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נְקִיּוּתf. (preced.) 1) cleanliness. Yeb.46b ודילמא נ׳ בעלמא perhaps mere cleanliness of appearance is intended? (not levitical purification). Sot.IX, 15; Y.Shek.III, end, 47c; Ab. Zar.20b זריזות מביאה לידי נ׳ zeal leads to cleanliness, נ׳ מביאהוכ׳ cleanliness leads to levitical purity. Y.Pes.VII, 35b bot. אינה אלא נ׳ it is a mere matter of cleanliness. 2) innocence, expiation. Tem.3b ואימא … נ׳ כלל may I not say, it means that there is no expiation for him?; a. e. 3) respectability, dignity. Sifra Kdosh., Par. 2, ch. IV מתפרנס בנ׳ he will make a decent living (not be dependent on charity). Gen. R. s. 99; a. e.

נְתִיצָהf. (נָתַץ) cutting out breaking up. Sifra Shmini, Par. 8, ch. X את שיש לו נ׳ that which can be broken up (brick-work). Y.Sabb.IX, 11d top נ׳ נ׳ מבית המנוגע the breaking up of idolatrous structures (Deut. 12:3) is analogous to the breaking up of leprous buildings (Lev. 14:45). Y.Orl.III, 63a bot. דכתיב נ׳ נ׳ for the term נתץ is used for idolatry and for levitical purity (Lev. 11:35). Tosef.Neg.VI, 10, contrad. to חליצה the removal of one affected stone. Mekh. Bshall., Shir., s. 10 נטיעה שאין בה נ׳ a putting up not to he followed by a tearing down. Y.Orl.I, 60d bot., v. נְפִיצָה. Y.Ab. Zar. IV, 44a; a. fr.

נְתִיצָהf. (נָתַץ) cutting out breaking up. Sifra Shmini, Par. 8, ch. X את שיש לו נ׳ that which can be broken up (brick-work). Y.Sabb.IX, 11d top נ׳ נ׳ מבית המנוגע the breaking up of idolatrous structures (Deut. 12:3) is analogous to the breaking up of leprous buildings (Lev. 14:45). Y.Orl.III, 63a bot. דכתיב נ׳ נ׳ for the term נתץ is used for idolatry and for levitical purity (Lev. 11:35). Tosef.Neg.VI, 10, contrad. to חליצה the removal of one affected stone. Mekh. Bshall., Shir., s. 10 נטיעה שאין בה נ׳ a putting up not to he followed by a tearing down. Y.Orl.I, 60d bot., v. נְפִיצָה. Y.Ab. Zar. IV, 44a; a. fr.

סָדִיןm. (b. h.) sheet, usually of fine linen (cmp. σινδών; v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Pallium). Yoma III, 4 פרשו ס׳ של בוץוכ׳ they spread a sheet of linen (for the high priest to walk on) between him Y.Kil.IX, 32b top בס׳ אחד נקבר רבֹי Rabbi was buried in one linen shroud (without any other garments); Y.Keth.XII, 35a top. Y.Yeb.I, 2b; Gen. R. s. 85 דרך ס׳ each wrapped in a sheet (preventing direct contact). Men.37b, a. e. ס׳ בציצית a linen cloak with woollen show-fringes; a. fr.Pl. סְדִינִים, סְדִינִין. Nidd.61a. Kel. XXIV, 13 שלשה ס׳ הן there are three classes of sheets with regard to Levitical purity. Tosef. ib. B. Mets.I, 14 ס׳ לצורות canvas sheets for paintings; ס׳ לאוהלים sheets for awnings. Tosef.Bets.II, 13 פרוסין ס׳ היו sheets (covering the floor of the dining room) were spread; Bab. ib. 22b; Y. ib. II, 61c bot.; a. fr.

סָדִיןm. (b. h.) sheet, usually of fine linen (cmp. σινδών; v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Pallium). Yoma III, 4 פרשו ס׳ של בוץוכ׳ they spread a sheet of linen (for the high priest to walk on) between him Y.Kil.IX, 32b top בס׳ אחד נקבר רבֹי Rabbi was buried in one linen shroud (without any other garments); Y.Keth.XII, 35a top. Y.Yeb.I, 2b; Gen. R. s. 85 דרך ס׳ each wrapped in a sheet (preventing direct contact). Men.37b, a. e. ס׳ בציצית a linen cloak with woollen show-fringes; a. fr.Pl. סְדִינִים, סְדִינִין. Nidd.61a. Kel. XXIV, 13 שלשה ס׳ הן there are three classes of sheets with regard to Levitical purity. Tosef. ib. B. Mets.I, 14 ס׳ לצורות canvas sheets for paintings; ס׳ לאוהלים sheets for awnings. Tosef.Bets.II, 13 פרוסין ס׳ היו sheets (covering the floor of the dining room) were spread; Bab. ib. 22b; Y. ib. II, 61c bot.; a. fr.

