Sabbath limits

תְּחוּםm. (cmp. חוֹמָה) (surrounded, marked place, dominion, area, district, border, limits. Tosef.Shebi.IV, 9, a. fr. בת׳ צור in the district of Tyre. Ib. 11 ת׳ ארץ ישראלוכ׳ the border lines of Palestine (with regard to agricultural laws) are ; (Y. ib. VI, 36c top תְּחוּמֵי pl.).Y.Ber.VIII, 12c top (ref. to Gen. 1:8) לאור … היום יהא תְחוּמְךָוכ׳ to the light he said, the day be thy dominion, to the darkness he said, the night be thy dominion; Gen. R. s. 3; Yalk. Job 924. Gen. R. s. 6 על ידי שנכנס בתְחוּמוֹוכ׳ because it (the moon) trespassed on its neighbors (the suns) dominion; Yalk. ib. 8; a. fr.Esp. ת׳ שבת, or ת׳ the ( marked off) area around a town or place within which it is permitted to move on the Sabbath (based on Ex. 16:29), Sabbath limits (two thousand cubits in every direction). Erub.IV, 3. Ib. III, 4. Ib. 51b ויצא עשיר חוץ לת׳וכ׳ and the rich man may go (on Friday) beyond the Sabbath district and say, this be my resting point (שְׁבִיתָה). Ḥag.15a עד כאן ת̇׳ שבת here the Sabbath limits end (you dare not go beyond). Ab. Zar.8b עיר … ות׳ שסומכיןוכ׳ the town in which an ordination takes place, shall be destroyed; and the Sabbath district (around it) in which an ordination is held, shall be laid waste; a. fr.Pl. תְּחוּמִים, תְּחוּמִין. Ib. הלך … בין שני תְחוּמֵי שבתוכ׳ he went and sat down (to ordain scholars) between two mountains, and between two large towns, between two Sabbath districts (in an area belonging to neither town), between Usha Erub. l. c. כגון שיש לו … ושני תחומי שבת ביניהן when he has two houses with two Sabbath distances between them. Ib. 44b אם היו ת׳ … נבלעיןוכ׳ if the limits which the scholars assigned to him (to travel on the Sabbath for public necessities) overlapped his own (ordinary) Sabbath limits. Ib., a. e. הבלעת ת׳ the overlapping of districts. Ib. 35b ת׳ דאורייתא נינהו the law concerning Sabbath limits is Biblical; ib. 36a ת׳ דרבנן is a rabbinical enactment.Y. Shebi. l. c., v. supra; a. v. fr.Tosef.Shebi.I, 9 תחומין, תחומן, v. תָּחוּב.

תְּחוּםm. (cmp. חוֹמָה) (surrounded, marked place, dominion, area, district, border, limits. Tosef.Shebi.IV, 9, a. fr. בת׳ צור in the district of Tyre. Ib. 11 ת׳ ארץ ישראלוכ׳ the border lines of Palestine (with regard to agricultural laws) are ; (Y. ib. VI, 36c top תְּחוּמֵי pl.).Y.Ber.VIII, 12c top (ref. to Gen. 1:8) לאור … היום יהא תְחוּמְךָוכ׳ to the light he said, the day be thy dominion, to the darkness he said, the night be thy dominion; Gen. R. s. 3; Yalk. Job 924. Gen. R. s. 6 על ידי שנכנס בתְחוּמוֹוכ׳ because it (the moon) trespassed on its neighbors (the suns) dominion; Yalk. ib. 8; a. fr.Esp. ת׳ שבת, or ת׳ the ( marked off) area around a town or place within which it is permitted to move on the Sabbath (based on Ex. 16:29), Sabbath limits (two thousand cubits in every direction). Erub.IV, 3. Ib. III, 4. Ib. 51b ויצא עשיר חוץ לת׳וכ׳ and the rich man may go (on Friday) beyond the Sabbath district and say, this be my resting point (שְׁבִיתָה). Ḥag.15a עד כאן ת̇׳ שבת here the Sabbath limits end (you dare not go beyond). Ab. Zar.8b עיר … ות׳ שסומכיןוכ׳ the town in which an ordination takes place, shall be destroyed; and the Sabbath district (around it) in which an ordination is held, shall be laid waste; a. fr.Pl. תְּחוּמִים, תְּחוּמִין. Ib. הלך … בין שני תְחוּמֵי שבתוכ׳ he went and sat down (to ordain scholars) between two mountains, and between two large towns, between two Sabbath districts (in an area belonging to neither town), between Usha Erub. l. c. כגון שיש לו … ושני תחומי שבת ביניהן when he has two houses with two Sabbath distances between them. Ib. 44b אם היו ת׳ … נבלעיןוכ׳ if the limits which the scholars assigned to him (to travel on the Sabbath for public necessities) overlapped his own (ordinary) Sabbath limits. Ib., a. e. הבלעת ת׳ the overlapping of districts. Ib. 35b ת׳ דאורייתא נינהו the law concerning Sabbath limits is Biblical; ib. 36a ת׳ דרבנן is a rabbinical enactment.Y. Shebi. l. c., v. supra; a. v. fr.Tosef.Shebi.I, 9 תחומין, תחומן, v. תָּחוּב.

עֵירוּב, עֵר׳m. (עָרַב I) 1) interweaving, mixture, conjunction. Kinn. I, 4 שתי נשים שלקחו … בע׳ two women that bought their birds for sacrifices in common (not designating which of them belonged to the one and which to the other). Mikv. VI, 7 ע׳ מקואות in the case of two bathing reservoirs joined (a connection having formed between them); Ḥag.21b; Yeb.15a. Y.Pes.III, beg.29d על עֵירוּבוֹ for eating leavened matter in a mixture, opp. חמץ ברור; Bab. ib. 43a; a. e.Pl. עֶירוּבִין, עֵר׳. Y.Orl.II, 61d bot. Y.Bicc.II, 65a top אין הביכורין … עֵירוּבֵיהֶןוכ׳ first-fruits have no prohibitive effect on mixtures or on what has grown of them as to eating them in Jerusalem. Ib. עֵירוּבֵי בכורים mixtures of first-fruits with common ones; ע׳ מעשר mixtures of tithes with secular fruit. עירוב פרשיות an interweaving of biblical sections, clauses of one section taken over, for interpretative purposes, to a succeeding section; misplacement. B. Kam. 107a (ref. to the clause אשר יאמר … שניהם, Ex. 22:8) ע׳ פ׳ כתוב כאןוכ׳ here is a misplacement, and the words Ki hu zeh (which intimate that an oath can be administered only when the defendant admits a part of the claim) refer to the subject of loans (Ex. l. c. 24 sq.). Snh.2b אי קסבר ע׳ פ׳ … ליבעי נמי מומחין if he adopts the opinion that here is a misplaced clause (and ki hu zeh refers to loans), let him also require authorized, learned judges (אלהים)! 2) ‘Erub, a symbolical act by which the legal fiction of community or continuity is established, e. g. a) with ref. to Sabbath limits (תחומין): a person deposits, before the Sabbath (or the Holy Day), certain eatables to remain in their place over the next day, by which act he transfers his abode to that place, and his movements on the Sabbath are measured from it as the centre; b) with ref. to buildings with a common court (חצירות): the inmates contribute their share towards a dish which is deposited in one of the dwellings, by which act all the dwellings are considered as common to all (one רָשוּת), and the carrying of objects on the Sabbath from one to the other and across the court is permitted; c) with ref. to preparing meals (תבשילין) for the Sabbath on a Holy Day occurring on a Friday: a person prepares a dish on Thursday and lets it lie over until the end of the Sabbath, by which fiction all the cooking for the Sabbath which he does on the Holy Day (Friday) is merely a continuation of the preparation begun on Thursday. Erub.III, 2 השולח עֵרוּבוֹ … ביד מי שאינו מודה בע׳ if a person sends his ‘Erub (the eatables to be deposited) through a deaf mute or through one who does not believe in the Erub (e. g. a Samaritan), אינו ע׳ it is not a legal ‘Erub. Ib. 3 אין ערובו ע׳ his Erub is not legal. Ib. 5 מתנה אדם על ערובו … עֵרוּבִיוכ׳ a person may make his Sabbath centre conditional (by laying two ‘Erubs on two opposite points) and say, if gentile troops should invade from the east, my Sabbath centre shall be on the western side Ib. VI, 10 נתנו עֵרוּבָן במקוםוכ׳ if the inmates of a court placed their ‘Erub (common dish) at a certain place, but one, of the inner or of the outer court, had forgotten to contribute his share. Ib. VII, 9 בתחלת ע׳ when the common dish is in its original state; בשירי ע׳ when there are merely remnants left over. Bets.15b מי שהיה לו להניח ערובווכ׳ he who had the means to prepare and leave a dish on Thursday and does not do it; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Erub.21b בשעה שהתקין שלמה ע׳ when Solomon introduced the ‘Erub. Ib. VII, 11 עֵרוּבֵי תחומין ‘Erubs for the purpose of regulating Sabbath limits; ע׳ חצירות for the purpose of regulating the Sabbath movements of inmates of common courts. Yoma 28b קיים …אפי׳ עירובי תבשילין Abraham observed even the regulations concerning preparations for the Sabbath on a Holy Day preceding it. Bets. l. c. מי שלא היה לו להניח ע׳ תבשילין he who had not the means to prepare a dish on Thursday (v. supra). Gen. R. s. 49 אפי׳ הילכות עירובי חצירותוכ׳ Abraham knew even the laws regulating Sabbath movements among inmates of a court by means of ‘Erub; a. fr.‘Erubin, name of a treatise, of the Order of Moʿed, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Yrushalmi.

