כא <br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך משקין:</strong></big><br><br>
21 everybody engaged in fishing and they brought in fish,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The time of flood in Mesopotamia is between March and May and there was therefore at Passover-time a plentiful supply of fish in the streams.');"><sup>24</sup></span> and Raba allowed to put them in salt. Said Abaye to him: But [why]? We learned: PRESERVES THAT MAY BE EATABLE IN THE FESTIVAL [WEEK] ONE MAY PUT IN PICKLE? - Said he [Raba] to him, Since they brought them home with the intention of eating them and if they leave them [uneaten] they will be spoilt, it is similar to [a case of] business that might be lost and is therefore permitted.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra ');"><sup>25</sup></span> And some say that Raba [actually] allowed them to him, But surely we learned: PRESERVES THAT MAY BE EATABLE go fishing,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ab initio, or to purchase fish, i.e., to take advantage of the opportunity.');"><sup>26</sup></span> fetch the fish home and put them in salt. Said Abaye to IN THE FESTIVAL [WEEK] ONE MAY PUT IN PICKLE! - Said he [Raba] to him, These may be eaten [also] by means of 'pressing', as was the case with Samuel when they applied pressure [to the fish in salt] sixty times<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sixty is a Babylonian unit, e.g., sixty minutes an hour, a minute sixty seconds etc. and is used often as conventionally as here for 'ever so many times'.');"><sup>27</sup></span> and he ate [thereof]. When Raba [himself] once happened to be at the house of the Exilarch,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Resh Galutha. The official head of the Jewish community in Babylon, an office held in succession by descendants of the royal house of David, and recognized by the Government. It was, in this distance, either Mar Huna III or Abba son of Mar 'Ukban III, to both of whom Raba was official adviser on religious matters. V. W. Bacher's article, Jew. Encycl. V, 289, s.v. Exilarch.');"><sup>28</sup></span> they prepared for him [a dish of fish] pressed sixty times and he ate it. Rab was [on a festival week] once at Bar-Shappir<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M. Piruz-Shabur = Perisaboras was however rebuilt and so named later by Sapor II. Cf. Obermeyer p. 226.');"><sup>29</sup></span> [Perissabora? ] where they put before him some kind of fish [which was] a third boiled, a third salted and a third broiled. Rab said, Adda the fisherman told me that a fish is at its best when it is about to turn putrid. Rab also said this, Adda the fisherman told me: Broil the fish with his brother [salt], plunge it into its father [water], eat it with its son [sauce] and drink after it its father [water]. This too Rab said: A the fisherman told me: [After eating] fish, cress and milk occupy your body, don't occupy your couch.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., move about and do not lie down to sleep.');"><sup>30</sup></span> And furthermore said Rab, Adda the fisherman told the: [After] fish, cress and milk drink [rather] water, not mead;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A fermented beverage made of dates used in Babylon.');"><sup>31</sup></span> mead and not wine. [