סֹלֶת, סוֹלֶתf. (b. h.; סָלַל I, v. סִלְסֵל) 1) sifted fine flour. Men.XII, 3 קמח יביא ס׳ if one vows an offering of flour, he must bring fine flour. Sifré Deut. 315 ונושרות סוֹלְתָןוכ׳ and drop their flour on the ground. Cant. R. to I, 1 כל … לא ס׳ is not all of Solomons wisdom fine flour (choice)?; a. fr.Kidd.69b; 71b Ezra did not leave Babylonia, עד שעשאה כס׳ נקיה until he made her (the Jews in Babylonia) like the purest sifted flour, i. e. established the purity of descent of their families by careful investigation (cmp. עִיסָה).Pl. סֳלָתוֹת. Shek. IV, 3. Ab. Zar.37b bot. Esth. R. to I, 14, v. מָרַס; a. fr. 2) a dish made of fine flour, pudding. Ber.37a (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 20). Y. ib. VI, 10b; a. e.

סֹלֶת, סוֹלֶתf. (b. h.; סָלַל I, v. סִלְסֵל) 1) sifted fine flour. Men.XII, 3 קמח יביא ס׳ if one vows an offering of flour, he must bring fine flour. Sifré Deut. 315 ונושרות סוֹלְתָןוכ׳ and drop their flour on the ground. Cant. R. to I, 1 כל … לא ס׳ is not all of Solomons wisdom fine flour (choice)?; a. fr.Kidd.69b; 71b Ezra did not leave Babylonia, עד שעשאה כס׳ נקיה until he made her (the Jews in Babylonia) like the purest sifted flour, i. e. established the purity of descent of their families by careful investigation (cmp. עִיסָה).Pl. סֳלָתוֹת. Shek. IV, 3. Ab. Zar.37b bot. Esth. R. to I, 14, v. מָרַס; a. fr. 2) a dish made of fine flour, pudding. Ber.37a (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 20). Y. ib. VI, 10b; a. e.

סֹלֶת, סוֹלֶתf. (b. h.; סָלַל I, v. סִלְסֵל) 1) sifted fine flour. Men.XII, 3 קמח יביא ס׳ if one vows an offering of flour, he must bring fine flour. Sifré Deut. 315 ונושרות סוֹלְתָןוכ׳ and drop their flour on the ground. Cant. R. to I, 1 כל … לא ס׳ is not all of Solomons wisdom fine flour (choice)?; a. fr.Kidd.69b; 71b Ezra did not leave Babylonia, עד שעשאה כס׳ נקיה until he made her (the Jews in Babylonia) like the purest sifted flour, i. e. established the purity of descent of their families by careful investigation (cmp. עִיסָה).Pl. סֳלָתוֹת. Shek. IV, 3. Ab. Zar.37b bot. Esth. R. to I, 14, v. מָרַס; a. fr. 2) a dish made of fine flour, pudding. Ber.37a (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 20). Y. ib. VI, 10b; a. e.

סֹלֶת, סוֹלֶתf. (b. h.; סָלַל I, v. סִלְסֵל) 1) sifted fine flour. Men.XII, 3 קמח יביא ס׳ if one vows an offering of flour, he must bring fine flour. Sifré Deut. 315 ונושרות סוֹלְתָןוכ׳ and drop their flour on the ground. Cant. R. to I, 1 כל … לא ס׳ is not all of Solomons wisdom fine flour (choice)?; a. fr.Kidd.69b; 71b Ezra did not leave Babylonia, עד שעשאה כס׳ נקיה until he made her (the Jews in Babylonia) like the purest sifted flour, i. e. established the purity of descent of their families by careful investigation (cmp. עִיסָה).Pl. סֳלָתוֹת. Shek. IV, 3. Ab. Zar.37b bot. Esth. R. to I, 14, v. מָרַס; a. fr. 2) a dish made of fine flour, pudding. Ber.37a (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 20). Y. ib. VI, 10b; a. e.

