וַיְכַ֤ל אֱלֹהִים֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה וַיִּשְׁבֹּת֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מִכָּל־מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָֽׂה׃
В седьмой день Бог завершил Свои труды, которыми Он занимался, — в седьмой день Он покоился от Своих дел, которыми был занят.
Tractate Sefer Torah
Thirteen things were changed in it: They wrote "God created in the beginning" instead of “In the Beginning God Created” (Genesis 1:1). They wrote "I shall make man in My image and likeness" instead of “Let Us make man in Our image and Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). And "He concluded his work on the sixth day and rested on the seventh day" instead of “And on the seventh day God concluded His work” (Genesis 2:2). They wrote "Male and Female He created him" instead of “them” (Genesis 5:2); "Come, let Me go down instead" of “let Us go down” (Genesis 11:7); "And Sarah laughed among her relatives" instead of “laughed to herself” (Genesis 18:12). They wrote "For in their anger they killed an ox and with their will they uprooted a trough" instead of “For in their anger they killed a man and with their will they slaughtered an ox” (Genesis 49:6), "And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon a carrier of people" instead of “upon a donkey” (Exodus 4:20). They wrote "And the residence of the children of Israel, who lived in the land of Canaan and in Egypt was four hundred thirty years" instead of “And the residence of the children of Israel, who lived in Egypt, was four hundred thirty years” (Exodus 12:40). They wrote "I have not taken one item of value from them" instead of “one donkey” (Numbers 16:15). They wrote "And the short-legged beast" instead of “hare” (Leviticus 11:6). They wrote "Which Hashem your God allotted you to give light to all nations" (Deuteronomy 4:19) inserting the phrase “to give light”. They added to the text “to the sun, the moon, or the whole host of heaven that I did not command” (Deuteronomy 17:3) the words “to serve them” at the end.
Jerusalem Talmud Berakhot
The maternal uncle of Rebbi Ada52Rav Ada bar Ahava. had rolled up the kaftan of Rav on the Great Fastday53Yom Kippur. The Babylonian scholars never prayed without wearing the kaftan with the precribed belt. It seems that the Yeshivah of Rav had an intermission between Musaph and Minḥah on Yom Kippur.. He said to him: When you see the sun on top of the date palms54Since their synagogues were outside the cities in the fields, the sun on top of the date palms may indicate a rather early hour but probably inside the timeframe admitted by Rebbi Yehudah., give me my kaftan so that we may pray Minḥah. And when the sun is on top of the date palms it is daytime. As55The text הכא makes no sense. In the absence of manuscript evidence, the text has been left unchanged but the translation follows Levi Ginzberg’s conjecture that one has to read כְּהָא “As to that”, by a simple metathesis of two letters. The argument is that in a deep valley running N-S, the sun on the top of trees on the slopes of the valley designates a rather early time. Rebbi Yoḥanan said (Is. 44:27): “He Who said to the deep: dry up!”, that is Babylonia, the filth56Latin situs “situation; filth”. of the world. Rebbi Yoḥanan said57This paragraph is an aggadic interruption about Babylonia; the discussion of Rav’s action is continued in the following paragraph. This group of sermons is also found three times in Midrash rabba: Gen.rabba 37:4, Threni rabba, Petiḥta 23, Eccl. rabba 12:7. In the first two, there is an additional explanation of Shinear: A land whose (Jewish) rulers study Torah as youths (but do not continue studying as adults.): Why is it called “the deep”, because there the dead of the Deluge were submerged, (Jer. 51:49) “Also in Babylonia the slain of Israel will fall, also in Babylonia the corpses of all the earth58Only in the Deluge the slain were of all mankind. did fall.” It is written (Gen. 11:2) “They found a valley in the land Shinear and dwelt there.” Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said, why is it called Shinear? Because there the dead of the Deluge were thrown59Taking שנער as shaf‘el of the root נער “to pour out”; a later explanation refers to נער “to be a youth”.. Another explanation: Because they die in strangulation60In the Targumim, תשנוּק means “strangulation.” However, in Syriac the words means “suffering”, which makes sense here., without light61Since they had no olive oil, they had to use sesame oil which does not adhere well to wicks. Public hot baths were a characteristic institution of the provinces of the Roman empire. or public baths. Another explanation: Shinear, because they are stripped of miẓwot, without terumah and without tithes62While in old times the exiles tried to fulfill the “obligations that are incumbent on the Land of Israel” also in Babylonia, in Talmudic times they were no longer observed there.. Another explanation: Shinear, because its rulers die as youths. Another explanation: Shinear, because it produced a hater and enemy of the Holy One, praise to Him. Who is that? That is Nebuchadnezzar the evil one.
Jerusalem Talmud Shabbat
HALAKHAH: “The categories of work are 39.” From where that the categories96A hint that exactly 39 categories of work should be forbidden on the Sabbath (i. e., that a maximum of 39 sacrifices would be required for unintentional violations of the Sabbath rest.) of work are from the Torah? Rebbi Samuel bar Naḥman in the name of Rebbi Jonathan: Corresponding to the thirty-nine occurrences of מלאכה in the Torah97The count works out if one counts all occurrences of מְלָאכָה together with its suffixed forms מְלַאכְתּוֹ, etc., but omitting all construct states מְלֶאכֶת.. They asked before Rebbi Aḥa, everywhere where מלאכות is written it should count for two! Rebbi Ashian said, Rebbi Aḥa checked by eye the entire Torah and did not find this word written98The plural מְלָאכוֹת is not found in the Pentateuch. Therefore each occurrence of the word counts as one.. The following is necessary: He came into the house to do his work99Gen. 39:11. It must be counted even though the word is in suffixed form and does not refer to the Sabbath. is with them. God completed on the Seventh Day His work which He did100Gen. 2:2., is with them. Rebbi Simeon ben Yoḥai stated: Six days you shall eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day you should not do work101Deut. 16:8, the last occurrence of the word in the Torah. comes to complete the 39 “works” written in the Torah.