יא <big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> תנן התם לא יעמוד אדם ברה"י וישתה ברה"ר בר"ה וישתה ברה"י אבל אם הכניס ראשו ורובו למקום שהוא שותה מותר
11 recited likewise: R. Eleazar b. Zadok said: When we were engaged in intercalating the year at Yabneh,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The famous town N.W. of Jerusalem which R. Johanan b. Zakkai made the chief academical centre and the seat of the Sanhedrin after the fall of the Jewish state in 70 C.E. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> we made no break for the reading of the <i>shema'</i> or prayer. <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. A TAILOR MUST NOT GO OUT WITH HIS NEEDLE NEAR NIGHTFALL,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the Sabbath. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> LEST HE FORGET AND GO OUT,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the evening. ');"><sup>20</sup></span> NOR A SCRIBE WITH HIS QUILL; AND ONE MAY NOT SEARCH HIS GARMENTS [FOR VERMIN, NOR READ BY THE LIGHT OF A LAMP.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lest the light flickers and he tilts the lamp that the oil should flow more freely, which is forbidden on the Sabbath. ');"><sup>21</sup></span> IN TRUTH IT WAS SAID, THE HAZZAN<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'supervisor.' In the Talmudic period the word did not denote synagogue reader, as in modern times, but was applied to various functionaries, e.g., the person who supervised children's studies in the synagogue, the beadle, the court crier, and the janitor at academical debates. Possibly the same man combined a number of these functions. V. Sot., Sonc. ed., p. 202, n. 4. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> MAY SEE WHERE THE CHILDREN READ,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Gemara. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> BUT HE HIMSELF MUST NOT READ. SIMILARLY IT WAS SAID, A <i>ZAB</i> MUST NOT DINE TOGETHER WITH A ZABAH,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On zab and zabah v. Glos. ');"><sup>24</sup></span> AS IT MAY LEAD TO SIN.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., intimacy, which is forbidden. ');"><sup>25</sup></span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. We learnt elsewhere: One must not stand in private ground and drink in public ground, or on public ground and drink in private ground;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the Sabbath. He must not put his head into the other domain, lest he draw the drinking cup to himself, thus transferring an object from one domain to another. ');"><sup>26</sup></span> but if he inserts his head and the greater part [of his body] into the place where he drinks, it is permitted;