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is like one who purchases a field in the outskirts [parvarei] of Jerusalem. The Talmud clarifies: The tanna who says Syria is obligated in tithe and the mitzvot of the Sabbatical Year like Eretz Yisrael holds that the conquest of an individual is called a conquest. Once Syria was conquered by King
The baraita teaches: And one who wishes to enter it and remain in a state of ritual purity may so enter. The Talmud asks: But didn’t you say that its soil is ritually impure? How then is it possible for one to enter it in a state of ritual purity? The Talmud answers: The baraita means that one ent
As it is taught in a baraita: With regard to one who enters the land of the nations, i.e., any territory outside of Eretz Yisrael, in a chest, a box, or a cabinet, R' Yehuda HaNasi deems him ritually impure, and R' Yosei, son of R' Yehuda, deems him pure. And even R' Yehuda HaNasi deems one who di
The baraita further teaches: And one who purchases a field in Syria is like one who purchases a field in the outskirts of Jerusalem. The Talmud asks: With regard to which halakha was this stated? What practical ruling is taught by this statement? Rav Sheshet says: This serves to say that one write
The Talmud asks: Can it enter your mind that one may write this bill of sale on Shabbat? Writing on Shabbat is a prohibited labor for which one is liable to receive court-imposed capital punishment. The Talmud explains: This is as Rava says with regard to a similar issue, that one tells a non-Jew t