Study Shevuot folio 3A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
And for marring the edges of his beard there are two edges from here, on one side of his face, and two from there, on the other side, and one from below.
The Talmud explains: As apparent from the Mishnah in Makkot, this is a case where there is one prohibition for which one is liable to receive two punishments. Continuing on this theme, the tanna taught in the beginning of tractate Shevuot examples of other sets of halakhot that can be formulated sim
The Talmud inquires: What is different here, in tractate Shevuot, that the Mishnah teaches all the sets of halakhot that can be formulated as: Two that are 4, and what is different with regard to the chapter beginning: The acts of carrying out that are prohibited on Shabbat, i.e., the first chapte
The rabbis say in explanation: Since the passages of oaths and of liability based on one’s awareness of the defiling of the Temple or its sacrificial foods are written together in the Torah (see Leviticus 5:2–4), and they are also similar to each other in that they can both incur liability to bring
The Talmud inquires further: Tractate Shevuot opens with a reference to oaths, but then proceeds to explain the cases of one’s awareness of the defiling of the Temple or its sacrificial foods, returning to discuss oaths only in the third chapter. Why? The Talmud explains: Since the cases of one’s aw