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with a distance of 90 ris between them. As there are 7½ ris for each mil, the total distance was 12 mil. At each and every booth, people there say to him: Here is food; here is water, if you need it. And they escort him from booth to booth, except for the last person at the last booth, who does n
What did the one designated to dispatch the goat do there? He divided a strip of crimson into two parts, half of the strip tied to the rock, and half of it tied between the two horns of the goat. And he pushed the goat backward, and it rolls and descends. And it would not reach halfway down the moun
Talmud: A baraita states: There were 10 booths, and the distance between Jerusalem and the cliff was 12 mil; this is the statement of R' Meir. R' Yehuda says: There were 9 booths and the distance was 10 mil. R' Yosei says: There were 5 booths and the distance was 10 mil, and all of them were abl
R' Yosei said: Elazar my son told me: If they were able to walk to the next booth by establishing an eiruv, I could even make two booths suffice for the distance of 10 mil. With the proper placement of an eiruv, an individual is permitted to walk a distance of two mil, which is 4,000 cubits. Conseq
The Talmud comments: In accordance with whose opinion is that which was taught in the baraita: People from all the booths would escort the one leading the goat, except for the last person in the last booth, who did not reach the cliff with him; rather, he stands from a distance and observes his acti