תלמוד על צפניה 1:19

Rebbi Jeremiah said that Rebbi Samuel bar Rav Isaac asked: May one check by the light of torches? What is his problem? Because their light is unsteady¹⁴Since the light is unsteady, it does not serve in searching nooks and crannies.. Rebbi Samuel bar Rav Isaac is consistent since Rebbi Samuel bar Rav Isaac said, because a candle permits checking everywhere¹⁵The scribe wrote בודק כל שהוא כל שהוא “checking extremely well everywhere.” The second כל שהוא was deleted by the corrector; probably incorrectly.. [¹⁶Tosephta Pisha 1:1; corrector’s addition. Even though it is not proof of the matter, it is an allusion to the matter: It shall be on that day¹⁷Misquote from memory.that I shall search Jerusalem by candles¹⁸Zeph. 1:12, Babli 7b–8a.. But some want to say,] one can understand it from the following: A candle of the Eternal is a person’s soul, it searches all rooms of the body¹⁹Prov. 20:27, Babli 7b–8a..

An idol which was broken⁶⁹In the Babli, 41b, “if it broke spontaneously.” This is the reading of the correction in G over the line. Therefore one has to assume that the reading in the text simply means that a piece is before us and we do not know how it was broken. The argument in the text shows that the idol was a decoration of a vessel, not a statue., Rebbi Joḥanan said it is forbidden, Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said it is permitted⁷⁰Babli 41b.. Where do we hold? If in the future he would return it to its vessel, everybody agrees it is forbidden. If in the future he will not return it to its vessel, everybody agrees that it is permitted. But we hold if it is not indicated. Rebbi Joḥanan said, not indicated is as if he would return it to its vessel; Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said, not indicated is as if he would not return it to its vessel. Rebbi Yudan the father of Rebbi Mattaniah said, if they were lying on their spot⁷¹All parts of the vessel are still available, so it can be glued back together. it is if he would return it to its vessel. Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish objected to Rebbi [Joḥanan]⁷²From G, missing in L.: Is it not written, therefore the priests of Dagon and all visitors to Dagon’s temple will not step on Dagon’s threshold⁷³1S. 5:5. Since it does not mention Dagon’s hands and head, it proves that once a statue is broken it is not worshipped any longer by pagans. In the Babli the same verse serves to buttress R. Joḥanan’s position against R. Simeon ben Laqish.? He told him, this teaches that they honored the threshold more than Dagon. Rebbi Jeremiah in the name of Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba, the peoples of the world made one threshold; Israel made many thresholds; what is the reason? I shall visit on [any]⁷⁴Added from G (and the verse in MT); needed for the point of the sermon. who skips over the threshold [on that day]⁷⁵Zeph. 1:9..