Study Shabbat folio 79B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
We learned in the Mishnah: The measure that determines liability for carrying out parchment is equivalent to that which is used to write the shortest portion in the tefillin. And the Talmud raised a contradiction from that which was taught: The measure that determines liability for carrying out parc
The Talmud asks: And from the fact that the latter clause of the Mishnah teaches: The measure that determines liability for carrying out parchment is equivalent to that which is used to write the shortest portion in the tefillin, which is the portion of Shema Yisrael, by inference, in the first cla
Rav said: Dokhsostos has the same legal status as parchment: Just as one may write the portions of the tefillin on parchment, so too, one may write the portions of the tefillin on dokhsostos. The Talmud asks, we learned in the Mishnah: The measure that determines liability for carrying out parchmen
The Talmud asks: And wasn’t it taught in a baraita that if one deviated and wrote on something else it is invalid, indicating that the portions of the tefillin may not be written on anything other than parchment? The Talmud rejects this: This baraita is referring to a mezuza, which is invalid if w
The Talmud elaborates: If he wrote it; wrote what? If you say that it is referring to a mezuza, do we write a mezuza on parchment? Rather, isn’t it referring to tefillin? Apparently, as Rav said, there are rabbis who hold that the portions of the tefillin may be written on dokhsostos. The Talmud r