Bibbia Ebraica
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Talmud su Deuteronomio 19:4

וְזֶה֙ דְּבַ֣ר הָרֹצֵ֔חַ אֲשֶׁר־יָנ֥וּס שָׁ֖מָּה וָחָ֑י אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַכֶּ֤ה אֶת־רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ בִּבְלִי־דַ֔עַת וְה֛וּא לֹא־שֹׂנֵ֥א ל֖וֹ מִתְּמֹ֥ל שִׁלְשֹֽׁם׃

E questo è il caso dell'omicida, che fuggirà di là e vivrà: chiunque uccide il suo vicino alla sprovvista, e non lo odiava nel tempo passato;

Jerusalem Talmud Sheviit

MISHNAH: A predated prozbol is valid, postdated it is invalid. Predated documents of indebtedness are invalid, postdated they are valid. If one person borrows from five, one writes a prozbol for each single [creditor]. If five persons borrow from one, he writes only one prozbol for all of them.
One writes prozbol only on the basis of real estate. If he104It was shown in Note 92 that one of his debtors must have real estate for a creditor’s prozbol. has none, [the other party] gives him the right to a minute area of their field. If he had a field mortgaged105Even if the loan is paid back in instalments, that for a fixed number of terms the creditor works the field and takes all its yield, it remains the property of the debtor. in town, one writes a prozbol on it. Rebbi Ḥuẓpit says, one writes for a man on his wife’s properties106Even if this is separate property, not dowry which becomes the husband’s property for the duration of the marriage. and for orphans on those of the guardians107Greek ἐπίτροπος “guardian, attorney”. In the opinion of the Babli (Giṭṭin 37a), documented claims of minor orphans are always under the supervision of the court, have the status of court documents, and do not need prozbol. The Babli is therefore obliged to interpret the Mishnah as speaking of debts incurred by the guardians for the living expenses of the orphans. This does not seem to be the position of the Yerushalmi..
A bee hive. Rebbi Eliezer says, it is like real estate: one may write a prozbol on it, it is not subject to impurity in its place114No real estate and nothing permanently connected to the ground can become impure., and somebody who takes honey from it on the Sabbath is guilty115Removing food from the ground is the definition of harvesting.. But the Sages say, it is not like real estate, one may not write a prozbol on it, it is subject to impurity in its place, and somebody who takes honey from it on the Sabbath is not sanctionable116While it is not permitted outright, there is no punishment for the action since no biblical Sabbath prohibition has been violated. The first part of the Mishnah is also in Uqeẓin 3:10.. If somebody returns a debt in the Sabbatical, he [the lender] says to him: “I am remitting.” If he [the borrower] says “anyway”, he [the lender] should accept it, for it is said (Deut. 15:2): “This is the word of remission117Once the word “remission” has been uttered, duty has been fulfilled.”.
Similarly, a homicide exiled to a city of refuge whom the citizens of the town wanted to honor, should say to them: I am a homicide. If they tell him, anyway, he should accept it, for it is said (Deut. 19:4): “This is the word of a homicide.”
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Jerusalem Talmud Makkot

MISHNAH: Where are they exiled to? To the cities of refuge. To the three in Transjordan and the three in the Land of Canaan, as it is said46Num. 35:14.: Three cities you shall designate in Transjordan, etc. As long as those in the Land of Israel had not been selected47Jos. 20:7. Sifry Num. 160., those in Transjordan were not receiving, as it is said48Num. 35:13., there shall be six cities of refuge, not until all six were receiving together49Giving asylum to the involuntary homicide..
Roads were maintained from one to the other, as it is said50Deut. 19:3.: Maintain the road for yourselves, and divide the domain of your Land into three parts51Divide both the Land of Israel and Transjordan into three Voronoi domains each so that the nearest city of refuge always was indicated on the sign posts.. One sends with them52The homicide. two scholars lest he53The avenger of the blood. kill him52The homicide. on the road, to argue with him. Rebbi Meïr says, he53The avenger of the blood. may argue for himself as it is said54Deut. 19:4., this is the word of the homicide.
Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Jehudah says, at the start both the involuntary and the voluntary [homicide] go to the city of refuge; the court sends and brings them back from there. If one is found guilty by a death sentence, they execute him. If he is found not guilty in a capital case, he is freed. If he is found guilty to be exiled they return him to his place as it is said55Num. 35:25., the community shall return him to his city of refuge. Not only56The homicide may return to his home town upon the death of the High Priest (Num. 35:28). a [High Priest] anointed with the anointing oil57A High Priest of the period of Judges or Kings, anointed from the vial prepared by Moses (Ex. 30:22–33)., but also one wearing the many vestments58A High Priest of Second Temple times, wearing an imitation of the High Priest’s robes., and one deposed from his office59A High Priest of Herodian times or later, when High Priests usually were appointed annually.. Rebbi Jehudah says, also the one anointed for war60To exhort the army, Deut. 20:2. returns the homicide. Therefore, the mothers of the [High] Priests support them with food and clothing, so they should not pray for the death of their sons.
If sentence had been passed when the High Priest died, he is not exiled. If sentence had not yet been passed when the High Priest died, and sentence was passed after a successor had been appointed, he returns after the death of the second.
If sentence was passed when there was no High Priest, or one who killed a High Priest, or a High Priest who killed, can never leave from there. He52The homicide. cannot leave from there, neither for a testimony of obligation,61A religious act, neither civil nor criminal; e. g., to testify to the appearance of the New Moon. nor a testimony in a civil suit, nor a testimony in a criminal suit, not even if Israel needs him like Joab ben Ṣeruya62David’s general., he cannot ever leave from there, as it is said there55Num. 35:25.. There shall be his dwelling, there he shall die, there he shall be buried.
Just as the city grants asylum, so does its domain grant asylum63Every city of refuge also is a Levitic city (Num. 35:6). Each Levitic city was surrounded by a greenbelt of 2’000 cubits, having the same status as the city itself (Lev. 35:4–5; Sotah 5:4 Notes 107–111.) The avenger of the blood has no right to pursue the homicide into the city’s domain.. If a murderer left the domain and was found by the avenger of the blood, Rebbi Yose the Galilean says, it is the obligation of the avenger of the blood and the right of everybody64To kill the homicide who left the city of refuge (in the Babli: intentionally).. Rebbi Aqiba says, it is the right of the avenger of the blood and nobody would be liable because of him.
If a tree stands inside the domain but its crown is outside the domain, or the tree stands outside the domain but its crown is inside the domain, everything follows the crown65If most of the crown is outside (inside), the entire tree is considered outside (inside). In the Babli, the crown is only taken as an extension of the tree.. If somebody killed in one of these cities, he is exiled from quarter to quarter; but a Levite66Whose city it is. Only a Levite can be a permanent resident of a city of refuge. who killed is exiled from one city to another.
Similarly67This makes no sense here; it is copied from the identical Mishnah Ševiˋit 10:8., a homicide exiled to a city of refuge whom the citizens of the town wanted to honor, should say to them, I am a homicide. If they tell him, anyway, he should accept, for it is said54Deut. 19:4., this is the word of a homicide.
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