עֶרְוָהf. (b. h.; עָרָה I) nakedness, shame; unchastity, lewdness, obscenity. Cant. R. to I, 2 מה מים מכסים עֶרְוָתוֹ … עֶרְוָתָן as water covers the nakedness of the sea, … so (study of) the Law covers up the nakedness (atones for the sins) of Israel. Ber.24b לבו רואה את הע׳ his heart sees the nakedness, i. e. there is no garment (girdle) separating the upper part of the body from the lower. Ib. 24a, משום ע׳ v. עֲגָבָה. Ib. קול באשה ע׳ hearing a womans voice is indecency (you must not read the Shmʿa while a woman is singing within your heaving); שער באשה ע׳ the sight of womans hair is an impropriety (with regard to reading the Shmʿa). Gitt.IX, 10 לא יגרש … דבר ע׳ a man must not divorce his wife, unless he have found in her something improper (v. Deut. 24:1). Ib. 90a (interpret. ערות דבר, Deut. l. c.) אם נאמר ערות … הייתי אומר משום ע׳ תצא משום דבר לא תצא if the text had ʿervath (meaning ʿervah) without dabar, I might have thought, for scandalous conduct she is to be dismissed, for ‘something (any other cause) she must not be dismissed. Ib. לא מצא בה לא ע׳ ולא דבר if he found in her neither indecency nor any other fault. Ib. 64a a. fr. אין דבר שבע׳ פחות משנים any act in which purity of sexual life is concerned (marriage, divorce) requires no less than two witnesses. Ab. III, 13 שחוק … מרגילין (את האדם) לע׳ merriment and light-mindedness make man familiar with licentiousness; a. v. fr.Esp. incest, trnsf. ʿervah, a woman forbidden to a man ( and vice versa) on account of consanguinity. Yeb.3b מה אחות אשה מיוחדת שהיא ע׳ … אף כל שהיא ע׳וכ׳ as the sister of a mans (living) wife who is singled out (Lev. 18:18) as an ʿervah, with the punishment of extinction in case of wilfulness, and of a sin-offering in case of mistake, may not be taken in a levirate marriage, so no woman that is a forbidden relation … may be taken Ib. 13a צרות ע׳ the rivals of a woman forbidden on account of consanguinity; a. v. fr.Pl. עֲרָיוֹת (fr. עֶרְיָה). Keth.13b, v. אֶפִּיטְרוֹפּוֹס.גילוי ע׳, v. גִּילּוּי. Yeb.I, 2 היתה בתו או אחת מכל הע׳ האלווכ׳ if a mans daughter or any other of those (above mentioned) relations was married to his brother, Ib. 3b כל הע׳ האמורות בתורה all forbidden relations named in the Torah. Ib. I, 3 שש ע׳ חמורות מאלו six relations more rigorously forbidden than these. Meg.IV, 9, v. כָּנָה; a. fr.

עֶרְוָהf. (b. h.; עָרָה I) nakedness, shame; unchastity, lewdness, obscenity. Cant. R. to I, 2 מה מים מכסים עֶרְוָתוֹ … עֶרְוָתָן as water covers the nakedness of the sea, … so (study of) the Law covers up the nakedness (atones for the sins) of Israel. Ber.24b לבו רואה את הע׳ his heart sees the nakedness, i. e. there is no garment (girdle) separating the upper part of the body from the lower. Ib. 24a, משום ע׳ v. עֲגָבָה. Ib. קול באשה ע׳ hearing a womans voice is indecency (you must not read the Shmʿa while a woman is singing within your heaving); שער באשה ע׳ the sight of womans hair is an impropriety (with regard to reading the Shmʿa). Gitt.IX, 10 לא יגרש … דבר ע׳ a man must not divorce his wife, unless he have found in her something improper (v. Deut. 24:1). Ib. 90a (interpret. ערות דבר, Deut. l. c.) אם נאמר ערות … הייתי אומר משום ע׳ תצא משום דבר לא תצא if the text had ʿervath (meaning ʿervah) without dabar, I might have thought, for scandalous conduct she is to be dismissed, for ‘something (any other cause) she must not be dismissed. Ib. לא מצא בה לא ע׳ ולא דבר if he found in her neither indecency nor any other fault. Ib. 64a a. fr. אין דבר שבע׳ פחות משנים any act in which purity of sexual life is concerned (marriage, divorce) requires no less than two witnesses. Ab. III, 13 שחוק … מרגילין (את האדם) לע׳ merriment and light-mindedness make man familiar with licentiousness; a. v. fr.Esp. incest, trnsf. ʿervah, a woman forbidden to a man ( and vice versa) on account of consanguinity. Yeb.3b מה אחות אשה מיוחדת שהיא ע׳ … אף כל שהיא ע׳וכ׳ as the sister of a mans (living) wife who is singled out (Lev. 18:18) as an ʿervah, with the punishment of extinction in case of wilfulness, and of a sin-offering in case of mistake, may not be taken in a levirate marriage, so no woman that is a forbidden relation … may be taken Ib. 13a צרות ע׳ the rivals of a woman forbidden on account of consanguinity; a. v. fr.Pl. עֲרָיוֹת (fr. עֶרְיָה). Keth.13b, v. אֶפִּיטְרוֹפּוֹס.גילוי ע׳, v. גִּילּוּי. Yeb.I, 2 היתה בתו או אחת מכל הע׳ האלווכ׳ if a mans daughter or any other of those (above mentioned) relations was married to his brother, Ib. 3b כל הע׳ האמורות בתורה all forbidden relations named in the Torah. Ib. I, 3 שש ע׳ חמורות מאלו six relations more rigorously forbidden than these. Meg.IV, 9, v. כָּנָה; a. fr.

