Study Shabbat folio 86B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud asks: Didn’t some of the people have status of those who immersed themselves during the day when they received the Torah? Some of the women immersed themselves on Shabbat evening to purify themselves from the discharge of semen. Even after immersion, the purification process is not comple
The Talmud asks: And let them immerse during twilight on Friday and receive the Torah just after that during twilight. Why was it necessary to delay revelation until Shabbat morning? R' Yitzḥak said that the verse said in that regard: “From the first, I did not speak in concealment” (Isaiah 48:16).
R' Ḥiyya, son of R' Abba, said that R' Yoḥanan said: These are the statements of R' Yishmael and R' Akiva. However, the Rabbis say: We require that 6 complete 12-hour periods elapse between cohabitation and discharge. If a woman discharged semen less than 72 hours after having sex, the semen renders
Rav Pappa raised a dilemma: What is the halakha with regard to semen of a Jew in the womb of a non-Jew woman? Do we say that since Jews are concerned about fulfilling mitzvot, due to that concern, their body temperature is hot and semen that is not absorbed becomes foul faster, in contrast to non-
A baraita states: On the 6th day of the month of Sivan, the 10 Commandments were given to the Jewish people. R' Yosei says: On the 7th day of the month. Rava said: Everyone agrees that the Jews came to the Sinai desert on the New Moon, as it is written here: “In the 3rd month after the children of