Showing posts with label mice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mice. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 June 2013

pesachim 10

a mouse, a house, a morsel of bread
but where is the mouse? what house? which mouse?

(the talmud is now reading a bit like a children's book as it discusses the various possibilities of mice taking chametz into a house that has already been searched, and if one is required to search it again. Exiting in the jaws of a bigger animal, the discussion
does not end well for the mouse)


Wednesday, 17 October 2012

shabbat 14

when and who made hands and the Torah impure?

(discussion about rabbinic decrees made by the students of Shammai and Hillel about eating terumah food, that requires one to be pure. Hands need to be specially washed pre-eating teruma because they are busy and get everywhere. and the Torah is considered impure as it was stored with the terumah food, that would attract gnawing mice. for english translation of the full talmud page, see here)