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and he should clean the pressing baskets with ashes and water if they were made of palm leaves or of hemp [bitzbutz], or leave them dormant if they were made of bast [shifa] or of reeds, because these absorb more of the wine. And how long must one leave them dormant? He must leave them for 12 mont
The Talmud interrupts its citation to analyze the baraita: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel’s statement is the same as that of the first tanna, as there are 12 months between one wine-pressing season and the next. The Talmud responds: The difference between them is the matter of the early and late ripenin
The Talmud continues its citation of the baraita. R' Yosei says: One who wishes to purify the baskets immediately, without waiting a year, purges them in boiling water or scalds them in olive water. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says in the name of R' Yosei: One sets them under a pipe whose water flows
The Talmud expresses surprise at this last clause: Isn’t it the opposite [kelapei layya]? We are dealing with matters of purity in this baraita. Rather, the baraita means: In the same way that the rabbis stated this time frame with regard to matters of ritual purity, so too the rabbis stated this t
The Talmud asks: And how long is the period of time referred to in the baraita? R' Ḥiyya bar Abba says that R' Yoḥanan says: Either the day or the night. R' Ḥana She’ona, and some say R' Ḥana bar She’ona, say that Rabba bar bar Ḥana says that R' Yoḥanan says: Half a day and half a night.