mishnah (Ketubot 27a): With regard to a city that was conquered by an army laying siege, all the women married to priests locat
Mishnah: With regard to Jewish craftsmen to whom a non-Jew sent a jug of wine used for a libation in lieu of their wage, it is permitted for them to say to him: Give us its monetary value instead. But once it has entered into their possession, it is prohibited for them to say so, as that would be
Talmud: Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: It is permitted for a person to say to a non-Jew: Go and placate the collectors of the governmental tax on wine for me, and I will reimburse you subsequently, even if he pays the tax with wine used for a libation.
One of the rabbis raised an objection from a baraita: A person may not say to a non-Jew: Go in my stead to the commissary [la’otzer] to pay the wine tax for me, if he pays it in wine used for a libation. Rav said to him: You say that the case I am referring to is similar to one who says to a non-Jew
Mishnah: In the case of a Jew who sells his wine to a non-Jew, if he fixed a price before he measured the wine into the non-Jew’s vessel, deriving benefit from the money paid for the wine is permitted. It is not tantamount to selling wine used for a libation, as the non-Jew purchased the wine bef