Talmud sobre Números 18:31

Rebbi Abbahu said, Rebbi Joshua ben Ḥananiah⁹⁹A Levite. In the Babli, Yebamot86a/b, the opponent of R. Eleazar ben Azariah is R. Aqiba at all stages. and Rebbi Eleazar ben Azariah¹⁰⁰A Cohen, direct descendant of Ezra. disagreed. Rebbi Joshua ben Ḥananiah said, one does not give tithe to Cohanim but Rebbi Eleazar ben Azariah said, one gives tithe to Cohanim. Rebbi Joshua ben Ḥananiah objected to Rebbi Eleazar ben Azariah: Is it not written (Num. 18:31): “You shall eat it everywhere”, come and eat it by a grave¹⁰¹A place forbidden to Cohanim.! He said to him, what means “everywhere”? In the courtyard¹⁰²He must mean the courtyard of the priests since women are invited to enter the women’s courtyard and may enter the men’s courtyard for ceremonies required for sacrifices. of the Temple. He retorted, but is it not written (Num. 18:31): “You and your house¹⁰³The expression “house” often is used to represent someone’s wife.”? Does a woman enter the courtyard of the Temple? Rebbi Abba understood it from the following occasion: Rebbi Eleazar ben Azariah was used to take tithes from a certain garden. That garden had two exits, one to a place of impurity¹⁰⁴A cemetery. and one open to a place of purity. Rebbi Aqiba went to him¹⁰⁵The owner of the vegetable garden. He persuaded him to leave only the cemetery door open and to lock the other. and said, open this one and lock the other one. If he will come, tell him to come by that way. He also said, if he sends a student, tell him “you” is written¹⁰⁶Cf. Demay 6:1, Note 8, that an emphasis on “you” means one personally unless an expression of inclusion is added; Terumot 1:1 Note 76, Babli Qiddušin 41b.. Rebbi Eleazar ben Azariah heard this and said, that is Aqiba ben Joseph’s whip. At that moment, Rebbi Eleazar ben Azariah returned all tithes he had taken¹⁰⁷This remark, establishing the practice that tithes are not for Cohanim, is missing in the Babli which holds strongly that tithes should be given to Cohanim in preference to Levites.. Rebbi Isaac bar Eleazar said, for dinner one has to fill up completely with wood fibers¹⁰⁸To make a point one has to take strong action immediately; later it is useless. The text is doubtful; the proverb appears three times; for סבא here one reads סמא in Beẓah 2:3 and כסא in Ḥagigah 2:3.; any coal which does not cause a burn at the beginning will not cause one.

“An Israel woman betrothed to a Levite,” “you and your house⁶¹Num. 18:31.” but she is not in his house. “Pregnant from a Levite,” “born in the house,” this one is not born in his house⁵⁷This refers to the pregnant widow. The reason given is a misquote from Lev. 22:11: “Any born in his house, they should eat from his food.” The unborn does not eat.. Rebbi Yose said, is not “born in the house” written only for a Cohen? As you say there, whoever is born lets eat, whoever is not born does not let eat; here also whoever is born lets eat, whoever is not born does not let eat⁶²All rules for the Levites are (rabbinically) derived from those of the Cohen; they are not biblical.. “Waiting for her Levite levir,” “you and your house,” but he is not in her house. “And also a Levite woman”: “And a daughter of a Cohen when she will belong to an outside man⁵⁸Lev. 22:12: “she may not eat from the holy heaves.”.” Is there not written “daughter of a Cohen”? Rebbi Yose said “daughter”, whether she is a Cohen’s or a Levi’s⁶³This argument is a little less cryptic in the Babli, 68b, in the name of R. Abba: Since it is written “and a daughter” and not simply “a daughter”, following R. Aqiba one has to add another category of daughters who do not eat their part of agricultural produce.. The daughter of a Cohen who was married to an Israel may return and eat, the daughter of an Israel who was married to a Cohen may return and not eat. One⁶⁴Again the case of the Levite is assimilated into that of the Cohen. pregnant from an Israel or waiting for an Israel levir: “When she returns to her father’s house,” that excludes the one waiting for her levir, “as in her youth,” that excludes the pregnant one.