Textes liés sur Les Nombres 35:5

Rabbi Akiva expounded the verse (Lev. 11:33), "And every earthenware vessel [into which one of them (i.e., a sheretz) falls, everything inside it] shall impart impurity." It does not say "shall be impure"; rather, "shall impart impurity," for it can render others impure. And it teaches about the second loaf of bread that it may impart impurity on the third loaf of bread. How so? An oven (תנור not תגור) of first-degree impurity [renders] a loaf of bread [inside it] with second-degree impurity, [and if that loaf] touches a loaf, [it imparts] third-degree impurity. Said Rabbi Yehoshua, thus would Yehuda ben Patiri expound (Num. 35:4-5), "You shall measure outside the city, etc. [two thousand with a cubit]" One verse states "from the wall of the city and outward, one thousand cubits all around." How is it possible to say "two thousand with a cubit" when it has already said "one thousand cubits," and how is it possible to say "one thousand cubits" when it has already said "two thousand with a cubit"? And why does it say "one thousand cubits" [in one verse], and why does it say "two thousand with a cubit" [in the next verse]? Rather, [it comes to teach], one thousand cubits for pastureland, and two thousand cubits for the Sabbath boundary. Rabbi Eliezer, the son of Rabbi Yosei HaGalili says, two thousand cubits is the boundary of the Levitical cities. Subtract from them one thousand cubits of pastureland, and it comes out that one quarter [of the total area] is pastureland, and the remainder are fields and vineyards.