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The baraita continues: And a butcher may buy small livestock and slaughter them, and again buy small livestock and keep them for a while, provided that he does not keep the last one of them that he bought beyond 30 days.
His students asked Rabban Gamliel: What is the halakha with regard to raising small livestock in Eretz Yisrael? Rabban Gamliel said to them: It is permitted. The Talmud interrupts its citation of the baraita to pose a question: How could Rabban Gamliel say this? But didn’t we learn in the Mishnah:
Rather, the text of the baraita must be emended, and they actually raised this dilemma before him: What is the halakha with regard to keeping them for a while? The Talmud resumes the quotation of the baraita: Rabban Gamliel said to them: It is permitted, provided that the animal does not go out an
A baraita states: There was an incident involving a certain pious man who was groaning, i.e., suffering, due to a pain in his heart. Those caring for the man asked the physicians what to do for him, and they said: There is no other remedy for him but that he should suckle warm milk every morning.
Days later, his friends came in to visit him. When they saw that she-goat tied to the legs of the bed, they turned back, saying: There is an armed bandit in this man’s house, and we are going in to visit him? They referred to the goat in this manner because small animals habitually graze on the ve