Talmud for Menachot 87:11
אותן מצעות שהציעה לו באיסור הציעה לו בהיתר זה מתן שכרו בעה"ז ולעה"ב איני יודע כמה
Thereupon she arose and divided her estate into three parts; one third for the government,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that they should not hinder her in her purpose of being converted to Judaism.');"><sup>7</sup></span> one third to be distributed among the poor, and one third she took with her in her hand; the bed clothes, however, she retained.
Tractate Tzitzit
Should a man dye [the zizith of] a ṭallith for himself, they are invalid for religious use if he intended to test [the dye].27The dyeing of zizith must be for the specified purpose of the commandment. The reading ‘to test’ [lenassoth] is preferable to the variant ‘to cover himself’ [lekassoth]. If he dyed them [with an ordinary dye], even four or five times, they are invalid, since the blue [of the zizith] must be dyed only with that of ḥillazon.28A species of mollusc. What does the ḥillazon resemble? In its formation it resembles a fish and [the colour of] its body resembles [the blueness of] the sky. Its appearance is a very rare occurrence29lit. ‘it only rises [from the sea] in seventy years’. and consequently it is very costly.
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