Study Shabbat folio 90A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
They taught this halakha in the case of sweet types, because they are fit to be mixed together to sweeten the food in a pot. The Talmud infers: The reason that they join together with one another is that they are suitable to sweeten the food in a pot together. However, if that is not so, then the
We learned in the Mishnah: The measure that determines liability for carrying out nutshells, pomegranate peels, safflower and madder, which are used to produce dyes, is equivalent to that which is used to dye a small garment that is placed atop a woman’s hairnet. And the Talmud raised a contradicti
The Mishnah mentioned abrasive materials used for laundry, among them urine. The Talmud clarifies the nature of the listed materials. The rabbis taught in a baraita: The urine mentioned in the Mishnah is urine that is up to 40 days old. After that, its acidity weakens, rendering it unsuitable for
The Talmud raises an objection based on plants whose use is prohibited during the Sabbatical year. They added bulbs of ornithogalum and wormwood, and borit, and aloe. And if it would enter your mind to say that borit is sulphur, is there sulphur that is subject to the halakhot of the Sabbatical year
With regard to the cimolian earth mentioned in the Mishnah, Rav Yehuda said: This is the earth referred to as pull out stick in [shelof dotz]. With regard to the eshlag mentioned in the Mishnah, Shmuel said: I asked all of the seafarers with regard to the identity of eshlag, and they told me that