עֵירוּב, עֵר׳m. (עָרַב I) 1) interweaving, mixture, conjunction. Kinn. I, 4 שתי נשים שלקחו … בע׳ two women that bought their birds for sacrifices in common (not designating which of them belonged to the one and which to the other). Mikv. VI, 7 ע׳ מקואות in the case of two bathing reservoirs joined (a connection having formed between them); Ḥag.21b; Yeb.15a. Y.Pes.III, beg.29d על עֵירוּבוֹ for eating leavened matter in a mixture, opp. חמץ ברור; Bab. ib. 43a; a. e.Pl. עֶירוּבִין, עֵר׳. Y.Orl.II, 61d bot. Y.Bicc.II, 65a top אין הביכורין … עֵירוּבֵיהֶןוכ׳ first-fruits have no prohibitive effect on mixtures or on what has grown of them as to eating them in Jerusalem. Ib. עֵירוּבֵי בכורים mixtures of first-fruits with common ones; ע׳ מעשר mixtures of tithes with secular fruit. עירוב פרשיות an interweaving of biblical sections, clauses of one section taken over, for interpretative purposes, to a succeeding section; misplacement. B. Kam. 107a (ref. to the clause אשר יאמר … שניהם, Ex. 22:8) ע׳ פ׳ כתוב כאןוכ׳ here is a misplacement, and the words Ki hu zeh (which intimate that an oath can be administered only when the defendant admits a part of the claim) refer to the subject of loans (Ex. l. c. 24 sq.). Snh.2b אי קסבר ע׳ פ׳ … ליבעי נמי מומחין if he adopts the opinion that here is a misplaced clause (and ki hu zeh refers to loans), let him also require authorized, learned judges (אלהים)! 2) ‘Erub, a symbolical act by which the legal fiction of community or continuity is established, e. g. a) with ref. to Sabbath limits (תחומין): a person deposits, before the Sabbath (or the Holy Day), certain eatables to remain in their place over the next day, by which act he transfers his abode to that place, and his movements on the Sabbath are measured from it as the centre; b) with ref. to buildings with a common court (חצירות): the inmates contribute their share towards a dish which is deposited in one of the dwellings, by which act all the dwellings are considered as common to all (one רָשוּת), and the carrying of objects on the Sabbath from one to the other and across the court is permitted; c) with ref. to preparing meals (תבשילין) for the Sabbath on a Holy Day occurring on a Friday: a person prepares a dish on Thursday and lets it lie over until the end of the Sabbath, by which fiction all the cooking for the Sabbath which he does on the Holy Day (Friday) is merely a continuation of the preparation begun on Thursday. Erub.III, 2 השולח עֵרוּבוֹ … ביד מי שאינו מודה בע׳ if a person sends his ‘Erub (the eatables to be deposited) through a deaf mute or through one who does not believe in the Erub (e. g. a Samaritan), אינו ע׳ it is not a legal ‘Erub. Ib. 3 אין ערובו ע׳ his Erub is not legal. Ib. 5 מתנה אדם על ערובו … עֵרוּבִיוכ׳ a person may make his Sabbath centre conditional (by laying two ‘Erubs on two opposite points) and say, if gentile troops should invade from the east, my Sabbath centre shall be on the western side Ib. VI, 10 נתנו עֵרוּבָן במקוםוכ׳ if the inmates of a court placed their ‘Erub (common dish) at a certain place, but one, of the inner or of the outer court, had forgotten to contribute his share. Ib. VII, 9 בתחלת ע׳ when the common dish is in its original state; בשירי ע׳ when there are merely remnants left over. Bets.15b מי שהיה לו להניח ערובווכ׳ he who had the means to prepare and leave a dish on Thursday and does not do it; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Erub.21b בשעה שהתקין שלמה ע׳ when Solomon introduced the ‘Erub. Ib. VII, 11 עֵרוּבֵי תחומין ‘Erubs for the purpose of regulating Sabbath limits; ע׳ חצירות for the purpose of regulating the Sabbath movements of inmates of common courts. Yoma 28b קיים …אפי׳ עירובי תבשילין Abraham observed even the regulations concerning preparations for the Sabbath on a Holy Day preceding it. Bets. l. c. מי שלא היה לו להניח ע׳ תבשילין he who had not the means to prepare a dish on Thursday (v. supra). Gen. R. s. 49 אפי׳ הילכות עירובי חצירותוכ׳ Abraham knew even the laws regulating Sabbath movements among inmates of a court by means of ‘Erub; a. fr.‘Erubin, name of a treatise, of the Order of Moʿed, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Yrushalmi.

