Commentary for Nedarim 61:1
<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> הנודר משובתי שַבָּת אסור בישראל ואסור בכותים מאוכלי שום אסור בישראל ואסור בכותים מעולי ירושלים אסור בישראל ומותר בכותים
<b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. HE WHO VOWS [NOT TO BENEFIT] FROM THOSE WHO REST ON THE SABBATH, IS FORBIDDEN [TO BENEFIT] BOTH FROM ISRAELITES AND CUTHEANS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'men of Cuth or Cuthah'; this was one of the five cities from which Sargon, King of Assyria, brought settlers for the depopulated Northern Palestine, after it had been conquered and its inhabitants deported (II Kings XVII, 24, 30). During the period of its depopulation the land had become overrun by lions, who now attacked the settlers; they took this as a sign of the wrath of the local deity, and so, after instruction, they became Jews, though continuing some of their heathen practices. The religious status of the Cutheans (also called Samaritans) was of rather a vacillating nature. The Cutheans observed the Sabbath. ');"><sup>1</sup></span>
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