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²³For an explanation of this paragraph, see the author’s The Scholar’s Haggadah, pp. 186–187. From where the Four Cups? Rebbi Joḥanan in the name of Rebbi Benaiah: Corresponding to the four deliveries²⁴Ex. 6:7–8.: Therefore, say to the Children of Israel, I am the Eternal, and I shall take you out, etc. And I shall take you as My people, etc. I shall take you, I shall save you, I shall free you, I shall take you. Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, corresponding to the four cups of Pharao: The cup of Pharao was in my hand; I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharao ’s cup, and gave the cup in Pharao ’s hand. You will give the cup in the hand of Pharao²⁵Gen. 40:11,13. The relation to Passover is explained in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan ad loc.. Rebbi Levi said, corresponding to the four kingdoms. But our teachers say, corresponding to the four cups of doom that the Holy One, praise to Him, will make the Gentiles drink at the end of days. Truly, so said the Eternal, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath²⁶Jer. 23:15.. The golden cup of Babylon is in the hand of the Eternal²⁷Jer. 51:7.. Truly a cup is in the hand of the Eternal, intoxicating wine, fully to be mixed; He shall sprinkle from it but its dregs shall be drunk, squeezed to the last, by all the wicked of the earth²⁸Ps. 75:9.. He shall let coals rain on the wicked; fire, sulphur, and burning wind is the portion of their cup²⁹Ps. 11:6.. What does the portion of their cup mean? R. Abun said: a double cup³⁰Greek διπλόν ποτήριον, τό. like the double cup taken after a thermal bath. And in accordance with this correspondingly the Holy One, praised be He, will let Israel drink four cups of consolation at the End of Days: The Eternal is the portion of my part and my cup³¹Ps. 16:5.. You anointed my head with oil; my cup is overflowing³²Ps.23:5.. I shall lift up the cup of salvations³³Ps.116:13. counts for two.

A Gentile has to separate from his sister, whether paternal or maternal, the words of Rebbi Meïr. Rebbi Jehudah says, he must separate from his maternal halfsister; a paternal halfsister he may keep. He must separate from his mother’s sister but may keep his father’s sister, the words of Rebbi Meïr. Rebbi Jehudah says, he must separate from his mother’s maternal halfsister but may keep his mother’s paternal halfsister⁸⁶The rules for Gentiles living under Jewish law are identical to those valid for converts; in the Babli they are given in Sanhedrin 58a, identical to the rules given for converts in Yebamot98b.. Rav Ḥanin said, he⁸⁷This must be Rav, Rav Ḥanin’s teacher and father-in-law. explained us the words of Rebbi Meïr simply: “Therefore, a man has to abandon his father and his mother⁸⁸Gen. 2:24. The common interpretation of the verse as basis of a “natural law” of incest prohibitions is in the sources [Babli Sanhedrin 58a, Gen. rabba 18(8)]: “Therefore, a man leaves his father (the father’s wife who might not be his mother) and his mother and clings to his wife (marriage is effected by intercourse, but after the first intercourse of a woman all sex acts with other people are adulterous since there is no divorce; male homosexual activity is also forbidden) and they will be one flesh (only vaginal intercourse is counted as such).” All other incest prohibitions of Lev. are for Jews only. (A minority opinion, that of R. Eliezer in the Babli, identifies the “father” as the father’s sisters.).” What is close to him from his father’s side, what is close to him from his mother’s side. Rebbi Vivian asked: Then his father’s sister should be forbidden because she is close to his father! His mother’s sister should be forbidden because she is close to his mother⁸⁹This shows that the opinion of R. Eliezer, quoted in the Babli (see the preceding note) was unknown to the editors of the Yerushalmi.! Rebbi Simeon, the son of Rebbi Ayvo objected: “Amram took his aunt Yokhebed as wife⁹⁰Ex. 6:20. According to the rules promulgated by him, Moses was a bastard. This proves (a) that the incest prohibitions of Lev. 18 are introduced because of the holiness of the Land or as prohibition of idolatrous practices and (b) the paternal aunt is permitted to a Gentile..” Does that mean that the Israelites did not even behave as descendants of Noah? Rebbi Hila said, what is close to him from his father’s side, what is close to him from his mother’s side⁹¹Only the father’s wives and the mother.. They objected to Rebbi Meïr: “And truly she is my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s.⁹²Gen. 20:12. According to Philo (Special Laws III, 22–25), the practice of marrying halfsisters was recognized in Greece and that of marrying full sisters in Egypt.” He said to them: Is a proof from there? Not “she became my wife”⁹³I am at a loss to understand the argument. The expedient chosen by the talmudic sources, that Sarah was not Abraham’s sister but his niece, should be excluded out of respect for the biblical text (Cf. Chapter 10, Note 210). This cannot be a general Jewish tradition since Sadducee (Karaite) traditions prohibit the niece to the uncle because the text prohibits the nephew to the aunt.?