עֵירוּב, עֵר׳m. (עָרַב I) 1) interweaving, mixture, conjunction. Kinn. I, 4 שתי נשים שלקחו … בע׳ two women that bought their birds for sacrifices in common (not designating which of them belonged to the one and which to the other). Mikv. VI, 7 ע׳ מקואות in the case of two bathing reservoirs joined (a connection having formed between them); Ḥag.21b; Yeb.15a. Y.Pes.III, beg.29d על עֵירוּבוֹ for eating leavened matter in a mixture, opp. חמץ ברור; Bab. ib. 43a; a. e.Pl. עֶירוּבִין, עֵר׳. Y.Orl.II, 61d bot. Y.Bicc.II, 65a top אין הביכורין … עֵירוּבֵיהֶןוכ׳ first-fruits have no prohibitive effect on mixtures or on what has grown of them as to eating them in Jerusalem. Ib. עֵירוּבֵי בכורים mixtures of first-fruits with common ones; ע׳ מעשר mixtures of tithes with secular fruit. עירוב פרשיות an interweaving of biblical sections, clauses of one section taken over, for interpretative purposes, to a succeeding section; misplacement. B. Kam. 107a (ref. to the clause אשר יאמר … שניהם, Ex. 22:8) ע׳ פ׳ כתוב כאןוכ׳ here is a misplacement, and the words Ki hu zeh (which intimate that an oath can be administered only when the defendant admits a part of the claim) refer to the subject of loans (Ex. l. c. 24 sq.). Snh.2b אי קסבר ע׳ פ׳ … ליבעי נמי מומחין if he adopts the opinion that here is a misplaced clause (and ki hu zeh refers to loans), let him also require authorized, learned judges (אלהים)! 2) ‘Erub, a symbolical act by which the legal fiction of community or continuity is established, e. g. a) with ref. to Sabbath limits (תחומין): a person deposits, before the Sabbath (or the Holy Day), certain eatables to remain in their place over the next day, by which act he transfers his abode to that place, and his movements on the Sabbath are measured from it as the centre; b) with ref. to buildings with a common court (חצירות): the inmates contribute their share towards a dish which is deposited in one of the dwellings, by which act all the dwellings are considered as common to all (one רָשוּת), and the carrying of objects on the Sabbath from one to the other and across the court is permitted; c) with ref. to preparing meals (תבשילין) for the Sabbath on a Holy Day occurring on a Friday: a person prepares a dish on Thursday and lets it lie over until the end of the Sabbath, by which fiction all the cooking for the Sabbath which he does on the Holy Day (Friday) is merely a continuation of the preparation begun on Thursday. Erub.III, 2 השולח עֵרוּבוֹ … ביד מי שאינו מודה בע׳ if a person sends his ‘Erub (the eatables to be deposited) through a deaf mute or through one who does not believe in the Erub (e. g. a Samaritan), אינו ע׳ it is not a legal ‘Erub. Ib. 3 אין ערובו ע׳ his Erub is not legal. Ib. 5 מתנה אדם על ערובו … עֵרוּבִיוכ׳ a person may make his Sabbath centre conditional (by laying two ‘Erubs on two opposite points) and say, if gentile troops should invade from the east, my Sabbath centre shall be on the western side Ib. VI, 10 נתנו עֵרוּבָן במקוםוכ׳ if the inmates of a court placed their ‘Erub (common dish) at a certain place, but one, of the inner or of the outer court, had forgotten to contribute his share. Ib. VII, 9 בתחלת ע׳ when the common dish is in its original state; בשירי ע׳ when there are merely remnants left over. Bets.15b מי שהיה לו להניח ערובווכ׳ he who had the means to prepare and leave a dish on Thursday and does not do it; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Erub.21b בשעה שהתקין שלמה ע׳ when Solomon introduced the ‘Erub. Ib. VII, 11 עֵרוּבֵי תחומין ‘Erubs for the purpose of regulating Sabbath limits; ע׳ חצירות for the purpose of regulating the Sabbath movements of inmates of common courts. Yoma 28b קיים …אפי׳ עירובי תבשילין Abraham observed even the regulations concerning preparations for the Sabbath on a Holy Day preceding it. Bets. l. c. מי שלא היה לו להניח ע׳ תבשילין he who had not the means to prepare a dish on Thursday (v. supra). Gen. R. s. 49 אפי׳ הילכות עירובי חצירותוכ׳ Abraham knew even the laws regulating Sabbath movements among inmates of a court by means of ‘Erub; a. fr.‘Erubin, name of a treatise, of the Order of Moʿed, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Yrushalmi.

עֵירוּב, עֵר׳m. (עָרַב I) 1) interweaving, mixture, conjunction. Kinn. I, 4 שתי נשים שלקחו … בע׳ two women that bought their birds for sacrifices in common (not designating which of them belonged to the one and which to the other). Mikv. VI, 7 ע׳ מקואות in the case of two bathing reservoirs joined (a connection having formed between them); Ḥag.21b; Yeb.15a. Y.Pes.III, beg.29d על עֵירוּבוֹ for eating leavened matter in a mixture, opp. חמץ ברור; Bab. ib. 43a; a. e.Pl. עֶירוּבִין, עֵר׳. Y.Orl.II, 61d bot. Y.Bicc.II, 65a top אין הביכורין … עֵירוּבֵיהֶןוכ׳ first-fruits have no prohibitive effect on mixtures or on what has grown of them as to eating them in Jerusalem. Ib. עֵירוּבֵי בכורים mixtures of first-fruits with common ones; ע׳ מעשר mixtures of tithes with secular fruit. עירוב פרשיות an interweaving of biblical sections, clauses of one section taken over, for interpretative purposes, to a succeeding section; misplacement. B. Kam. 107a (ref. to the clause אשר יאמר … שניהם, Ex. 22:8) ע׳ פ׳ כתוב כאןוכ׳ here is a misplacement, and the words Ki hu zeh (which intimate that an oath can be administered only when the defendant admits a part of the claim) refer to the subject of loans (Ex. l. c. 24 sq.). Snh.2b אי קסבר ע׳ פ׳ … ליבעי נמי מומחין if he adopts the opinion that here is a misplaced clause (and ki hu zeh refers to loans), let him also require authorized, learned judges (אלהים)! 2) ‘Erub, a symbolical act by which the legal fiction of community or continuity is established, e. g. a) with ref. to Sabbath limits (תחומין): a person deposits, before the Sabbath (or the Holy Day), certain eatables to remain in their place over the next day, by which act he transfers his abode to that place, and his movements on the Sabbath are measured from it as the centre; b) with ref. to buildings with a common court (חצירות): the inmates contribute their share towards a dish which is deposited in one of the dwellings, by which act all the dwellings are considered as common to all (one רָשוּת), and the carrying of objects on the Sabbath from one to the other and across the court is permitted; c) with ref. to preparing meals (תבשילין) for the Sabbath on a Holy Day occurring on a Friday: a person prepares a dish on Thursday and lets it lie over until the end of the Sabbath, by which fiction all the cooking for the Sabbath which he does on the Holy Day (Friday) is merely a continuation of the preparation begun on Thursday. Erub.III, 2 השולח עֵרוּבוֹ … ביד מי שאינו מודה בע׳ if a person sends his ‘Erub (the eatables to be deposited) through a deaf mute or through one who does not believe in the Erub (e. g. a Samaritan), אינו ע׳ it is not a legal ‘Erub. Ib. 3 אין ערובו ע׳ his Erub is not legal. Ib. 5 מתנה אדם על ערובו … עֵרוּבִיוכ׳ a person may make his Sabbath centre conditional (by laying two ‘Erubs on two opposite points) and say, if gentile troops should invade from the east, my Sabbath centre shall be on the western side Ib. VI, 10 נתנו עֵרוּבָן במקוםוכ׳ if the inmates of a court placed their ‘Erub (common dish) at a certain place, but one, of the inner or of the outer court, had forgotten to contribute his share. Ib. VII, 9 בתחלת ע׳ when the common dish is in its original state; בשירי ע׳ when there are merely remnants left over. Bets.15b מי שהיה לו להניח ערובווכ׳ he who had the means to prepare and leave a dish on Thursday and does not do it; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Erub.21b בשעה שהתקין שלמה ע׳ when Solomon introduced the ‘Erub. Ib. VII, 11 עֵרוּבֵי תחומין ‘Erubs for the purpose of regulating Sabbath limits; ע׳ חצירות for the purpose of regulating the Sabbath movements of inmates of common courts. Yoma 28b קיים …אפי׳ עירובי תבשילין Abraham observed even the regulations concerning preparations for the Sabbath on a Holy Day preceding it. Bets. l. c. מי שלא היה לו להניח ע׳ תבשילין he who had not the means to prepare a dish on Thursday (v. supra). Gen. R. s. 49 אפי׳ הילכות עירובי חצירותוכ׳ Abraham knew even the laws regulating Sabbath movements among inmates of a court by means of ‘Erub; a. fr.‘Erubin, name of a treatise, of the Order of Moʿed, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Yrushalmi.

