Study Chullin folio 24B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
“It came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard” (II Chronicles 5:13). This indicates that the Levites must be capable of singing in one voice, and one who is unable to do so is unfit for service.
The baraita teaches that the priest is eligible for service until he ages. The Talmud asks: Until when, i.e., what is the definition of aging in this context? R' Ela says that R' Ḥanina says: Until his hands and feet begin to tremble.
We learned in a Mishnah there (Mikvaot 8:4): With regard to one who experienced a seminal emission who then immersed in a mikveh and did not urinate before immersing, when he urinates he is ritually impure, because residue of the semen remain in his body and was discharged with the urine, rendering
Until when is one considered a young person? R' Ela says that R' Ḥanina says: Anyone who is able to stand on one of his legs and remove his shoe or put on his shoe is considered young. They said about R' Ḥanina that he was 80 years old and would stand on one of his legs and remove his shoe or put on
A baraita states: If one’s beard is fully grown, he is fit to be appointed an emissary of the community for various matters, and to descend before the ark as a prayer leader, and to lift his hands for the Priestly Benediction. From when is a priest fit for Temple service? It is from the time he re