Study Avodah Zarah folio 8B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
during all the 30 days that follow the wedding celebration, if the non-Jew invites a Jew to a feast, whether he said to the Jew that the feast is due to the wedding celebration or whether he did not say to him that the feast is due to the wedding celebration, it is prohibited to attend, as it is as
The Talmud asks: And in a case where he said to him that the feast is due to the wedding celebration, until when is the feast assumed to be connected to idol worship? Rav Pappa said: Until 12 months of the year have passed since the wedding. The Talmud asks: And initially, before the wedding, from
The Talmud asks: And after the 12 months of the year have passed since the wedding, is it always permitted to participate in a feast? But Rav Yitzḥak, son of Rav Mesharshiyya, happened to come to the house of a certain non-Jew after 12 months of the year had passed since his son’s wedding, and he he
§ The Mishnah teaches: And Kratesis, and the day of the festival of their kings. The Talmud asks: What is the festival of Kratesis? Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said: It commemorates the day when Rome seized control of an empire. The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in a baraita: Two festivals are
The Talmud elaborates: As when Rav Dimi came from Eretz Yisrael he said: The Romans waged 32 battles with the Greeks but were unable to defeat them, until they formed a partnership with the Jewish people and finally vanquished the Greeks. And this is the condition that they stipulated with the Jewis