קַרְפִּיף, קַרְפִּףm. (Parel of קפף, cmp. נָקַף II Hif.) 1) enclosure, esp. an enclosed space outside of a settlement, for storage of wood Erub.II, 3 לא אמרו … לגנה ולק׳ they limited the area to two Sahs only for a garden and a storehouse. Ib. 5 הגינה והק׳ שהןוכ׳ a garden or a ḳarpif of seventy (cubits) and a fraction by seventy and a fraction, surrounded by a fence ten handbreadths high Bets.IV, 2 מביאין … ומן הק׳וכ׳ you may bring in (on the Holy Day for immediate use) wood from the field, taking from what is piled up, and from the k. even from what lies around scattered; איזהו ק׳ כלוכ׳ what is understood by k.? An enclosed space near the town. B. Bath.24b ק׳ … שהיקף לדירה a ḳ … which has been enclosed for living purposes; a. fr. 2) an area (of seventy square cubits) outside of a town, added to the city limits for the purposes of Sabbath distances Erub.V, 2 נותנין ק׳ לעיר for measuring Sabbath limits we allow a ḳ. to each town; וחכמים … ק׳ אלא ביןוכ׳ but the scholars say, a ḳ. as an extension to city limits is allowed only in the case of two neighboring towns; אם יש לזו … עושה ק׳ לשתיהן להיותן כאחת (Y. ed. קִרְפּוּף) if there is a space of seventy cubits for one and an equal space for the other, this forms a ḳ. for both, so that they may be considered as one town. Ib. 57a מאי ק׳ תורת ק׳ by ḳ. the scholars mean the application of the law of ḳ. (as an extension to the town); a. fr.Pl. קַרְפִּיפוֹת. Ib. IX, 1 אחד גגות … ק׳ רשותוכ׳ joint roofs, courts, and enclosures are each considered as one area (for Sabbath movements). Ib. 89a; a. fr.

קַרְפִּיף, קַרְפִּףm. (Parel of קפף, cmp. נָקַף II Hif.) 1) enclosure, esp. an enclosed space outside of a settlement, for storage of wood Erub.II, 3 לא אמרו … לגנה ולק׳ they limited the area to two Sahs only for a garden and a storehouse. Ib. 5 הגינה והק׳ שהןוכ׳ a garden or a ḳarpif of seventy (cubits) and a fraction by seventy and a fraction, surrounded by a fence ten handbreadths high Bets.IV, 2 מביאין … ומן הק׳וכ׳ you may bring in (on the Holy Day for immediate use) wood from the field, taking from what is piled up, and from the k. even from what lies around scattered; איזהו ק׳ כלוכ׳ what is understood by k.? An enclosed space near the town. B. Bath.24b ק׳ … שהיקף לדירה a ḳ … which has been enclosed for living purposes; a. fr. 2) an area (of seventy square cubits) outside of a town, added to the city limits for the purposes of Sabbath distances Erub.V, 2 נותנין ק׳ לעיר for measuring Sabbath limits we allow a ḳ. to each town; וחכמים … ק׳ אלא ביןוכ׳ but the scholars say, a ḳ. as an extension to city limits is allowed only in the case of two neighboring towns; אם יש לזו … עושה ק׳ לשתיהן להיותן כאחת (Y. ed. קִרְפּוּף) if there is a space of seventy cubits for one and an equal space for the other, this forms a ḳ. for both, so that they may be considered as one town. Ib. 57a מאי ק׳ תורת ק׳ by ḳ. the scholars mean the application of the law of ḳ. (as an extension to the town); a. fr.Pl. קַרְפִּיפוֹת. Ib. IX, 1 אחד גגות … ק׳ רשותוכ׳ joint roofs, courts, and enclosures are each considered as one area (for Sabbath movements). Ib. 89a; a. fr.

קַרְפִּיף, קַרְפִּףm. (Parel of קפף, cmp. נָקַף II Hif.) 1) enclosure, esp. an enclosed space outside of a settlement, for storage of wood Erub.II, 3 לא אמרו … לגנה ולק׳ they limited the area to two Sahs only for a garden and a storehouse. Ib. 5 הגינה והק׳ שהןוכ׳ a garden or a ḳarpif of seventy (cubits) and a fraction by seventy and a fraction, surrounded by a fence ten handbreadths high Bets.IV, 2 מביאין … ומן הק׳וכ׳ you may bring in (on the Holy Day for immediate use) wood from the field, taking from what is piled up, and from the k. even from what lies around scattered; איזהו ק׳ כלוכ׳ what is understood by k.? An enclosed space near the town. B. Bath.24b ק׳ … שהיקף לדירה a ḳ … which has been enclosed for living purposes; a. fr. 2) an area (of seventy square cubits) outside of a town, added to the city limits for the purposes of Sabbath distances Erub.V, 2 נותנין ק׳ לעיר for measuring Sabbath limits we allow a ḳ. to each town; וחכמים … ק׳ אלא ביןוכ׳ but the scholars say, a ḳ. as an extension to city limits is allowed only in the case of two neighboring towns; אם יש לזו … עושה ק׳ לשתיהן להיותן כאחת (Y. ed. קִרְפּוּף) if there is a space of seventy cubits for one and an equal space for the other, this forms a ḳ. for both, so that they may be considered as one town. Ib. 57a מאי ק׳ תורת ק׳ by ḳ. the scholars mean the application of the law of ḳ. (as an extension to the town); a. fr.Pl. קַרְפִּיפוֹת. Ib. IX, 1 אחד גגות … ק׳ רשותוכ׳ joint roofs, courts, and enclosures are each considered as one area (for Sabbath movements). Ib. 89a; a. fr.

קַרְפִּיף, קַרְפִּףm. (Parel of קפף, cmp. נָקַף II Hif.) 1) enclosure, esp. an enclosed space outside of a settlement, for storage of wood Erub.II, 3 לא אמרו … לגנה ולק׳ they limited the area to two Sahs only for a garden and a storehouse. Ib. 5 הגינה והק׳ שהןוכ׳ a garden or a ḳarpif of seventy (cubits) and a fraction by seventy and a fraction, surrounded by a fence ten handbreadths high Bets.IV, 2 מביאין … ומן הק׳וכ׳ you may bring in (on the Holy Day for immediate use) wood from the field, taking from what is piled up, and from the k. even from what lies around scattered; איזהו ק׳ כלוכ׳ what is understood by k.? An enclosed space near the town. B. Bath.24b ק׳ … שהיקף לדירה a ḳ … which has been enclosed for living purposes; a. fr. 2) an area (of seventy square cubits) outside of a town, added to the city limits for the purposes of Sabbath distances Erub.V, 2 נותנין ק׳ לעיר for measuring Sabbath limits we allow a ḳ. to each town; וחכמים … ק׳ אלא ביןוכ׳ but the scholars say, a ḳ. as an extension to city limits is allowed only in the case of two neighboring towns; אם יש לזו … עושה ק׳ לשתיהן להיותן כאחת (Y. ed. קִרְפּוּף) if there is a space of seventy cubits for one and an equal space for the other, this forms a ḳ. for both, so that they may be considered as one town. Ib. 57a מאי ק׳ תורת ק׳ by ḳ. the scholars mean the application of the law of ḳ. (as an extension to the town); a. fr.Pl. קַרְפִּיפוֹת. Ib. IX, 1 אחד גגות … ק׳ רשותוכ׳ joint roofs, courts, and enclosures are each considered as one area (for Sabbath movements). Ib. 89a; a. fr.

