Бамидбар 5:17 Связанные отрывки

Rebbi Berekhiah asked: Why did we not state the dust for the straying³⁰The straying wife who was seen in a secret rendez-vous with another man. The jealous husband may bring his wife to the Temple where she has to drink water mixed with some dust from the Temple floor as an ordeal (Num. 5). There is no minimum amount of that dust prescribed.? Why did we not state the ashes of the heifer³¹The ashes of the red heifer must be strewn on the water with which people defiled by contact with a dead body could be purified for entrance to the Temple (Num. 19). Since these ashes are extremely valuable, using more than a minimum amount is a misdeed.? Why did we not state the spittle of the sister-in-law³²The childless widow who is not married by her brother-in-law becomes free to marry outside the family only by removing a shoe from the foot of the unwilling brother-in-law and spitting out before him (Deut. 25:9). The spittle falling to the earth must be seen by the court but no minimum is established.? Why did we not state the blood of the bird for the “leper”³³The bird needed for the ritual cleansing of the “leper” (Lev. 14:1–7). The symptoms of the “leper” have no relation to what today is called leprosy.? Our³⁴In old French sources, R. Simson of Sens and Tosaphot Ḥagigah 7a, this is a statement of the Amora R. Yose mentioned in the previous paragraphs, contemporary of R. Berekhiah. Mishnah deals only with things to which he may add and adding is a worthy deed. As for those, even though he may add to them, doing so is no worthy deed.