פָּסַל(b. h.) 1) to cut, chip, hew, trim. Tanḥ. ʿEḳeb 9 (ref. to Koh. 3:5) עת היה לִפְסוֹל שניוכ׳ the time came to hew other two tablets (in place of the broken). Ib. מתחת כסא הכבוד פְּסָלָן he hewed them from under the throne of glory. Ab. Zar.52a (ref. to Deut. 7:25) משפְּסָלוֹ נעשה אלוה as soon as a gentile has done chiselling on it, it becomes a deity (an idol forbidden to Jews for any use); ib. פסלו לאלוה לאוכ׳ when the gentile has hewed it for a god, thou shalt not covet it; פסלו מאלוה ולקחת לך when he chips it so as to unfit it as an idol (v. infra), thou mayest take it unto thyself; a. e.Part. pass. פָּסוּל; f. פְּסוּלָה; pl. פְּסוּלִים, פְּסוּלִין; פְּסוּלוֹת a) chiselled, chipped. Lev. R. s. 22 אבנים פ׳ chipped stones (unfit for the altar); a. e.b) (cmp. פָּגַם) defective, unfit, disqualified, v. פָּסוּל. 2) (denom. of פָּסוּל) to disqualify, to be the cause of disqualification of; to declare unfit. Ḥull.III, 12 פּוֹסְלִין, v. כָּשֵׁר I. Ab. Zar. l. c. מניין לנכרי שפּוֹסֵל אלוהו how will you prove that a gentile can cancel his deity (by disfiguring it)? Kidd.70a אוי לו לפוסל את זרעו ולפוגםוכ׳ woe to him who causes his descendants to be disqualified and his family to be tarnished. Ib. כל הפוסל פסול he who tarnishes (casts suspicion on the purity of a family) is himself tarnished (of spurious descent); במומו פוסל he charges others with his own defect. Ex. R. s. 1 החזירתו … ופ׳ את כלן she (Pharaohs daughter) took him (the infant Moses) around to all Egyptian women to give him suck, but he rejected all of them (refused to take their breasts); ולמה פְסָלָן and why did he reject them? Snh.III, 1 זה פוֹסֵל דיינו של זהוכ׳ each has a right to reject the judge chosen by the other; אם היו כשרים … אינו יכול לפוֹסְלָן if they are fit (not legally disqualified) or authorized, he cannot reject them. Ib. זה פוסל עדיווכ׳ every witness in a case may help by his testimony to disqualify the opposing partys witnesses. R. Hash. I, 7 קבלו … ופָסְלוּוכ׳ they accepted as witnesses himself and his son, and rejected his slave. Mikv. II, 4 פּוֹסְלִין את המקוה are sufficient to make the pond unfit for ritual immersion. Ib. VII, 5 לא פְסָלוּהוּ they do not make the blood unfit. Zeb.I, 4 המחשבה פוֹסֶלֶת the improper intention makes the sacrifice unfit. Succ.II, 7, a. e. בית שמאי פוסלין the school of Sh. declares such a Succah to be ritually unfit; a. v. fr.Trnsf. to cancel, abrogate. B. Kam.97a פְּסָלַתּוּ מלכות the government cancelled the coin; פסלתו מדינה the inhabitants of the district refused to pass it.Gen. R. s. 30, beg. כל מקום שנאמר אלה פ׳ את הראשוניםוכ׳ wherever the Biblical text has ‘these, it is meant to cancel (exclude) the preceding; wherever it has ‘and these, it is to add to the preceding; Ex. R. s. 1 אלה תולדות … פ׳וכ׳ ‘these are the origins of heaven and earth (Gen. 2:4), this excludes the time of chaos; a. fr. Nif. נִפִסַל 1) to be hewn, sculptured. Sifra Kdosh. beg. פסל על שהם נִפְסָלִין idols are named pesel, because they are sculptured; (Yalk. Lev. 604 פסולין). 2) to be disqualified, made unfit, declared unfit. Zeb.I, 4 הזבח נ׳ ארבעהוכ׳ a sacrifice may become unfit by improper actions in four stages, at the slaughtering Pes.15b; 45b הפת … ונִפְסְלָה מלאכול if bread becomes mouldy and unfit for man to eat. Toh. VIII, 6 עד שיִפָּסֵל מאוכל הכלב until it becomes unfit for a dog to eat; Y.Ḥall.IV, 60a top עד שתִּפְסוֹל. Men.100a, v. פְּסוֹל. Num. R. s. 6 end לא היו נִפְסָלִים אלא בקול they (the Levites) became unfit for service only when they lost their voice for song. B. Kam.IX, 2 נִפְסְלָה מעל גבי המזבח became unfit for the altar; a. fr.Trnsf. to be cancelled, abrogated. B. Kam. l. c. (גזל) מטבע ונ׳ if one stole a coin, and it was invalidated (before he made the restitution). Snh.104b (expl. סִלָּה, Lam. 1:15) כאדם שאומר לחברו נפסלה מטבע זו as one says to his neighbor, this coin is worthless; v. סָלָא; a. e. Pi. פִּיסֵּל to cut off dry twigs, to trim. Shebi. II, 3 מְפַסְּלִין עדוכ׳ (in the ante-Sabbatical year) you may trim trees up to New Year, v. פִּיסּוּל. Mikv. IX, 7 מְפַסְּלי אילנות trimmers of trees. Y.Sabb.VII, 10a top; a. e.Yalk. Deut. 942 מְפַסְּלוֹ במעצד he chips it (the crooked staff) with the adze; Sifré ib. 308 מפתלו (corr. acc.). Hif. הִפְסִיל to find fault, to speak contemptuously. Koh. R. to XI, 9 שהיה מַפְסִיל בנשיםוכ׳ who used to find fault with women (considering none good enough for him as wife), and was a profligate.(Part. pass. מוּפְסָל, v. next w.