תְּחוּם, תְּחוּמָאch. sam(תחום Sabbath limits). Targ. Josh. 18:20. Targ. Num. 34:3. Targ. Ex. 10:14; a. fr.Y.Ber.V, 9a נפיק ליה לבר מת׳ דשבתאוכ׳ went beyond the Sabbath limit, and did not know it; a. fr.B. Kam.20a לא הוית גבן באורתא בת׳ (our w. omitted in Ms. R., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90) thou wast not with us last night within a Sabbath limit; (oth. opin. at the place assigned for scholars meetings, the school house).Pl. תְּחוּמִין, תְּחוּמַיָּא. Targ. Is. 28:25. Targ. Ps. 104:25. Targ. Num. 34:2, sq.; a. fr.Etub. 35b; 36a, v. preced.

תְּחוּם, תְּחוּמָאch. sam(תחום Sabbath limits). Targ. Josh. 18:20. Targ. Num. 34:3. Targ. Ex. 10:14; a. fr.Y.Ber.V, 9a נפיק ליה לבר מת׳ דשבתאוכ׳ went beyond the Sabbath limit, and did not know it; a. fr.B. Kam.20a לא הוית גבן באורתא בת׳ (our w. omitted in Ms. R., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90) thou wast not with us last night within a Sabbath limit; (oth. opin. at the place assigned for scholars meetings, the school house).Pl. תְּחוּמִין, תְּחוּמַיָּא. Targ. Is. 28:25. Targ. Ps. 104:25. Targ. Num. 34:2, sq.; a. fr.Etub. 35b; 36a, v. preced.

תְּחוּם, תְּחוּמָאch. sam(תחום Sabbath limits). Targ. Josh. 18:20. Targ. Num. 34:3. Targ. Ex. 10:14; a. fr.Y.Ber.V, 9a נפיק ליה לבר מת׳ דשבתאוכ׳ went beyond the Sabbath limit, and did not know it; a. fr.B. Kam.20a לא הוית גבן באורתא בת׳ (our w. omitted in Ms. R., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90) thou wast not with us last night within a Sabbath limit; (oth. opin. at the place assigned for scholars meetings, the school house).Pl. תְּחוּמִין, תְּחוּמַיָּא. Targ. Is. 28:25. Targ. Ps. 104:25. Targ. Num. 34:2, sq.; a. fr.Etub. 35b; 36a, v. preced.

תְּחוּם, תְּחוּמָאch. sam(תחום Sabbath limits). Targ. Josh. 18:20. Targ. Num. 34:3. Targ. Ex. 10:14; a. fr.Y.Ber.V, 9a נפיק ליה לבר מת׳ דשבתאוכ׳ went beyond the Sabbath limit, and did not know it; a. fr.B. Kam.20a לא הוית גבן באורתא בת׳ (our w. omitted in Ms. R., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90) thou wast not with us last night within a Sabbath limit; (oth. opin. at the place assigned for scholars meetings, the school house).Pl. תְּחוּמִין, תְּחוּמַיָּא. Targ. Is. 28:25. Targ. Ps. 104:25. Targ. Num. 34:2, sq.; a. fr.Etub. 35b; 36a, v. preced.

קִיבּוֹלֶתf. (קָבַל I) contract-labor, job. M. Kat. 11b היתה מלאכת אחרים בידואע״פ שבק׳וכ׳ if the mourner has work for others on hand, even if it be contract-labor, he must not work; (emended) בין ק׳ בין שאינה ק׳ whether it be contract-labor or not (whether he is paid for the job or by the day. Ib. 12a מקבלי ק׳ בתוךוכ׳ if gentiles take labor on contract within the Sabbath limits (of the Jewish employer), it is forbidden to let them work on the Sabbath. Ib.; Tosef. ib. II, 5 מקבלין ק׳ במועדוכ׳ you may contract during the festive week for work to be done after the festival. Y.Sabb.I, 4a bot. בין בשכיר בין בק׳ whether he is hired by the day or by the piece; Y.Ab. Zar. I, 39b bot.; Tosef. ib. I, 3 אם היה שְׂכִיר קַבָּלוּת (not שכר) if he was hired by the piece.

קִיבּוֹלֶתf. (קָבַל I) contract-labor, job. M. Kat. 11b היתה מלאכת אחרים בידואע״פ שבק׳וכ׳ if the mourner has work for others on hand, even if it be contract-labor, he must not work; (emended) בין ק׳ בין שאינה ק׳ whether it be contract-labor or not (whether he is paid for the job or by the day. Ib. 12a מקבלי ק׳ בתוךוכ׳ if gentiles take labor on contract within the Sabbath limits (of the Jewish employer), it is forbidden to let them work on the Sabbath. Ib.; Tosef. ib. II, 5 מקבלין ק׳ במועדוכ׳ you may contract during the festive week for work to be done after the festival. Y.Sabb.I, 4a bot. בין בשכיר בין בק׳ whether he is hired by the day or by the piece; Y.Ab. Zar. I, 39b bot.; Tosef. ib. I, 3 אם היה שְׂכִיר קַבָּלוּת (not שכר) if he was hired by the piece.

