Study Sotah folio 41A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
“And he read there before the broad place that was before the Gate of the Water” (Nehemiah 8:3). According to this opinion, the High Priest would read from the Torah in the Temple courtyard. Rav Ḥisda says in response: The baraita also means that the reading takes place in the women’s courtyard.
§ It is taught in the Mishnah that the High Priest receives the Torah scroll and reads the Torah portion beginning with the verse: “After the death” (Leviticus 16:1), and the portion beginning with the verse: “But on the tenth” (Leviticus 23:26). Since these two portions are not adjacent to each oth
Abaye said: This is not difficult. There, in the Mishnah in tractate Megilla that teaches that one may not skip, the intention is that one should not skip if the sections are so far apart from one another that the delay caused by doing so will be of such length that the translator who recites the
The Talmud challenges this resolution: But isn’t it taught about this Mishnah in a baraita: One may skip sections when reading in the Prophets, but one may not skip sections when reading in the Torah. And how much may one skip from one passage to another in the Prophets? One may skip when the secti
Rather, Abaye said another explanation: This is not difficult. In the Mishnah here, it is permitted to skip because both passages pertain to a single topic. There, in the Mishnah in tractate Megilla that teaches that one may not skip, the halakha is referring to a case where the passages pertain