פָּסַל(b. h.) 1) to cut, chip, hew, trim. Tanḥ. ʿEḳeb 9 (ref. to Koh. 3:5) עת היה לִפְסוֹל שניוכ׳ the time came to hew other two tablets (in place of the broken). Ib. מתחת כסא הכבוד פְּסָלָן he hewed them from under the throne of glory. Ab. Zar.52a (ref. to Deut. 7:25) משפְּסָלוֹ נעשה אלוה as soon as a gentile has done chiselling on it, it becomes a deity (an idol forbidden to Jews for any use); ib. פסלו לאלוה לאוכ׳ when the gentile has hewed it for a god, thou shalt not covet it; פסלו מאלוה ולקחת לך when he chips it so as to unfit it as an idol (v. infra), thou mayest take it unto thyself; a. e.Part. pass. פָּסוּל; f. פְּסוּלָה; pl. פְּסוּלִים, פְּסוּלִין; פְּסוּלוֹת a) chiselled, chipped. Lev. R. s. 22 אבנים פ׳ chipped stones (unfit for the altar); a. e.b) (cmp. פָּגַם) defective, unfit, disqualified, v. פָּסוּל. 2) (denom. of פָּסוּל) to disqualify, to be the cause of disqualification of; to declare unfit. Ḥull.III, 12 פּוֹסְלִין, v. כָּשֵׁר I. Ab. Zar. l. c. מניין לנכרי שפּוֹסֵל אלוהו how will you prove that a gentile can cancel his deity (by disfiguring it)? Kidd.70a אוי לו לפוסל את זרעו ולפוגםוכ׳ woe to him who causes his descendants to be disqualified and his family to be tarnished. Ib. כל הפוסל פסול he who tarnishes (casts suspicion on the purity of a family) is himself tarnished (of spurious descent); במומו פוסל he charges others with his own defect. Ex. R. s. 1 החזירתו … ופ׳ את כלן she (Pharaohs daughter) took him (the infant Moses) around to all Egyptian women to give him suck, but he rejected all of them (refused to take their breasts); ולמה פְסָלָן and why did he reject them? Snh.III, 1 זה פוֹסֵל דיינו של זהוכ׳ each has a right to reject the judge chosen by the other; אם היו כשרים … אינו יכול לפוֹסְלָן if they are fit (not legally disqualified) or authorized, he cannot reject them. Ib. זה פוסל עדיווכ׳ every witness in a case may help by his testimony to disqualify the opposing partys witnesses. R. Hash. I, 7 קבלו … ופָסְלוּוכ׳ they accepted as witnesses himself and his son, and rejected his slave. Mikv. II, 4 פּוֹסְלִין את המקוה are sufficient to make the pond unfit for ritual immersion. Ib. VII, 5 לא פְסָלוּהוּ they do not make the blood unfit. Zeb.I, 4 המחשבה פוֹסֶלֶת the improper intention makes the sacrifice unfit. Succ.II, 7, a. e. בית שמאי פוסלין the school of Sh. declares such a Succah to be ritually unfit; a. v. fr.Trnsf. to cancel, abrogate. B. Kam.97a פְּסָלַתּוּ מלכות the government cancelled the coin; פסלתו מדינה the inhabitants of the district refused to pass it.Gen. R. s. 30, beg. כל מקום שנאמר אלה פ׳ את הראשוניםוכ׳ wherever the Biblical text has ‘these, it is meant to cancel (exclude) the preceding; wherever it has ‘and these, it is to add to the preceding; Ex. R. s. 1 אלה תולדות … פ׳וכ׳ ‘these are the origins of heaven and earth (Gen. 2:4), this excludes the time of chaos; a. fr. Nif. נִפִסַל 1) to be hewn, sculptured. Sifra Kdosh. beg. פסל על שהם נִפְסָלִין idols are named pesel, because they are sculptured; (Yalk. Lev. 604 פסולין). 2) to be disqualified, made unfit, declared unfit. Zeb.I, 4 הזבח נ׳ ארבעהוכ׳ a sacrifice may become unfit by improper actions in four stages, at the slaughtering Pes.15b; 45b הפת … ונִפְסְלָה מלאכול if bread becomes mouldy and unfit for man to eat. Toh. VIII, 6 עד שיִפָּסֵל מאוכל הכלב until it becomes unfit for a dog to eat; Y.Ḥall.IV, 60a top עד שתִּפְסוֹל. Men.100a, v. פְּסוֹל. Num. R. s. 6 end לא היו נִפְסָלִים אלא בקול they (the Levites) became unfit for service only when they lost their voice for song. B. Kam.IX, 2 נִפְסְלָה מעל גבי המזבח became unfit for the altar; a. fr.Trnsf. to be cancelled, abrogated. B. Kam. l. c. (גזל) מטבע ונ׳ if one stole a coin, and it was invalidated (before he made the restitution). Snh.104b (expl. סִלָּה, Lam. 1:15) כאדם שאומר לחברו נפסלה מטבע זו as one says to his neighbor, this coin is worthless; v. סָלָא; a. e. Pi. פִּיסֵּל to cut off dry twigs, to trim. Shebi. II, 3 מְפַסְּלִין עדוכ׳ (in the ante-Sabbatical year) you may trim trees up to New Year, v. פִּיסּוּל. Mikv. IX, 7 מְפַסְּלי אילנות trimmers of trees. Y.Sabb.VII, 10a top; a. e.Yalk. Deut. 942 מְפַסְּלוֹ במעצד he chips it (the crooked staff) with the adze; Sifré ib. 308 מפתלו (corr. acc.). Hif. הִפְסִיל to find fault, to speak contemptuously. Koh. R. to XI, 9 שהיה מַפְסִיל בנשיםוכ׳ who used to find fault with women (considering none good enough for him as wife), and was a profligate.(Part. pass. מוּפְסָל, v. next w.

