This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE SABBATH AND 'HANUKAH LIGHT. MISHNA /.: What shall and what shall not be used for lighting (the Sabbath light)? The light shall not be made with (wicks of) cedar bast, raw flax, silk fibre, weeds growing upon the water, and ship-moss.* Nor shall pitch, wax, cotton ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE SABBATH AND 'HANUKAH LIGHT. MISHNA /.: What shall and what shall not be used for lighting (the Sabbath light)? The light shall not be made with (wicks of) cedar bast, raw flax, silk fibre, weeds growing upon the water, and ship-moss.* Nor shall pitch, wax, cotton-seed oil, oil of rejected heave-offerings, f fat from the tail of a sheep, and tallow be used. Nahum the Modait says melted tallow may be used for lighting; the schoolmen, however, prohibit melted and raw tallow alike. GEMARA: Rabbin and Abayi were sitting before Rabbanah Ne'hemiah, the brother of the Exilarch (after the death of his brother he became Exilarch under the name Ne'hemiah the Second), and they saw that he was dressed in a mantle of pis raga (raw silk). Said Rabbin to Abayi: "This is called in our Mishna khlakh." % And he answered: "In our city it is called Shir a Peranda {ferandinis)." The same (Rabbin and Abayi) happened to be in the valley of Tamruritha, and they saw a kind of willow, and Rabbin said to Abayi: "This is edan mentioned in our Mishna"; and he rejoined: "This is only common wood; how could a wick be made of it?" He peeled off one of them and showed him a kind of woolly substance between the bark and the stem. * Moss springing up on the hulk or boards of a ship. f The text reads " oil for burning," the full explanation of which is given in the Talmud farther on. We have paraphrased the term to convey the sense to the English reader. The terms in the Mishna, with which it must not be lighted, are expressed in a mixture of Hebrew, Greek, and Roman names. The Gcmara then discusses what is meant by the names, and, probably, some of the Babylonian Amoraim did not understand Greek or Roman, as is seen from the fact...
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