Talmud su Levitico 26:3

It is permitted to make a break¹i.e. the passage may be divided and two persons called up to the reading. in the blessings²e.g. Lev. 26, 3-13. but not in the curses.³ibid. 14-46. R. Ḥiyya b. Gamda said: What is the reason?⁴Why may not more than one person be called to the section of the curses? Because it is written [My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord,]⁵This is the first part of the verse which is not quoted in the text of the Tractate. neither cut thou up His correction⁶Prov. 3, 11, E.V. neither spurn.—do not cut them⁷lit. ‘make it’, a section in the Torah which deals with God’s chastening of Israel. up into pieces.⁸The Heb. root may bear both meanings: ‘spurn’ and ‘cut up’.

HALAKHAH: How much is “started”²³⁹How many times does one have to fast to continue fasting on a day of the New Moon?? Rebbi Abba said, once. Rebbi Yose said, twice. It was acted on following Rebbi Abba²⁴⁰This is binding precedent. The Babli 18b concurs. [However the Babli switches the attributions between RR. Aḥa and Yose (not Assi, impossible for chronological reasons, cf. Rabbinovicz, Variae Lectiones, ad loc. Note מ.)]. And what does one read? Rebbi Yose said, one reads “blessings and curses.²⁴¹Lev. 26:3–46, the public Torah reading for all fast days for rain, even if such a fast is on a New Moon or Ḥanukkah which have their own fixed readings.” Rebbi Mana said to him, since they know it is a fast day they are falling on their bellies, do they not know that it is a fast day²⁴²Usually called “falling on one’s face”, the penitentiary prayer following the Amidah, which is omitted on all festive days. But if the day of the New Moon, where usually the penitentiary prayer is omitted, is a fast day for rain, the penitentiary prayer is recited. Since therefore everybody knows that it is a fast day, why does one have to change the customary Torah reading?? He said to him, to tell you that one reads “blessings and curses.²⁴³Since the penitentiary prayer is incompatible with the reading for the New Moon, everybody expects to read the portion customary for the fast day.” Rebbi Yudan from Kappadokia said before Rebbi Yose in the name of Rebbi Jehudah bar Pazi, one reads about the New Moon²⁴⁴Num. 28:11–15.. Rebbi Yose met Rebbi Jehudah bar Pazi; he said to him, did you hear this from your father? He said to him, my father said this only about Eintab²⁴⁵The permanent seat of the Calendar Court, which has to proclaim every New Moon in the absence of a computed calendar.. Since they know that it is the New Moon, they are reading about the New Moon. At all other places they are reading “blessings and curses.”

On Ḥanukkah we read the section of [the dedication of the altar by] the princes;³⁶Num. 7. On the first day verses 1-17 are read; on the next six days the corresponding offerings; and on the eighth day VII, 54—VIII, 4. on Purim, Then came Amalek;³⁷Ex. 17, 8-16. on the New Moon, And in your new moons;³⁸Num. 28, 11-15. at the ma‘amadoth the account of the creation.³⁹Gen. 1, 1—II, 3, because it is on account of the Temple service that the heaven and earth were created. On the fast days of the Ninth of Ab and the last seven days in connection with droughts,⁴⁰lit. ‘the shutting up of the rains’. we read the section of the blessings and curses;⁴¹Lev. 26, 3-46. but on other fast days And Moses besought,⁴²Ex. 32, 11-14, XXXIV, 1-10. and we read as the hafṭarah Seek ye the Lord.⁴³Isa. 55, 6—LVI, 8. Some say that no hafṭarah is to be read, but the people have adopted the custom of reading the hafṭarah.⁴⁴So GRA. V, M and H omit ‘but’ and ‘of reading the hafṭarah’. There must be no break in the section of curses because it is not proper to end with curses and to begin with curses.⁴⁵Cf. above XII, 1.