מִדָּה, מִידָּהf. (b. h.; preced.) 1) dimension, measure, proportion. Sabb.150a (play on מ̇ד̇ה̇ב̇ה, v. preced.) מ̇אד̇ מ̇אד̇ ה̇ב̇א בלא מ̇׳ bring much, very much, without measure. Peah VIII, 6 מ׳ זו this proportion. Gen. R. s. 64; Esth. R. introd. (ref. to מנדה, Ezra 4:13) זו מִדַּת הארץ that is the from the land as measured, i. e. the (Roman) land-tax. B. Bath.VII, 3 מ׳ בחבלוכ׳ I sell thee exact land-measure by the rope. Ib. 128a מִדַּת ארכו the length-measure of the cloak. Ib. מדת משקלותיו the measure of its (the gold-bars) weights, i. e. an estimate as to how many coins of a certain weight can be obtained from it. Ḥag.12a מדת יום ומ׳ לילה the combined length of day and night. Yeb.76b (ref. to 1 Sam. 17:38) מַדָּיו כמִדָּתוֹ his (Sauls) garments such as fitted his stature. Mikv. X, 5; Ḥull.73a עד מקום (ח)מ׳ as far as the designed length of the handle (excluding the portion which it is intended to cut off).Kidd.42b; B. Mets.56b, a. e. דבר שבמ׳ ושבמשקלוכ׳ objects which are sold by measure, by weight or by the piece. B. Bath.89b לעולם … מ׳ חסירהוכ׳ one must never keep in ones house too small or too large a measure (smaller or larger than the legal size); a. fr.Pl. מִדּוֹת, מִידּוֹת. Ib. 88b עונשן של מ׳ the divine punishment for fraudulent measures. Tosef.B. Mets. VI, 14 לא היו ממונין … אלא על המ׳ they (the agoranomoi in Jerusalem) were appointed not for the regulation of market prices but for the superintendence of the measures; B. Bath.89a, v. אֲנַרְדְּמִיס; a. fr.Men.18a למצות מִידּוֹתַי, v. מָצָח.Whence: Middoth (measurements of the Temple), name of a treatise of the Mishnah, of the order of Kodashim. 2) dealing; reward or punishment; dispensation.מ׳ כננד מ׳ retaliation, adequate punishment or reward. Sot.I, 7, v. preced. Ib. 9a לבמ׳ the verse is to intimate the God dispenses adequate punishments. Ib. 8b (ref. to ib. I, 7) אע״ג דמ׳ בטילח במ׳ לא בתיל although retribution (by the Jewish court) has ceased, the adequate divine punishment has not ceased. Lam. R. introd. (R. Alex. 2) (expl. יען וביען, Lev. 26:43) מ׳ בננד מ׳ punishment corresponding to deed. Ned.32a. Snh.90a כל מִידּוֹתָיו של חקב״ה מ׳ כנגד מ׳ all retributions of the Lord are in correspondence with mans doings. Ber.48b ‘whatever the Lord thy God has given thee דיינך בכל … בין מ׳ טובח ובין מִדַּת פורענות (not מדה) he is thy judge in whatever sentence he decrees upon thee, whether it be a good or an evil dispensation. Ib. IX, 5, v. מְאֹד. Sabb.97a. Ib. 151b לעולם … על מ׳ זו at all times let one pray to be spared this fate (poverty); a. fr.Pl. as ab. Snh.90a, v. supra. Yoma 87b המעביר על מִדּוֹתָיווכ׳ he who passes over his retaliations (who forbears to retaliate), his failings will be passed over (be forgiven); Meg.28a. Ib. לא עמדתי על מִידּוֹתַי I never insisted on retaliation; Kidd.71a ואינו מעמד על מדותיו (Rashi: מיעמיד); a. fr. 3) manner, ways, character, nature, condition. Ber.40a לא כמדת חקב״חוכ׳ the nature of divine (intellectual) affairs is not like the nature of human (material) affairs. Ib. 11b להזכיר מדת יוםוכ׳ to mention the nature of the day (light) at night. Tanḥ. Balak 3 מה מִדָּתוֹ what is the nature of his power. B. Mets.33a מ׳ ואינה מ׳ it is a (meritorious) way (of studying) and is not, i. e. you might to better; Y.Hor.III, 48c top מ׳ שאינה מ׳; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Ab. V, 10 ארבע מ׳ באדם there are four different dispositions of men (as to treating ones fellowman); ib. 11 ארבע מ׳ בדעות four characters (temperaments); ib. 12 ארבע מ׳ בתלמידים four natures of students (with regard to receptive and retentive faculties). Y.Snh.XI, 30a bot. כל שבע מ׳וכ׳ all the seven characteristic features of righteous men which the scholars have defined have been realized in Rabbi. Ned.20b בני תשע מ׳ children conceived under nine (abnormal mental) conditions. R. Hash. 17b, a. fr. שלש עשרה מ׳ the thirteen divine attributes (Ex. 34:6, sq.). Ned.32a, v. פָּרַז; a. fr. מדת הדין a) justice. Tosef.Yeb.IX, 3. a. e., v. לָקָה.Esp. the divine attribute of justice, opp. מ׳ הרחמים, v. דּין II.b) common sense, logical argument. Yoma 43b כך (היא) מ׳ הדין נותנת common sense dictates this; Shebu.14a. Y.Maas. Sh. II, 53c top תחומין עשו (כמ׳) למ׳ הדין they regulated the laws of Sabbath limits according to common sense (not by textual interpretation).c) decision in money matters, civil law (contrad. to ritual law). Y.Gitt.V, 46c bot. אף למ׳ הדין הכן the same principle holds good for civil law (collection of claims, v. כַּפְּרָנוּת); Y.Shebi.X, 39c bot. Ib. (last line) ולמידין מ׳ הדיןוכ׳ do we apply the rules of Prosbol (v. פְּרוֹזְבּוּל) to ordinary claims? Y.B. Kam.V, beg.4d לא הילכו במ׳ הדין אחר הרוב (strike out בממון) in civil law we are not guided by probabilities (v. דוֹב; cmp. Bab. ib. 27b). Y.Ber.II, 5a bot. ולמ׳ הד׳ but civil law (questions of possession). 4) principle, standard, consistency. Men.III, 4 במדתר׳וכ׳ following the principle of R. ; Pes.77b; Y. ib. VII, 34c top. Shek. IV, 6 אינח היא תמ׳ (comment. אינה מן המ׳) this is not consistent (with a previous rule). Ib. 7 השוה את מִדָּתוֹ (Y. ed. מִדּוֹתָיו) he makes his standards even (is consistent). Pes.I, 7 אינת חיא המ׳ this is not the right argument. Ib. 15b אמאי אינה היא המ׳ מ׳ ומ׳ היא why do you say, it is no argument? it is surely a correct argument. Y. Ḥag.III, 77d ‘Menahem went out means ממ׳ למ׳ יצא he went over from one principle to another (joined the opposition; Bab. ib. 16b יצא לתרבות רעה).Esp. מִדּוֹת rules of interpretation. Sifra introd., ch. 1, end הלל … שבע מ׳וכ׳ Hillel the Elder explained seven rules ; Ab. dR. N. ch. 37; Tosef.Snh.VII, 11. Sifra introd., beg. (R. Yishm. said) בשלש עשרה מ׳וכ׳ the Torah is interpreted by means of thirteen rules. (Appendix to treat. Brakhoth. ל״ב מ׳ שלר׳ יוסיוכ׳ the thirty two rules of R. José the Galilean.Lev. R. s. 3, beg. הלכות ומ׳ decisions and interpretations (by which the decisions were reached), v. מְכִילְתָּא.Gitt.67a מִידּוֹתַי תרומה מתרומות מִידּוֹתָיווכ׳ my rules of interpretation are the selection from selections of rules by R. Akiba.Ber.33b שעושח מדותיו של הקב״ח רחמיםוכ׳ he makes compassion the standard (or reason) of the divine laws, while they are decrees (the reasons for which it behooves not man to discuss); Y. ib. V, 9c כקורא תיגר על מ׳וכ׳ because it sounds as if he were finding fault with the ways of the Lord (as if the Lord were partial); כנותן קיצבח למ׳וכ׳ as though he were setting limits to the attributes of the Lord.

