Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud for Shabbat 215:6

שמואל וקרנא הוו יתבי אגודא דנהר מלכא חזינהו למיא דקא דלו ועכירי א"ל שמואל לקרנא גברא רבה קאתי ממערבא וחייש במעיה וקא דלו מיא לאקבולי אפיה קמיה זיל תהי ליה אקנקניה אזל אשכחיה לרב א"ל מניין שאין כותבין תפילין אלא על גבי עור בהמה טהורה א"ל דכתיב (שמות יג, ט) למען תהיה תורת ה' בפיך מן המותר בפיך מניין לדם שהוא אדום שנאמר (מלכים ב ג, כב) ויראו מואב מנגד את המים אדומים כדם

So he went and met Rab. He asked him, How do we know that tefillin maybe written only on the skin of a clean [edible] animal? Because it is written, that the Law of the Lord may be in thy mouth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XIII, 9. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> [meaning] of that which is permitted in thy mouth, he replied. How do we know that blood is red? he asked.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Only blood that is red or of colours akin to redness defiles a woman as a menstruant (Nid. 19a), and this was the point of his question. ');"><sup>14</sup></span> — Because it is said, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Kings III, 22. ');"><sup>15</sup></span>

Jerusalem Talmud Megillah

It is required that he write on leather on the place of the hair and on parchment on the place of its split363Where the script is more readable. Babli Menaḥot 32a.. If he changed this, he disqualified it. One should not write half of it on leather and half of it on parchment, but he may write on leather from a pure domestic animal and half on leather from a pure wild animal. One only writes on leather from a pure animal364Babli Šabbat 108a.. What is the reason? That the Eternal’s teaching be in your mouth365Ex. 13:9., from what you are putting into your mouth. But was it not stated, one writes on leather from carcasses and torn animals364Babli Šabbat 108a.? The kind which you are putting into your mouth366Since hide and leather are inedible anyhow.. One makes a staff at the end of a book, but for the Torah one on both sides. Therefore one rolls a book up to its beginning but the Torah to its middle367The Torah scroll can be stored to open at the place where one stopped reading.. Rebbi Samuel, Rebbi Ze`ira in the name of Rav Ḥiyya bar Joseph: Even two sheets368The scroll shows two sheets when it is opened.. Rebbi Ze`ira, Samuel bar Shilat in the name of Kahana: but only at the place of the suture369Babli 32a.. Rebbi Aḥa in the name of Rebbi Samuel bar Naḥman: A scroll which has no cover one turns on the writing so the writing should not be degraded370Eruvin 10 (Note 79); Soferim 3:16..
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