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The Gemora concludes that the words “toshav v’sachir” mentioned in respect to the Pesach offering are extra. What does “toshav v’sachir” mean when it is written here? It cannot be referring to the two types of Jewish servants (a Jewish servant who is acquired for an acquisition of years, and a Jewish servant who is acquired as an everlasting acquisition) because for what reason should they be exempt from eating the Pesach offering? We have previously established that they cannot eat terumah beca… Continue

Shmuel once said to Rav Chana Bagdasaah (from Baghdath, or an Aggada expert), “Go out and bring me ten people (so that the ruling should be publicized) in order for me to say to you before them that one who gives something to a fetus, the fetus has acquired it.”

It would seem form this Gemora that if something should be publicized, ten people are required.

This is also evident from the Gemora Sanhedrin (74b) which states that a person who is in public must be martyred even for… Continue

FOOD FOR THOUGHT REGARDING TEFILLOS

Our Gemora tells us that Hashem desires the prayers of the righteous. The Matriarchs were barren only so that they should pray to Hashem for children. Their desire for progeny caused the Matriarchs and the Patriarchs to pray to Hashem at…

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Rav Chana bar Bizna said in the name of Rabbi Shimon the Pious: The Midianite women were passed before the tzitz (the golden plate worn on the forehead of the Kohen Gadol). Any woman whose face turned sickly was determined to be fit for cohabitation; any woman whose face did not turn sickly was determined to be too young for cohabitation.

Rav Nachman said: A symptom of sin is hydrokan (a bloating of the stomach).

Rashi states that this was a miracle.

Later on, the Gemo… Continue