a partition ten handbreadths high

מְחִיצָהII f. (חוּץ I or חָצַץ) 1) division. B. Bath.2b אימא מ׳ פלוגתא may I not say, mḥitsah (ib. I, 1) means a division of property?Answ. רצו לחצותוכ׳ then it ought to have read, ‘they agreed to divide. 2) partition, wall. Ib. 3a, v. גּוּדָּא; a. e.Esp. (in Sabbath law) a partition ten handbreadths high, to mark a space off as private ground ( רשות היחיד). Erub.VIII, 7 אמת …אא״כ עשו להוכ׳ if a canal runs through a (private) court, you must not draw water out of it on the Sabbath, unless you made at its entrance and its exit a partition ; כותל … תדון משום מ׳ the wall over the channel may serve as a legal partition. Ib. 8. Sabb.101a, a. fr. מ׳ תלויה an overhanging mḥitsah (not connected with the ground). Erub.5a קורה משום מ׳ the beam (across an alley) serves as a legal fiction for a m. (as if its broadside were prolonged so as to form a partition), v. נְגַד; a. v. fr. 3) divided off space, compartment; (for sacred law) camp, precinct, cmp. מַחֲנֶה. Num. R. s. 4 מְחִיצַת הכהנים the camp of the priestly division. Macc.20a, a. e. מ׳ לאכול the limit (the area of Jerusalem) for consuming (the second tithes); מ׳ לקלוט the limit for protecting it (as having once entered the sacred precinct). Lev. R. s. 26 עמי במְחִיצָתִי ‘with me (1 Sam. 28:19) in my division (in heaven). Ib. אין לי רשות ליכנס למְחִיצָתְךָ I am not permitted to enter thy compartment. Num. R. s. 20 מְחִיצָתָן their compartment.Gen. R. s. 98 (play on חצים, Gen. 49:23) בעלי מְחִיצָתוֹ his camp fellows (brothers); a. fr.Pl. מְחִיצוֹת. Erub.89a במ׳ הניכרות when the partitions (between one house and the other) are distinguishable on the roof. Num. R. s. 7 נתנו חכמים מ׳ the scholars fixed camps (for sacred law); Sifré Num. 1 מנו חכמים למ׳ (v. Kel. I, 9); a. fr.מְחִיצִין laws concerning partitions for Sabbath purposes, v. supra. Erub.4a; Succ.5b.

מְחִיצָהII f. (חוּץ I or חָצַץ) 1) division. B. Bath.2b אימא מ׳ פלוגתא may I not say, mḥitsah (ib. I, 1) means a division of property?Answ. רצו לחצותוכ׳ then it ought to have read, ‘they agreed to divide. 2) partition, wall. Ib. 3a, v. גּוּדָּא; a. e.Esp. (in Sabbath law) a partition ten handbreadths high, to mark a space off as private ground ( רשות היחיד). Erub.VIII, 7 אמת …אא״כ עשו להוכ׳ if a canal runs through a (private) court, you must not draw water out of it on the Sabbath, unless you made at its entrance and its exit a partition ; כותל … תדון משום מ׳ the wall over the channel may serve as a legal partition. Ib. 8. Sabb.101a, a. fr. מ׳ תלויה an overhanging mḥitsah (not connected with the ground). Erub.5a קורה משום מ׳ the beam (across an alley) serves as a legal fiction for a m. (as if its broadside were prolonged so as to form a partition), v. נְגַד; a. v. fr. 3) divided off space, compartment; (for sacred law) camp, precinct, cmp. מַחֲנֶה. Num. R. s. 4 מְחִיצַת הכהנים the camp of the priestly division. Macc.20a, a. e. מ׳ לאכול the limit (the area of Jerusalem) for consuming (the second tithes); מ׳ לקלוט the limit for protecting it (as having once entered the sacred precinct). Lev. R. s. 26 עמי במְחִיצָתִי ‘with me (1 Sam. 28:19) in my division (in heaven). Ib. אין לי רשות ליכנס למְחִיצָתְךָ I am not permitted to enter thy compartment. Num. R. s. 20 מְחִיצָתָן their compartment.Gen. R. s. 98 (play on חצים, Gen. 49:23) בעלי מְחִיצָתוֹ his camp fellows (brothers); a. fr.Pl. מְחִיצוֹת. Erub.89a במ׳ הניכרות when the partitions (between one house and the other) are distinguishable on the roof. Num. R. s. 7 נתנו חכמים מ׳ the scholars fixed camps (for sacred law); Sifré Num. 1 מנו חכמים למ׳ (v. Kel. I, 9); a. fr.מְחִיצִין laws concerning partitions for Sabbath purposes, v. supra. Erub.4a; Succ.5b.

