Study Gittin folio 17A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Persian priest [ḥabbara] and took the lamp [sheragga] from before them. It was a Persian holiday on which the Persians prohibited the public from maintaining light outside their temple. Rabba, who was from Eretz Yisrael, said: Merciful One! Let us live either in Your shadow or in the shadow of the
The Talmud asks: Is this to say that the Romans are preferable to the Persians? But didn’t R' Ḥiyya teach: What is the meaning of that which is written: “God understands its way and He knows its place” (Job 28:23)? This means that God knows with regard to the Jewish people that they are unable to ac
The Talmud explains: This is not difficult, as this interpretation of R' Ḥiyya refers to the period before the Persians reached Babylonia, when life there was very comfortable. That statement of Rabba was issued after the Persians reached Babylonia, when the situation changed and living there bec
§ The Mishnah taught that if one person says: It was written in my presence, and two say: It was signed in our presence, it is valid. R' Ami says that R' Yoḥanan says: They taught that the document is valid only when the bill of divorce is produced by the witness to the writing, i.e., the one who
The Talmud comments: Apparently, R' Yoḥanan holds that two people who brought a bill of divorce from a country overseas are required to say: It was written in our presence and it was signed in our presence, and if they do not state this declaration the bill of divorce is invalid. R' Asi said to R'