פִּקָּדוֹן, פִּיקָּ׳m. (b. h.; preced.) thing given in charge, deposit. Gen. R. s. 93, beg. לית שמיה פקדון אלא פּוּק פּוֹן (some ed. פוקדון in one word) it ought not to he called piḳḳadon, but puḳ don (go out of this, avoid it; דון for דין). Shebu.V, 1 שבועת הפ׳ the oath concerning a deposit. Ib. 2 תן לי פִּקְדּוֹנִי give me my deposit back. Ib. V, 7 מי שהפ׳ אצלו the trustee. Num. R. s. 9 (ref. to Num. 5:12 ומעלה בו מעל, a. Lev. 5:21) לפי שהיא כופרת בפ׳ because she betrays a trust; מה ממון הקל כל הכופר בפ׳ … בפִקְרּוֹן גוףוכ׳ if in money matters which are of slighter import, he who denies a deposit is considered like denying the Lord, how much more so is one who denies the deposit of a body (purity of the family)! Tanḥ. Shofṭim 12 פ׳ אחד … תן לו פִּקְדּוֹנוֹוכ׳ one deposit has he (the Lord) with thee, give it back to him and make thyself a god; ומה פקרונווכ׳ and what is his deposit? Said she, the soul within thee; a. v. fr.Pl. פִּקְדּוֹנוֹת, פִּיקְ׳. Gen. R. l. c. ברח מן הפ׳ flee from receiving trusts; Yeb. 109a.בעל פ׳ trustee. Gen. R. s. 53; Pesik. R. s. 43, v. פָּקַר; a. e.

