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like the actions of a forewarned ox that gored an ox, a donkey, and a camel. Since this ox gored 3 different animals on 3 separate occasions, it is considered predisposed to gore and becomes forewarned for every type of animal. Likewise, if someone performs 3 different deranged actions, it is assum
A dilemma was raised before the rabbis with regard to Rav Pappa’s statement: When Rav Pappa claims that Rav Huna would have retracted his statement, would he have retracted only from the case of one who tears his garments, as this person is similar to one who destroys whatever is given to him? Or pe
§ The Mishnah taught: And a tumtum and a hermaphrodite are exempt from the mitzva of appearance in the Temple. A baraita states, with regard to the verse: “3 occasions in the year all your males will appear before YHWH God” (Exodus 23:17), had the verse simply said “males,” this would serve to exc
The Master said in the baraita: “Males” comes to exclude women. The Talmud asks: Why do I need a verse for this halakha? After all, the obligation of appearance on a Festival is a positive, time-bound mitzva, and women are exempt from any positive, time-bound mitzva.
The Talmud answers: This statement was necessary, as otherwise it could enter your mind to say: Let us derive by means of a verbal analogy between the term: Appearance, which appears here, and the term: Appearance, stated with regard to the mitzva of assembly (Deuteronomy 31:11), which is also a