Talmud zu Jehoschua 12:78

¹⁴¹Soferim 12:8–12. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun said, in the Levites’ song they should not have less than six readings¹⁴²The song Mosis (Deut. 32:1–43), parts of which are sung during the presentation of the musaf sacrifice of Sabbath has to be split into six parts, to be sung during six consecutive Sabbaths.; its mnemonic is hazayu laḵ¹⁴³The starting letters of verses 1,7,13,19,29,40 which determine the text to be sung. Babli Roš Haššanah 31a.. Rebbi Ze`ira, Rebbi¹⁴⁴Read “Rav”. Jeremiah in the name of Rav: [the Song on the Sea] and Deborah’s song are written space on brick and brick on space¹⁴⁵These songs have to be written etc. Babli 16b.. The ten sons of Haman¹⁴⁶Esth. 9:7–10. and the kings of Canaan¹⁴⁷Jos. 12:9–24. are written space on space and brick on brick¹⁴⁸These songs have to be written etc., since any such building will not stand. How is that, as meritorious act or as impediment¹⁴⁹If they are written differently, may the scroll be used in public service or not?? Rebbi¹⁵⁰In Soferim 13:4: R. Yose bar Ḥanina the brother of Rebbi Hoshaia said … said to Rebbi Ḥanania the son of Rav Hoshaia’s brother, do you remember when we were standing in front of your uncle’s store that Rebbi Abba bar Zavda passed by and we asked him when he said in the name of Rav: an impediment?

From where that non-guaranteed property¹³⁵Movables, which cannot have a title guarantee. may be acquired with guaranteed property¹³⁶Real estate., by money, document, or possession? Rebbi Yose¹³⁷He is Rebbi Yasa, Assi. The entire paragraph is paralleled in Babli Qiddušin 26a–27a; there, the verse is simply quoted by Ḥizqiah himself. in the name of Ḥizqiah; Rebbi Jonah, Rebbi Ḥanina Tortaya in the name of Ḥizqiah, it is written (2Chr. 21:3): “Their father gave them many gifts, silver and gold and delicacies, with fortified cities in Jehudah¹³⁸The language implies that the gift of valuables was contingent on the gift of cities..” So far real estate and movables were at the same place. If real estate was at one place and movables elsewhere? Rebbi Abin bar Ḥiyya said, let us hear from the following: Rebbi Eliezer¹³⁹Reading in the Yerushalmi and Baba Batra 9:9, Babli Baba Batra 156b, and in Tosephta Baba Batra 10:12. The corresponding Mishnah, Baba Batra 9:9 reads R. Eliezer in the Yerushalmi and also in the Munich manuscript of the Babli, as well as in the Venice and Lublin prints. It was changed to R. Eleazar (ben Shamua) in modern prints of the Babli, following the reading at one place in Babli Qiddušin, on the authority of Rabbenu Tam (Tosaphot Baba Batra 156a) for stylistic reasons. However, the overwhelming majority of manuscript sources must have priority over arguments concerning style. said to them, it happened that a man from Madon¹⁴⁰A town in Galilee, on the heights overlooking the sea of Galilee, mentioned Joshua 11:1. The man was in Jerusalem, fell ill, and wanted to distribute his property to people in his home town, other than the legal heirs. was in Jerusalem, rich in movables. He wanted to distribute them, to give them as gifts. They said to him, you cannot do that¹⁴¹Transfer movable property as gift without the recipients taking possession at least symbolically. except if you acquire real estate. What did he do? He went and bought a rock¹⁴²A cheap piece of land without practical use. (In one interpretation in the Babli Baba Batra, he bought land the size of a sela‘, i. e., a tetradrachma, a silver coin about the size of a quarter. A pun may be intended, since Hebrew סלע also means “rock”.) near Jerusalem and said: The Northern part I give to X with a hundred amphoras of wine, the Southern part I give to Y with a hundred amphoras of oil. The matter came before the Sages and they upheld his words¹⁴³It seems that the legal heirs went to court to annul the distribution. Since the amphoras could not be placed on the rock, it is clear that real estate and movables were at different places.. Rebbi Ḥananiah said before Rebbi Mana: But was he not bedridden¹⁴⁴Many rules of transfer and wills are waved for seriously sick persons to assure them that their orders will be obeyed. The first example given by R. Ḥanania is generally accepted; the second one is then offered as interpretation of this Tosephta, that acquisition of movables remote from the land transferred might be valid only for bedridden persons.? For in general a person might give property rights only in writing, and here even orally. In general, a person might give only if real estate and movables are at the same place, but here the real estate even was at one place and the movables elsewhere. He said to him: But is there a difference for Rebbi Eliezer? The sick person for Rebbi Eliezer is like the healthy person for the rabbis¹⁴⁵In Mishnah Baba Batra 9:9, R. Eliezer (Bavli in some versions R. Eleazar) explicitly states that bedridden persons are not exempt from the stringent rules of transfer; he does not allow oral bequests..

The ten sons of Haman¹²Esth. 9, 7-9. and the kings of Canaan¹³Josh. 12, 9-24. are written in the form of a half-brick over a half-brick and a brick over a brick.¹⁴Like the song of Ha’azinu (cf. above XII, 8). Such a structure¹⁵In which bricks and half-bricks rest one above the other and do not overlap. does not endure.¹⁶And so is symbolic of the fate of Haman’s sons. What is implied by ‘such’?¹⁷The statement ‘such a structure does not last’. Does it indicate a recommendation¹⁸As the arrangement is only a symbol, a deviation from it would not disqualify the scroll. or an indispensable condition?¹⁹A deviation would then lead to disqualification. The answer follows in the next Rule.