Study Kiddushin folio 62A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
“You shall be devoured by the sword” (Isaiah 1:20)? Rava says: This verse should be interpreted as if it states: You shall devour the sword, i.e., you shall eat food that harms the body like a sword, e.g., coarse grains [gelalenita] of salt, hard barley bread, and onions. As the Master said: Dried
The Talmud asks: Granted, according to the opinion of R' Ḥanina ben Gamliel, this is the reason that it is written with regard to a sota: “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, you shall be free [hinnaki]” (Numbers 5:19), without specif
The Talmud continues: Granted, according to the opinion of R' Meir, this is the reason that it is written hinnaki without the yod, to allude to the other side of the condition. But according to the opinion of R' Ḥanina ben Gamliel, why do I need this word to be written in this way? The Talmud answer
Granted, according to the opinion of R' Meir, this is the reason that it is written, with regard to one being purified with the water of purification from contact with a corpse: “He shall purify himself with it on the 3rd day and on the 7th day, and he shall be pure; but if he does not purify himse
The Talmud answers: It is necessary, as it might enter your mind to say: The mitzva of sprinkling the water of purification must be performed on the third and 7th days ab initio, but if he performed it on one of them alone, the ritual is considered performed and he is purified after the fact. The v