⁷⁴Sifra Behar Pereq 2(4); a similar text Babli 9b.“A Jubilee [it is]⁷⁵Corrector’s addition from the Babli; out of place as shown by R. Yose’s statement., even though they did not observe the Sabbatical, even though they did not blow the shofar. Or maybe even though they did not manumit slaves? The verse says it is, the words of Rebbi Jehudah⁷⁶As Rashi explains in the Babli, in Lev. 25:8ff. it first is stated that the calendar authorities have to count 49 years, then organize the blowing of the shofar as consecration of the 50th year as Jubilee and return of land to the hereditary owners. Then in vv. 11,12 it is emphasized it is Jubilee, meaning that all rules spelled out subsequently do apply whether or not the preliminary actions required in vv. 8–10 have been executed or not.. Rebbi Yose says, a Jubilee, even though they did not observe the Sabbatical, even though they did not manumit slaves. Or maybe even though they did not blow the shofar? The verse says it is. Rebbi Yose said, since the verse makes it dependent on blowing the shofar, and another verse⁷⁷The verse quoted from Jer. later on. In Lev. the freeing of Hebrew slaves is a law depending on the declaration of the Jubilee, 25:40. makes it dependent on manumitting slaves, why am I saying, Jubilee even though they did not manumit slaves? For it is (impossible) [possible] for a Jubilee without manumitting slaves but (possible) [impossible] for the Jubilee without sounding the shofar⁷⁸The (scribe’s text) has to be preferred to the [corrector’s]; they more or less mean the same. The scribe’s text means that a slave not freed in the Jubilee is held illegally; in law he cannot be considered a slave. Therefore the Jubilee without manumission is a legal impossibility; a disregard of the duty to manumit is a sin for the individual, and a sin of the Court which does not enforce the law, but has no relevance for whether or not there is a Jubilee. On the other hand, the blowing of the shofar is a duty imposed on the Court; it is not intrinsic to the notion of Jubilee.. Another explanation: The blowing of the shofar depends on the Court but manumission of slaves depends on everybody⁷⁹Essentially a succinct reformulation of the previous argument..” And it follows what Rebbi Samuel ben Rav Isaac said, the Eternal spoke to Moses and Aaron and commanded them to the Children of Israel⁸⁰Ex. 6:13.. About what did he command them? About the chapter on manumission of slaves⁸¹Since at that point the Israelites were not yet freed, no commandments could be given to them. It is asserted that they were told that they would be freed on condition that they would in the future manumit their own Hebrew slaves on the Jubilee.. This parallels what Rebbi Ila said, Israel was only punished because of the Chapter about manumission of slaves; that is what is written⁸²Jer. 34:14. The argument is from the preceding verse: I concluded a covenant with your forefathers, on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, as follows:, at the end ofseven years everyone has to set free his Hebrew brother, etc. It was stated in the name of Rebbi Neḥemiah, she was like a trading vessel, from far she brings her bread⁸³Prov. 31:14. The “valiant woman” is identified with the Torah (Midrash Mishleh 31[10].). The words of the Torah are poor in their proper place but rich at another place⁸⁴Since in Ex. it is not spelled out what was the first commandment given to the Israelites, but in Jer. it is spelled out.. Rebbi Joḥanan said, these are the words of Rebbi Jehudah and Rebbi Yose, but the words of the Sages are, consecration by the High Court, and blowing the shofar, and remission of debts cause it to be Sabbatical. One understands consecration by the High Court, and blowing the shofar⁸⁵As noted in Note 76, these are given in the biblical texts as establishing the Jubilee.. But is remission of debts⁸⁶While it is not stated explicitly in the Mishnah, it clearly follows from the rules of Ševi`it Chapter 10 that debts are cancelled by the end of the Sabbatical year. Since the Jubilee is a Sabbatical, how can its validity be dependent on what happens after it ends? not at the end? Rebbi Ze`ira understood it from the following⁸⁷Dan. 10:12. The courts must be ready to enforce the cancellation of debts after the end of the Jubilee.: He said to me, do not fear, Daniel, since your words were heard from the first day when you concentrated to understand and fast before your God. Your words already were heard.