מִדָּה, מִידָּהf. (b. h.; preced.) 1) dimension, measure, proportion. Sabb.150a (play on מ̇ד̇ה̇ב̇ה, v. preced.) מ̇אד̇ מ̇אד̇ ה̇ב̇א בלא מ̇׳ bring much, very much, without measure. Peah VIII, 6 מ׳ זו this proportion. Gen. R. s. 64; Esth. R. introd. (ref. to מנדה, Ezra 4:13) זו מִדַּת הארץ that is the from the land as measured, i. e. the (Roman) land-tax. B. Bath.VII, 3 מ׳ בחבלוכ׳ I sell thee exact land-measure by the rope. Ib. 128a מִדַּת ארכו the length-measure of the cloak. Ib. מדת משקלותיו the measure of its (the gold-bars) weights, i. e. an estimate as to how many coins of a certain weight can be obtained from it. Ḥag.12a מדת יום ומ׳ לילה the combined length of day and night. Yeb.76b (ref. to 1 Sam. 17:38) מַדָּיו כמִדָּתוֹ his (Sauls) garments such as fitted his stature. Mikv. X, 5; Ḥull.73a עד מקום (ח)מ׳ as far as the designed length of the handle (excluding the portion which it is intended to cut off).Kidd.42b; B. Mets.56b, a. e. דבר שבמ׳ ושבמשקלוכ׳ objects which are sold by measure, by weight or by the piece. B. Bath.89b לעולם … מ׳ חסירהוכ׳ one must never keep in ones house too small or too large a measure (smaller or larger than the legal size); a. fr.Pl. מִדּוֹת, מִידּוֹת. Ib. 88b עונשן של מ׳ the divine punishment for fraudulent measures. Tosef.B. Mets. VI, 14 לא היו ממונין … אלא על המ׳ they (the agoranomoi in Jerusalem) were appointed not for the regulation of market prices but for the superintendence of the measures; B. Bath.89a, v. אֲנַרְדְּמִיס; a. fr.Men.18a למצות מִידּוֹתַי, v. מָצָח.Whence: Middoth (measurements of the Temple), name of a treatise of the Mishnah, of the order of Kodashim. 2) dealing; reward or punishment; dispensation.מ׳ כננד מ׳ retaliation, adequate punishment or reward. Sot.I, 7, v. preced. Ib. 9a לבמ׳ the verse is to intimate the God dispenses adequate punishments. Ib. 8b (ref. to ib. I, 7) אע״ג דמ׳ בטילח במ׳ לא בתיל although retribution (by the Jewish court) has ceased, the adequate divine punishment has not ceased. Lam. R. introd. (R. Alex. 2) (expl. יען וביען, Lev. 26:43) מ׳ בננד מ׳ punishment corresponding to deed. Ned.32a. Snh.90a כל מִידּוֹתָיו של חקב״ה מ׳ כנגד מ׳ all retributions of the Lord are in correspondence with mans doings. Ber.48b ‘whatever the Lord thy God has given thee דיינך בכל … בין מ׳ טובח ובין מִדַּת פורענות (not מדה) he is thy judge in whatever sentence he decrees upon thee, whether it be a good or an evil dispensation. Ib. IX, 5, v. מְאֹד. Sabb.97a. Ib. 151b לעולם … על מ׳ זו at all times let one pray to be spared this fate (poverty); a. fr.Pl. as ab. Snh.90a, v. supra. Yoma 87b המעביר על מִדּוֹתָיווכ׳ he who passes over his retaliations (who forbears to retaliate), his failings will be passed over (be forgiven); Meg.28a. Ib. לא עמדתי על מִידּוֹתַי I never insisted on retaliation; Kidd.71a ואינו מעמד על מדותיו (Rashi: מיעמיד); a. fr. 3) manner, ways, character, nature, condition. Ber.40a לא כמדת חקב״חוכ׳ the nature of divine (intellectual) affairs is not like the nature of human (material) affairs. Ib. 11b להזכיר מדת יוםוכ׳ to mention the nature of the day (light) at night. Tanḥ. Balak 3 מה מִדָּתוֹ what is the nature of his power. B. Mets.33a מ׳ ואינה מ׳ it is a (meritorious) way (of studying) and is not, i. e. you might to better; Y.Hor.III, 48c top מ׳ שאינה מ׳; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Ab. V, 10 ארבע מ׳ באדם there are four different dispositions of men (as to treating ones fellowman); ib. 11 ארבע מ׳ בדעות four characters (temperaments); ib. 12 ארבע מ׳ בתלמידים four natures of students (with regard to receptive and retentive faculties). Y.Snh.XI, 30a bot. כל שבע מ׳וכ׳ all the seven characteristic features of righteous men which the scholars have defined have been realized in Rabbi. Ned.20b בני תשע מ׳ children conceived under nine (abnormal mental) conditions. R. Hash. 17b, a. fr. שלש עשרה מ׳ the thirteen divine attributes (Ex. 34:6, sq.). Ned.32a, v. פָּרַז; a. fr. מדת הדין a) justice. Tosef.Yeb.IX, 3. a. e., v. לָקָה.Esp. the divine attribute of justice, opp. מ׳ הרחמים, v. דּין II.b) common sense, logical argument. Yoma 43b כך (היא) מ׳ הדין נותנת common sense dictates this; Shebu.14a. Y.Maas. Sh. II, 53c top תחומין עשו (כמ׳) למ׳ הדין they regulated the laws of Sabbath limits according to common sense (not by textual interpretation).c) decision in money matters, civil law (contrad. to ritual law). Y.Gitt.V, 46c bot. אף למ׳ הדין הכן the same principle holds good for civil law (collection of claims, v. כַּפְּרָנוּת); Y.Shebi.X, 39c bot. Ib. (last line) ולמידין מ׳ הדיןוכ׳ do we apply the rules of Prosbol (v. פְּרוֹזְבּוּל) to ordinary claims? Y.B. Kam.V, beg.4d לא הילכו במ׳ הדין אחר הרוב (strike out בממון) in civil law we are not guided by probabilities (v. דוֹב; cmp. Bab. ib. 27b). Y.Ber.II, 5a bot. ולמ׳ הד׳ but civil law (questions of possession). 4) principle, standard, consistency. Men.III, 4 במדתר׳וכ׳ following the principle of R. ; Pes.77b; Y. ib. VII, 34c top. Shek. IV, 6 אינח היא תמ׳ (comment. אינה מן המ׳) this is not consistent (with a previous rule). Ib. 7 השוה את מִדָּתוֹ (Y. ed. מִדּוֹתָיו) he makes his standards even (is consistent). Pes.I, 7 אינת חיא המ׳ this is not the right argument. Ib. 15b אמאי אינה היא המ׳ מ׳ ומ׳ היא why do you say, it is no argument? it is surely a correct argument. Y. Ḥag.III, 77d ‘Menahem went out means ממ׳ למ׳ יצא he went over from one principle to another (joined the opposition; Bab. ib. 16b יצא לתרבות רעה).Esp. מִדּוֹת rules of interpretation. Sifra introd., ch. 1, end הלל … שבע מ׳וכ׳ Hillel the Elder explained seven rules ; Ab. dR. N. ch. 37; Tosef.Snh.VII, 11. Sifra introd., beg. (R. Yishm. said) בשלש עשרה מ׳וכ׳ the Torah is interpreted by means of thirteen rules. (Appendix to treat. Brakhoth. ל״ב מ׳ שלר׳ יוסיוכ׳ the thirty two rules of R. José the Galilean.Lev. R. s. 3, beg. הלכות ומ׳ decisions and interpretations (by which the decisions were reached), v. מְכִילְתָּא.Gitt.67a מִידּוֹתַי תרומה מתרומות מִידּוֹתָיווכ׳ my rules of interpretation are the selection from selections of rules by R. Akiba.Ber.33b שעושח מדותיו של הקב״ח רחמיםוכ׳ he makes compassion the standard (or reason) of the divine laws, while they are decrees (the reasons for which it behooves not man to discuss); Y. ib. V, 9c כקורא תיגר על מ׳וכ׳ because it sounds as if he were finding fault with the ways of the Lord (as if the Lord were partial); כנותן קיצבח למ׳וכ׳ as though he were setting limits to the attributes of the Lord.

