Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 46:10
אמר אביי ת"ש סעודות גדולות היו עושין להם שם כדי שיהו רגילים לבוא דלמא תרתי הוו עבדי בהו:
as it is written, being bound in chains?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. XL, 1. The Hebrew word is .');"><sup>19</sup></span> - Abaye said: Come and hear [a proof that it is the former]: THEY USED TO ENTERTAIN THEM LAVISHLY THERE SO THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE AN INDUCEMENT TO COME. [This is not conclusive], as perhaps they treated them in both ways.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., both kindly and rigorously.');"><sup>20</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah
HALAKHAH: Rebbi Joḥanan said, even the most error-prone person would not err in this matter, before the sun, after the sun75Whether the moon was seen closer to the earth than the sun or farther away.? It only is needed for its concavity; the concavity towards the sun, or the concavity away from the sun74As explained in the Halakhah, this refers to the concavity of the visible moon, which must point away from the sun.? Bar Qappara stated both: Before the sun or behind the sun, the concavity towards the sun or the concavity away from the sun? Rebbi Joḥanan said, it is written76Job 25:2. Babli 23b. Deut. rabba 5(12).: Rule and fear are with Him, Who makes peace in His heights. During the existence of the sun it never saw the defect of the moon.
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