פִּקָּדוֹן, פִּיקָּ׳m. (b. h.; preced.) thing given in charge, deposit. Gen. R. s. 93, beg. לית שמיה פקדון אלא פּוּק פּוֹן (some ed. פוקדון in one word) it ought not to he called piḳḳadon, but puḳ don (go out of this, avoid it; דון for דין). Shebu.V, 1 שבועת הפ׳ the oath concerning a deposit. Ib. 2 תן לי פִּקְדּוֹנִי give me my deposit back. Ib. V, 7 מי שהפ׳ אצלו the trustee. Num. R. s. 9 (ref. to Num. 5:12 ומעלה בו מעל, a. Lev. 5:21) לפי שהיא כופרת בפ׳ because she betrays a trust; מה ממון הקל כל הכופר בפ׳ … בפִקְרּוֹן גוףוכ׳ if in money matters which are of slighter import, he who denies a deposit is considered like denying the Lord, how much more so is one who denies the deposit of a body (purity of the family)! Tanḥ. Shofṭim 12 פ׳ אחד … תן לו פִּקְדּוֹנוֹוכ׳ one deposit has he (the Lord) with thee, give it back to him and make thyself a god; ומה פקרונווכ׳ and what is his deposit? Said she, the soul within thee; a. v. fr.Pl. פִּקְדּוֹנוֹת, פִּיקְ׳. Gen. R. l. c. ברח מן הפ׳ flee from receiving trusts; Yeb. 109a.בעל פ׳ trustee. Gen. R. s. 53; Pesik. R. s. 43, v. פָּקַר; a. e.

פִּקָּדוֹן, פִּיקָּ׳m. (b. h.; preced.) thing given in charge, deposit. Gen. R. s. 93, beg. לית שמיה פקדון אלא פּוּק פּוֹן (some ed. פוקדון in one word) it ought not to he called piḳḳadon, but puḳ don (go out of this, avoid it; דון for דין). Shebu.V, 1 שבועת הפ׳ the oath concerning a deposit. Ib. 2 תן לי פִּקְדּוֹנִי give me my deposit back. Ib. V, 7 מי שהפ׳ אצלו the trustee. Num. R. s. 9 (ref. to Num. 5:12 ומעלה בו מעל, a. Lev. 5:21) לפי שהיא כופרת בפ׳ because she betrays a trust; מה ממון הקל כל הכופר בפ׳ … בפִקְרּוֹן גוףוכ׳ if in money matters which are of slighter import, he who denies a deposit is considered like denying the Lord, how much more so is one who denies the deposit of a body (purity of the family)! Tanḥ. Shofṭim 12 פ׳ אחד … תן לו פִּקְדּוֹנוֹוכ׳ one deposit has he (the Lord) with thee, give it back to him and make thyself a god; ומה פקרונווכ׳ and what is his deposit? Said she, the soul within thee; a. v. fr.Pl. פִּקְדּוֹנוֹת, פִּיקְ׳. Gen. R. l. c. ברח מן הפ׳ flee from receiving trusts; Yeb. 109a.בעל פ׳ trustee. Gen. R. s. 53; Pesik. R. s. 43, v. פָּקַר; a. e.

