Talmud do Królów I 6:7
וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ בְּהִבָּ֣נֹת֔וֹ אֶֽבֶן־שְׁלֵמָ֥ה מַסָּ֖ע נִבְנָ֑ה וּמַקָּב֤וֹת וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙ כָּל־כְּלִ֣י בַרְזֶ֔ל לֹֽא־נִשְׁמַ֥ע בַּבַּ֖יִת בְּהִבָּנֹתֽוֹ׃
Przybytek zaś, gdy budowano go, z kamienia gotowego, w łomach przyciosanego, zbudowanym został, tak że kilofów albo siekiery, albo jakiegobądź narzędzia żelaznego, nie słychać było w przybytku gdy go budowano.
Jerusalem Talmud Sotah
It was stated219Tosephta 15:1 the entire paragraph. The Babli, 48b, quotes only the part referring to R. Jehudah’s statement, and that anonymously.
In many places, the shamir is listed as a creature whose existence was part of the plan of Creation but which came into being only at its appointed time (the expression being: it was created Friday evening at dusk): Mishnah Abot5:6, Babli Pesaḥim 54a, Sifry Deut. 355, Mekhilta Bešallaḥ Wayyissa‘ 5, Abot dR. Nathan B 37, Pirqe R. Eliezer19,31, Tanḥuma Wayyera 23, Pseudo-Jonathan Num. 22:28, Midraš Ma‘aśeh
Torah (Jellinek vol. 2, p. 100). Cf. also the story of Solomon and the shamir in Babli Giṭṭin 68b.: Rebbi Jehudah said, what was this shamir? It is a creature that existed from the creation of the world and if one shows it stones those would open themselves like the two boards of a pinax220A writing tablet of two smooth wooden plates hinged together and covered with wax. Greek πίναξ, - ακος, ὁ, “board, plank, anything made of wood; writing tablet, catalogs, etc.”, and Solomon built the Temple with it. That is what is written2211K. 6:7.: “During the building of the House, it was built from whole carried stones, and hammers or axe or any iron implement was not heard in the House when it was built.” Rebbi Nehemiah says, they were sawed. That is what is written2221K. 7:9.: “All these were expensive stones, in the measure of ashlars, sawed with a saw inside and out.” Say now, at the building site they were not treated at all but they were finished outside and then brought inside223Since iron may not be used in the building of the Temple, Ex. 20:25.. Rebbi says, the words of Rebbi Jehudah are convincing for the stones of the Temple and those of Rebbi Nehemiah for the stones of Solomon’s palace. But since nothing can withstand it, and even when it was put on a stone or a box sheet it would split it and fall down, what did they do to restrain it? One was binding it with wool fibers and put it into a lead cylinder filled with barley bran. That is what is written224Am. 5:9; this is taken as referring to the shamir.: “He enjoys robbing the strong.”
In many places, the shamir is listed as a creature whose existence was part of the plan of Creation but which came into being only at its appointed time (the expression being: it was created Friday evening at dusk): Mishnah Abot5:6, Babli Pesaḥim 54a, Sifry Deut. 355, Mekhilta Bešallaḥ Wayyissa‘ 5, Abot dR. Nathan B 37, Pirqe R. Eliezer19,31, Tanḥuma Wayyera 23, Pseudo-Jonathan Num. 22:28, Midraš Ma‘aśeh
Torah (Jellinek vol. 2, p. 100). Cf. also the story of Solomon and the shamir in Babli Giṭṭin 68b.: Rebbi Jehudah said, what was this shamir? It is a creature that existed from the creation of the world and if one shows it stones those would open themselves like the two boards of a pinax220A writing tablet of two smooth wooden plates hinged together and covered with wax. Greek πίναξ, - ακος, ὁ, “board, plank, anything made of wood; writing tablet, catalogs, etc.”, and Solomon built the Temple with it. That is what is written2211K. 6:7.: “During the building of the House, it was built from whole carried stones, and hammers or axe or any iron implement was not heard in the House when it was built.” Rebbi Nehemiah says, they were sawed. That is what is written2221K. 7:9.: “All these were expensive stones, in the measure of ashlars, sawed with a saw inside and out.” Say now, at the building site they were not treated at all but they were finished outside and then brought inside223Since iron may not be used in the building of the Temple, Ex. 20:25.. Rebbi says, the words of Rebbi Jehudah are convincing for the stones of the Temple and those of Rebbi Nehemiah for the stones of Solomon’s palace. But since nothing can withstand it, and even when it was put on a stone or a box sheet it would split it and fall down, what did they do to restrain it? One was binding it with wool fibers and put it into a lead cylinder filled with barley bran. That is what is written224Am. 5:9; this is taken as referring to the shamir.: “He enjoys robbing the strong.”
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