Study Sotah folio 15B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
And why did Rabban Gamliel speak up? It was because he heard R' Meir saying an alternative explanation: She fed him, i.e., her paramour, delicacies from around the world; therefore, her offering is animal food. Rabban Gamliel said to him: Your explanation works out well in the case of a rich sota
Mishnah: The priest would bring an earthenware drinking vessel [peyalei] and he would pour into it half a log of water from the basin in the Temple. R' Yehuda says: The priest would pour only 1/4th-log of water. Just as R' Yehuda minimizes the writing, as he requires that less be written on the s
The priest would enter the Sanctuary and turn to his right. And there was a place there, on the Sanctuary floor, with an area of a cubit by a cubit, and a marble tablet [tavla] was there, and a ring was fastened to the tablet to assist the priest when he would raise it. And the priest would take lo
Talmud: The rabbis taught: It must be a new earthenware vessel; this is the statement of R' Yishmael. The Talmud asks: What is the reasoning of R' Yishmael? The Talmud answers: R' Yishmael derives this by means of a verbal analogy between “vessel” in the case of the sota (Numbers 5:17) and “ves
And there, with regard to the metzora, from where do we derive that a new vessel is required? The Talmud answers: As it is written: “And he shall slaughter one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water” (Leviticus 14:5). Just as running water has not been used beforehand for work, i.e.,