Talmud sobre Números 34:30

Rebbi Simon and Rebbi Abbahu were sitting. He said, is it not written (Jud. 1:18) “Jehudah conquered Gaza and its territory”? Include Gaza⁶¹This refers to the question of tithes due from the territory conquered by the twelve tribes under Joshua even if they could not hold onto their conquests, as argued by R. Ismael ben R. Yose. For this opinion, all that is described in the Torah and the book of Joshua is subject to tithes. The commentators translate ליתי עזה by “this is not Gaza”, meaning that Gaza town is not the Gaza mentioned in the verse. But the Yerushalmi uses לית only as “no; not”, never as “not being”; the latter is always spelled out לא אית; ליתי as verbal form can be derived only from אתי “to come”, not from אית “to be”.. “Ascalon and its territory”, include Ascalon. If it is so, what about the brook of Egypt⁶²Jos. 15:4. Num. 34.9, identified by R. Saadia Gaon as Wadi el-‘Arish.? Include the brook of Egypt.

Why did they make no decree about the direction of Gerar⁶⁷The desert part of the Negev. This is part of the Biblical Holy Land that was not settled by the returnees from Babylon but which is so sparsely inhabited and infrequently visited that no decree was deemed necessary.? Rebbi Simon in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: Because its oases are poor. How far? Rebbi Ḥanin in the name of Rebbi Samuel ben Rabbi Isaac: Up to the brook of Egypt⁶²Jos. 15:4. Num. 34.9, identified by R. Saadia Gaon as Wadi el-‘Arish.. But is not the oasis of Gaza a good one? Pishpesha⁶⁸Name of an otherwise unknown person (or a nickname “inquirer into details”) who must have been a Cohen since he was worried about the impurity of Gentile territory. said before Rebbi Yose: I asked Rebbi Aḥa and he permitted.

Rav Huna said: So is the Mishnah: “Between Akhzib and Euphrates, between Akhzib and Amanus.⁹¹It is not “between Akhzib and (Taurus Amanus and Euphrates)”; one does not speak about the point at which the Euphrates breaks through the Taurus range.” It was stated⁹²Tosephta Terumot 2:12, Ḥallah2:11, Yerushalmi Ḥallah 4:8, Babli Giṭṭin 8a.: What is the Land and what is outside the Land? From the slopes of Taurus Amanus inwards is the Land of Israel³The Southernmost chain of the Taurus mountains between Turkey and Syria. Jewish tradition (the Yerushalmi Targumim, Babli Giṭṭin 8a) identifies Mount Hor (Num. 34:7) with Taurus Amanus. The Euphrates as border of the Holy Land is mentioned in Deut. 1:7. Amanus and Euphrates are the borders of promise, not the actual borders. The rules given in this sentence apply only to the territory North of Akhzib described in the book of Joshua as part of the tribal distribution. The rest of the territory is “Syria” (cf. Peah, Chapter 7, Note 119)., from Taurus Amanus to the outside is outside the Land. About the islands in the sea, one looks at them as if a string were drawn from Taurus Amanus to the brook of Egypt; from the string to the inside is the Land of Israel, from the string to the outside is outside the Land. Rebbi Jehudah said, all that lies before the Land of Israel is like the Land of Israel since it is said (Num. 34:6): “The Eastern border shall be for you the Great Sea⁹³The Mediterranean. The entire width of the sea is the border. The tradition of R. Jehudah is an old one; Josephus (Antiquities 1.130) in his description of the list of peoples (Gen. 10) writes that the domain of the Canaanites did extend “to the Ocean”. The commentators to Josephus take this as a reference to the Indian Ocean; the text here shows that the Ocean is, as always in Greek literature, the Atlantic Ocean (at the straits of Gibraltar). According to R. Jehudah, Crete (and possibly Sicily) was first settled by Canaanite tribes and promised to Abraham. as border.” Assuming that a string were drawn from Cephalaria⁹⁴Called by Pliny (Hist.nat. V (18) 21) promunturium Syriae Antiochiae. to the Ocean, inside the string is the Land of Israel, outside is outside the Land.

HALAKHAH: “On condition that I possess a bet kor of arable land,” etc. Rebbi Ḥananiah the son of Rebbi Hillel asked¹¹³He asks against R. Ḥanaiah ben Gamliel.: If somebody said, my son A should perform action X and receive property Y, and the rest of my sons shall inherit my properties; if he performs, he takes, but if he does not perform, he does not take¹¹⁴This does not disinherit A from sharing with his brothers.. Or maybe it is a difference since it is written: “To give to Nine and a half tribes.¹¹⁵Num. 34:13. This verse clearly excludes the Transjordan tribes from property in Canaan. Therefore, R. Ḥanaiah ben Gamliel’s argument is correct.” It is as if he said, my son A should perform action X and receive property Y, and the rest of my sons shall inherit my properties; if he performs, he takes, but if he does not perform, he does not take from here or from there.

HALAKHAH: Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba in the name of Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Joseph: (Num. 34:2) “The land of Canaan according to its domains.” Domains that the Canaanites invented¹⁰⁴The queer shape of a vineyard, consisting of 3 + 2 vines, does not originate from abstract reasoning but is a definition inherited from the Canaanites. The inference is drawn from the verse using the rare feminine form גבולה “domain” instead of the usual masculine גבול “border”, even though the description is not of the land but of its borders.. Rebbi Immi asked, does one learn from the Canaanites¹⁰⁵There are many verses in the Pentateuch warning the Jewish people not to learn from the Canaanites. The derivation is alluded to in Babli Šabbat85a.?

⁹⁹This and the following paragraph are from Ševi‘it 6:1, Notes 90–95. Rebbi Huna said: So is the Mishnah: “Between Akhzib and Euphrates, between Akhzib and Amanus.” It was stated: What is the Land and what is outside the Land? From the slopes of Taurus Amanus inwards is the Land of Israel³This is defined in Mishnah 4:2., from Taurus Amanus to the outside is outside the Land. About the islands in the sea, one looks at them as if a string were drawn from Taurus Amanus to the brook of Egypt; from the string to the inside is the Land of Israel, from the string to the outside is outside the Land. Rebbi Jehudah said, all that lies before the Land of Israel is like the Land of Israel since it is said (Num. 34:6): “The Western border shall be for you the Great Sea as border; that shall be for you the sea border.” Assuming that a string were drawn from Cephalaria to the Ocean, from the brook of Egypt to the Ocean; inside the string is the Land of Israel, outside is outside the Land.