מִדָּה, מִידָּהf. (b. h.; preced.) 1) dimension, measure, proportion. Sabb.150a (play on מ̇ד̇ה̇ב̇ה, v. preced.) מ̇אד̇ מ̇אד̇ ה̇ב̇א בלא מ̇׳ bring much, very much, without measure. Peah VIII, 6 מ׳ זו this proportion. Gen. R. s. 64; Esth. R. introd. (ref. to מנדה, Ezra 4:13) זו מִדַּת הארץ that is the from the land as measured, i. e. the (Roman) land-tax. B. Bath.VII, 3 מ׳ בחבלוכ׳ I sell thee exact land-measure by the rope. Ib. 128a מִדַּת ארכו the length-measure of the cloak. Ib. מדת משקלותיו the measure of its (the gold-bars) weights, i. e. an estimate as to how many coins of a certain weight can be obtained from it. Ḥag.12a מדת יום ומ׳ לילה the combined length of day and night. Yeb.76b (ref. to 1 Sam. 17:38) מַדָּיו כמִדָּתוֹ his (Sauls) garments such as fitted his stature. Mikv. X, 5; Ḥull.73a עד מקום (ח)מ׳ as far as the designed length of the handle (excluding the portion which it is intended to cut off).Kidd.42b; B. Mets.56b, a. e. דבר שבמ׳ ושבמשקלוכ׳ objects which are sold by measure, by weight or by the piece. B. Bath.89b לעולם … מ׳ חסירהוכ׳ one must never keep in ones house too small or too large a measure (smaller or larger than the legal size); a. fr.Pl. מִדּוֹת, מִידּוֹת. Ib. 88b עונשן של מ׳ the divine punishment for fraudulent measures. Tosef.B. Mets. VI, 14 לא היו ממונין … אלא על המ׳ they (the agoranomoi in Jerusalem) were appointed not for the regulation of market prices but for the superintendence of the measures; B. Bath.89a, v. אֲנַרְדְּמִיס; a. fr.Men.18a למצות מִידּוֹתַי, v. מָצָח.Whence: Middoth (measurements of the Temple), name of a treatise of the Mishnah, of the order of Kodashim. 2) dealing; reward or punishment; dispensation.מ׳ כננד מ׳ retaliation, adequate punishment or reward. Sot.I, 7, v. preced. Ib. 9a לבמ׳ the verse is to intimate the God dispenses adequate punishments. Ib. 8b (ref. to ib. I, 7) אע״ג דמ׳ בטילח במ׳ לא בתיל although retribution (by the Jewish court) has ceased, the adequate divine punishment has not ceased. Lam. R. introd. (R. Alex. 2) (expl. יען וביען, Lev. 26:43) מ׳ בננד מ׳ punishment corresponding to deed. Ned.32a. Snh.90a כל מִידּוֹתָיו של חקב״ה מ׳ כנגד מ׳ all retributions of the Lord are in correspondence with mans doings. Ber.48b ‘whatever the Lord thy God has given thee דיינך בכל … בין מ׳ טובח ובין מִדַּת פורענות (not מדה) he is thy judge in whatever sentence he decrees upon thee, whether it be a good or an evil dispensation. Ib. IX, 5, v. מְאֹד. Sabb.97a. Ib. 151b לעולם … על מ׳ זו at all times let one pray to be spared this fate (poverty); a. fr.Pl. as ab. Snh.90a, v. supra. Yoma 87b המעביר על מִדּוֹתָיווכ׳ he who passes over his retaliations (who forbears to retaliate), his failings will be passed over (be forgiven); Meg.28a. Ib. לא עמדתי על מִידּוֹתַי I never insisted on retaliation; Kidd.71a ואינו מעמד על מדותיו (Rashi: מיעמיד); a. fr. 3) manner, ways, character, nature, condition. Ber.40a לא כמדת חקב״חוכ׳ the nature of divine (intellectual) affairs is not like the nature of human (material) affairs. Ib. 11b להזכיר מדת יוםוכ׳ to mention the nature of the day (light) at night. Tanḥ. Balak 3 מה מִדָּתוֹ what is the nature of his power. B. Mets.33a מ׳ ואינה מ׳ it is a (meritorious) way (of studying) and is not, i. e. you might to better; Y.Hor.III, 48c top מ׳ שאינה מ׳; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Ab. V, 10 ארבע מ׳ באדם there are four different dispositions of men (as to treating ones fellowman); ib. 11 ארבע מ׳ בדעות four characters (temperaments); ib. 12 ארבע מ׳ בתלמידים four natures of students (with regard to receptive and retentive faculties). Y.Snh.XI, 30a bot. כל שבע מ׳וכ׳ all the seven characteristic features of righteous men which the scholars have defined have been realized in Rabbi. Ned.20b בני תשע מ׳ children conceived under nine (abnormal mental) conditions. R. Hash. 17b, a. fr. שלש עשרה מ׳ the thirteen divine attributes (Ex. 34:6, sq.). Ned.32a, v. פָּרַז; a. fr. מדת הדין a) justice. Tosef.Yeb.IX, 3. a. e., v. לָקָה.Esp. the divine attribute of justice, opp. מ׳ הרחמים, v. דּין II.b) common sense, logical argument. Yoma 43b כך (היא) מ׳ הדין נותנת common sense dictates this; Shebu.14a. Y.Maas. Sh. II, 53c top תחומין עשו (כמ׳) למ׳ הדין they regulated the laws of Sabbath limits according to common sense (not by textual interpretation).c) decision in money matters, civil law (contrad. to ritual law). Y.Gitt.V, 46c bot. אף למ׳ הדין הכן the same principle holds good for civil law (collection of claims, v. כַּפְּרָנוּת); Y.Shebi.X, 39c bot. Ib. (last line) ולמידין מ׳ הדיןוכ׳ do we apply the rules of Prosbol (v. פְּרוֹזְבּוּל) to ordinary claims? Y.B. Kam.V, beg.4d לא הילכו במ׳ הדין אחר הרוב (strike out בממון) in civil law we are not guided by probabilities (v. דוֹב; cmp. Bab. ib. 27b). Y.Ber.II, 5a bot. ולמ׳ הד׳ but civil law (questions of possession). 4) principle, standard, consistency. Men.III, 4 במדתר׳וכ׳ following the principle of R. ; Pes.77b; Y. ib. VII, 34c top. Shek. IV, 6 אינח היא תמ׳ (comment. אינה מן המ׳) this is not consistent (with a previous rule). Ib. 7 השוה את מִדָּתוֹ (Y. ed. מִדּוֹתָיו) he makes his standards even (is consistent). Pes.I, 7 אינת חיא המ׳ this is not the right argument. Ib. 15b אמאי אינה היא המ׳ מ׳ ומ׳ היא why do you say, it is no argument? it is surely a correct argument. Y. Ḥag.III, 77d ‘Menahem went out means ממ׳ למ׳ יצא he went over from one principle to another (joined the opposition; Bab. ib. 16b יצא לתרבות רעה).Esp. מִדּוֹת rules of interpretation. Sifra introd., ch. 1, end הלל … שבע מ׳וכ׳ Hillel the Elder explained seven rules ; Ab. dR. N. ch. 37; Tosef.Snh.VII, 11. Sifra introd., beg. (R. Yishm. said) בשלש עשרה מ׳וכ׳ the Torah is interpreted by means of thirteen rules. (Appendix to treat. Brakhoth. ל״ב מ׳ שלר׳ יוסיוכ׳ the thirty two rules of R. José the Galilean.Lev. R. s. 3, beg. הלכות ומ׳ decisions and interpretations (by which the decisions were reached), v. מְכִילְתָּא.Gitt.67a מִידּוֹתַי תרומה מתרומות מִידּוֹתָיווכ׳ my rules of interpretation are the selection from selections of rules by R. Akiba.Ber.33b שעושח מדותיו של הקב״ח רחמיםוכ׳ he makes compassion the standard (or reason) of the divine laws, while they are decrees (the reasons for which it behooves not man to discuss); Y. ib. V, 9c כקורא תיגר על מ׳וכ׳ because it sounds as if he were finding fault with the ways of the Lord (as if the Lord were partial); כנותן קיצבח למ׳וכ׳ as though he were setting limits to the attributes of the Lord.