The following names are to be divided:³⁹Although each represents one name, it is to be written as two words. Beth-el,⁴⁰e.g. Gen. 12, 8. Beth-’awen,⁴¹Hos. 4, 15, X, 15. Beer-sheba,⁴²E.g. Gen. 21, 31. Ẓofenath-pa’neaḥ, [37b] Poṭi-fera,⁴³ibid. XLI, 45. E.V. Zaphenathpaneah and Poti-phera. Ben-’oni,⁴⁴ibid. XXXV, 18. Yedid-yah,⁴⁵2 Sam. 12, 25. E.V. Jedidiah. Halelu-yah.⁴⁶E.g. Ps. 111, 1, ‘praise ye the Lord’. E.V. prints it as one word. V and H add: וחרה אף וחרה אפי, and the anger [of the Lord] was kindled, My wrath shall wax hot (Ex. 22, 23; Num. 11, 10). R. Jose says: These must not be divided.⁴⁷But written as one word. All, however, agree that there must be no breaking up of ‘Ammi’el,⁴⁸A name meaning ‘God is with me’ (e.g. Num. 13, 12). Another reading is עזיאל, ‘God is my strength’ (e.g. Ex. 6, 18). ‘Amminadab,⁴⁹A name meaning ‘my kinsman is noble’ (e.g. ibid. 23). Ẓuri’el,⁵⁰A name meaning ‘my Rock is God’ (Num. 3, 35). Ẓurishaddai.⁵¹A name meaning ‘my Rock is Shaddai’ (cf. Num. 1, 6).

¹⁰⁹This paragraph is very much truncated in the Leiden ms.; after the introduction is noted “repetition”, i. e., it is found elsewhere and needs no repetition here. But the paragraph is not known from any other place in the Yerushalmi; it is preserved almost completely in the Genizah fragment [G]. Already in 1934 S. Lieberman discovered the full text in Yalqut Makhiri Isaiah(Tarbiz5, p. 109.) The Genizah text is given here in brackets; at one place where it is illegible it is completed from Yalqut Makhiri in the Notes. Rebbi Samuel bar Naḥman in the name of Rebbi Jonathan: At every occasion where dibbur¹¹⁰If God addresses a human using the root דבר instead of אמר, נאם it is a sign that a new commandment is contained in the following paragraph. is said, there is a new biblical commandment. But is it not written, God spoke (etc., repetition) [to Noah(and his sons with him as follows)¹¹¹Gen. 8:15. The scribe, quoting from memory, erroneously added the end of v. 9:8.? What new biblical commandment is there? He newly introduced limb of a living animal. But is it not written, Abram fell on his face and God spoke to him as follows¹¹²Gen. 17:3.? What new biblical commandment is there? He newly introduced circumcision. But is it not written, a word the Eternal sent to Jacob¹¹³Is. 9:7.? What new biblical commandment is there? He newly introduced …¹¹⁴As the editor of G noted, the illegible word here seems to be מילה, belonging to the preceding sentence. Following Yalqut Makhiri one has to read: The ischiatic tendon. The verse is also quoted in the Babli, Hulin 91a, to prove that the ischiatic tendon remains forbidden in Israel even though its prohibition was not repeated in the Torah after the epiphany of Sinai (in contrast to circumcision, which is mentioned in Lev. 12:3.) As S. Lieberman noted, the argument is correctly explained by Maharsha (R. Samuel Eliezer Idels) in his Notes to Hulin: The prohibition of the ischiatic tendon is the only commandment (דבר) which the Eternal sent through Jacob. The Babli is completely intelligible only on the basis of the Yerushalmi here. But is it not written¹¹⁵Ex. 6:2, the only case of דבר to Moses not in connection with a commandment., God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the Eternal? What new biblical commandment is there? He newly introduced Sanctification of the Name. But is it not written¹¹⁶Jos. 20:1, introduction to the designation of cities of refuge; the reason for placing the paragraph in this Halakhah., the Eternal spoke to Joshua as follows? What new biblical commandment is there? If you want to say the six cities of refuge, were they not already given to Moses at Sinai? But even to him was spoken what was not said to Moses: He shall flee to one of these cities and stand at the gate etc., and they shall give him a place that he stay with them.¹¹⁷Jos. 20:4.] What means that he stay with them? The rabbis of Caesarea in the name of Rebbi Shila¹¹⁸A student of R. Simeon ben Laqish.: If he is a scholar, they make him a house of assembly¹¹⁹Where others can come and profit from his knowledge (Babli 10a)..