פִּקָּדוֹן, פִּיקָּ׳m. (b. h.; preced.) thing given in charge, deposit. Gen. R. s. 93, beg. לית שמיה פקדון אלא פּוּק פּוֹן (some ed. פוקדון in one word) it ought not to he called piḳḳadon, but puḳ don (go out of this, avoid it; דון for דין). Shebu.V, 1 שבועת הפ׳ the oath concerning a deposit. Ib. 2 תן לי פִּקְדּוֹנִי give me my deposit back. Ib. V, 7 מי שהפ׳ אצלו the trustee. Num. R. s. 9 (ref. to Num. 5:12 ומעלה בו מעל, a. Lev. 5:21) לפי שהיא כופרת בפ׳ because she betrays a trust; מה ממון הקל כל הכופר בפ׳ … בפִקְרּוֹן גוףוכ׳ if in money matters which are of slighter import, he who denies a deposit is considered like denying the Lord, how much more so is one who denies the deposit of a body (purity of the family)! Tanḥ. Shofṭim 12 פ׳ אחד … תן לו פִּקְדּוֹנוֹוכ׳ one deposit has he (the Lord) with thee, give it back to him and make thyself a god; ומה פקרונווכ׳ and what is his deposit? Said she, the soul within thee; a. v. fr.Pl. פִּקְדּוֹנוֹת, פִּיקְ׳. Gen. R. l. c. ברח מן הפ׳ flee from receiving trusts; Yeb. 109a.בעל פ׳ trustee. Gen. R. s. 53; Pesik. R. s. 43, v. פָּקַר; a. e.

פְּרִישוּתf. (פָּרַש) 1) separation, parting. Gen. R. s. 70, a. e., v. נְשִׁיקָה. 2) (v. פָּרוּש) abstinence, restriction, self-restraint, piety. Yoma 74b פ׳ דרך ארץ the enforced abstinence from marital connection. Num. R. s. 10, a. e., v. נְזִירוּת. Sot.IX, 15 משמת … טהרה ופ׳ with the death of … ceased the dignity of the Law, and levitical purity and abstinence died out. Ib. טהרה מביאה לידי פ׳ ופ׳וכ׳ levitical cleanness leads to self-control, and self-control to sanctity; a. e.

פְּרִישוּתf. (פָּרַש) 1) separation, parting. Gen. R. s. 70, a. e., v. נְשִׁיקָה. 2) (v. פָּרוּש) abstinence, restriction, self-restraint, piety. Yoma 74b פ׳ דרך ארץ the enforced abstinence from marital connection. Num. R. s. 10, a. e., v. נְזִירוּת. Sot.IX, 15 משמת … טהרה ופ׳ with the death of … ceased the dignity of the Law, and levitical purity and abstinence died out. Ib. טהרה מביאה לידי פ׳ ופ׳וכ׳ levitical cleanness leads to self-control, and self-control to sanctity; a. e.

פָּשַׁע(b. h.) ( to pass beyond, 1) to be wilful, rebellious. Yoma IV, 2 פָּשַׁעְתִּי; ib. VI, 2 פָּשְׁעוּ, v. עָוָה; a. fr.פּוֹשֵׂעַ a wilful transgressor, rebel, apostate. Gitt.57a פ׳ ישראל a Jewish apostate (the censors disguise for Jesus). Ib. תא חזי מה בין פּוֹשְׁעֵי ישראלוכ׳ come and see the difference between Jewish apostates and gentile prophets. R. Hash. 17a פ׳ ישראל בגופן Jewish sinners with their bodies (disregarding the ceremonial laws intended to guard the purity of life); פ׳ אומות העולם בגופן gentile sinners with their bodies (lustful and violent). Midr. Till. to Ps. 51 כשאתה אומר לפּוֹשְׁעִים … אם תקבלני כל הפושעים משלימים לך when thou sayest to the sinners, why have you not repented? (they may plead ignorance of thy goodness, but) if thou receivest me, all sinners will make peace with thee; a. fr. 2) to be faithless. Gen. R. s. 52 (ref. to Prov. 18:19) פָּשַׁעְתָּ באברהם thou (Lot) wast faithless to Abraham; Num. R. s. 18 זה קרח שפ׳ בתורהוכ׳ this refers to Korah who was faithless to the Law, which is called ‘strength; a. fr.Esp. (with ref. to Ex. 22:8) to be negligent in guarding a trust. B. Mets.36b פ׳ בהוכ׳ if he was careless in guarding the animal, and it went out Ib. 34a כיון שאמר פשעתיוכ׳ as soon as he says, ‘I have been at fault, he surrenders the eventual fine (of the thief) to the owner. Ib. 58a כי היכי דלא לקרו להו פושעים in order that they may not be called faithless guardians; a. fr.Ber.28a ונקרא פושע and he is called negligent (because he delayed his prayers). Hif. הִפְשִׁיעַ to cause to transgress. Num. R. s. 9 (ref. to Ex. 22:8) מדבר באהרן שה׳ ישראל בדיבור לא יהיה it alludes to Aaron who caused Israel to transgress the commandment, ‘thou shalt have no other gods (Ex. 20:3).