Yoma 74

אמר אביי בידות סכינין מיתיבי אף הוא עשה כני כלים ואוגני כלים וידות כלים וידות סכינין של יום הכפורים של זהב תרגומא אביי בקתתא דנרגי וחציני

- Abaye said: [Reference here is made to] the handles of the knives. The following objection was raised: He also made of gold the base of the vessels, the rims of the vessels, the handles of the vessels and the handles of the knives [used on the Day of Atonement]? - Abaye explained: These are the helves of axes and adzes.

הילני אמו עשתה נברשת של זהב וכו' תנא בשעה שהחמה זורחת ניצוצות יוצאין ממנה והכל יודעין שהגיע זמן קריאת שמע

HIS MOTHER HELENA MADE A CANDLESTICK OF GOLD etc. : A Tanna taught:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosef. II, 3.');">¹</span> When the sun was shining, sparkling rays proceeded from it and all knew then that the time had arrived for the reading of the [morning] Shema'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Ber. 26a.');">²</span>

מיתיבי הקורא את שמע. שחרית עם אנשי משמר ואנשי מעמד לא יצא מפני שאנשי משמר משכימין ואנשי מעמד מאחרים אמר אביי לשאר עמא דבירושלים

An objection was raised: One who reads the Shema' in the morning together with the linen of the [priestly] Mishmars or the [laymen] Ma'amad,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');">³</span> has not fulfilled his duty, because the men of the Mishmar read it early and the men of the Ma'amad read it too late.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They postponed the reading of the Shema' until their service in connection with the continual offering had been completed. How then did the sparks inform them when this information for practical purposes was useless?');">⁴</span>

ואף היא עשתה טבלא שמעת מינה כותבין מגילה לתינוק להתלמד בה אמר ר"ל משום רבי ינאי באלף בית

- Abaye said: It was for the rest of the people of Jerusalem. SHE ALSO MADE A TABLET: Do you not conclude from this that one may write a scroll for a child for practising purposes?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Git. ');">⁵</span>

מיתיבי כשהוא כותב רואה וכותב מה שכתוב בטבלא אימא רואה וכותב כמה שכתוב בטבלא

- Resh Lakish said in the name of R'Jannai: Alphabetically.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' What is involved here is not the real copying of a chapter of the Torah, but a kind of mnemotechnic device, with the initial letters only written out, the complete text to be supplied by memory, with the guidance of these hints.');">⁶</span> An objection was raised: Whilst writing he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The priest who writes the scroll which the suspected adulteress must drink up.');">⁷</span>

מיתיבי כשהוא כותב רואה וכותב מה שכתוב בטבלא ומה כתוב בטבלא (במדבר ה, יט) אם שכב איש אותך [ואם לא שכב] אם שטית אם לא שטית התם

looks unto the tablet and copies what is written on the tablet?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Indicating that the complete text was contained thereon.');">⁸</span> - Say: He looks and writes as it is written on the tablet.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the initial letters serve him as guide.');">⁹</span> He raised this objection: When he writes he looks and copies what is written on the tablet, and what is written thereon? And if some man have lain with thee. if no man have lain with thee; if thou hast gone aside. and if thou hast not gone aside!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. V, 19, 20.');">¹⁰</span> - There it was written