New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud/Volume 1

New Edition

of the

Babylonian Talmud

Original Text, Edited, Corrected, Formulated, and Translated into English

by

Michael L. Rodkinson

First Edition Revised and Corrected

by

The Rev. Dr. Isaac M. Wise

President Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O.

Volume I.

Tract Sabbath

Second Edition, re-edited, revised and enlarged

New York

New Talmud Publishing Company

1342 Clinton Avenue

Explanatory Remarks

In our translation we adopted these principles:

Tenan of the original—We have learned in a Mishna; Tania—We have learned in a Boraitha; Itemar—It was taught.
Questions are indicated by the interrogation point, and are immediately followed by the answers, without being so marked.
When in the original there occur two statements separated by the phrase, Lishna achrena or Waïbayith Aema or Ikha d'amri (literally, "otherwise interpreted"), we translate only the second.
As the pages of the original are indicated in our new Hebrew edition, it is not deemed necessary to mark them in the English edition, this being only a translation from the latter.
Words or passages enclosed in round parentheses ( ) denote the explanation rendered by Rashi to the foregoing sentence or word. Square parentheses [ ] contain commentaries by authorities of the last period of construction of the Gemara.

Copyright, 1901, by

Michael L. Rodkinson

To

Edwin R. A. Seligman, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science at Columbia University

In recognition of

His warm interest and valuable services in promoting the study of literature, and his great instrumentality in assisting young men and women to broaden their minds, and reach a higher social plane, and for his many works for the communal welfare, especially those in behalf of the

Educational Alliance

This volume is most respectfully dedicated by the editor and translator

Michael L. Rodkinson

June 15, 1901.
New York City.

Contents.

Page
Preface to the Second Edition	vii
Editor's Preface	ix
Brief General Introduction to the Babylonian Talmud	xv
Introduction to Tract Sabbath	xxi
Synopsis of Subjects of Volume I.—Tract Sabbath	xxix
Chapter I.
Regulations concerning Transfer on Sabbath	1
Chapter II.
Regulations concerning the Sabbath and 'Hanukah Light	31
Chapter III.
Regulations concerning Stoves, Hearths, and Ovens	63
Chapter IV.
Regulations concerning the Depositing of Victuals on the Sabbath	83
Chapter V.
Regulations concerning Gear which May and May Not be Worn by Animals on the Sabbath	91
Chapter VI.
Regulations concerning What Garments (serving as Ornaments) Women May Go Out with on the Sabbath	107
Chapter VII.
The General Rule concerning the Principal Acts of Labor on Sabbath	127
Chapter VIII.
Regulations concerning the Prescribed Quantity of Victuals and Beverages which Must Not be Carried about on the Sabbath	143
Chapter IX.
Rabbi Aqiba's Regulations on Different Subjects	154
Chapter X.
Further Regulations concerning the Prescribed Quantity of Things to be Stored	171