פַּסII m. (b. h.; פָּסַס) 1) strip, stripe.Pl. פַּסִּים, פַּסִּין. Gen. R. s. 84 (ref. to Gen. 37:3 sq., a. Ps. 66:5 sq.; v. עֲלִילָה) why ‘did they hate him? That (in the course of events it should come about that) שיקרע הים לפניהם פ׳ פ׳ the sea be rent before them in strips (ed. Wil. פ̇ס̇י̇ם̇ פס ים passim alludes to ‘strip of the sea).Esp. (cmp. פֶּרֶק) פס יד, palm, the hand from the wrist to the tip of the finger; פס רגל the foot to the ankle, interch. with פִּסַּת, פִּיסַּת (constr. of פִּסָּה). Ib. (expl. פסים, Gen. l. c.) שהיתה מגעת עד פס ידו the coat reached with its sleeves to his wrist; שהיתה … בפס ידו it was very fine and light, and could be (compressed and) hidden in his hand (cmp. מַלְמֵלָה). Meg.IV, 8 (24b) נתנה … על פס ידווכ׳ if he placed the Tfillin on his forehead or on his palm. Yoma 87a (play on ה̇ת̇ר̇פ̇ס̇, Prov. 6:3) (read:) אם ממון יש לו בידך ה̇ת̇ר לו פ̇ס̇ת ידוכ׳ if thou owest him (whom thou hast wronged) money, untie thy hand to him (pay him), if not (if thou hast otherwise wronged him), get several friends around him (to ask his pardon in their presence); B. Mets. 115a; B. Bath. 173b; Yalk. Prov. 938. Gen. R. s. 78 (play on מ̇ת̇ר̇פ̇ס בר̇צ̇י, Ps. 68:31) מ̇ת̇יר̇ את הפ̇ס̇ ומ̇ת̇ר̇צ̇ה בכסף he (Edom-Rome) opens his hand (for bribery), and is appeased with silver; Ex. R. s. 35 מתרת את הפסוכ׳ she (Rome) opens ; Yalk. Ps. 800 שפושטין פסת יד … ואין עושין ר̇צ̇וןוכ׳ they stretch forth their hand to accept silver, and then do not what the givers desire; Pes.118b שפושטין פסת ידוכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. שפושטין יד). Yoma 47a על פ׳ ידו up to his wrist, v. חָפָה; Sifra Vayikra, Ndab., ch. X, Par. 9 חופה את פס ידווכ׳ he bends his hand (grabbing) in the pan Ohol. I, 8 שלשים בפס הרגל thirty joints in the foot. Yalk. Sam. 143 חלילה … פ׳ יד ופ׳ רגל ועקב מגולין never were their wrists or their feet or their heels seen uncovered; Midr. Sam. ch. XXV (corr. acc.); a. fr. 2) partition, board, barrier. Erub.5a אם יש שם פם ארבעה if a bar of four handbreadths is left or placed above the breach. Ib. 10b עושה פם גבוה עשרהוכ׳ he cuts a board ten handbreadths high and four cubits long ; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Ib. II, 1 עושין פ׳ לביראותוכ׳ you must place partitions around watering stations in the shape of four cornerpieces, v. דְּיֹומַד Ib. 11a פַּסֵּי ביראות the partitions of watering stations; a. fr.Maasr. I, 7, v. פַּץ. 3) Pl. (v. פִּיסִּים) tax; פַּסֵּי העיר town tax (used for maintaining the safety of the town). Tosef.Peah IV, 9 לפ׳ העיר לשניםוכ׳ ed. Zuck. (ed. לעניי, corr. acc.) in order to be assessed for the town tax one must have been a resident for twelve months; B. Bath.8a; Y.Peah VIII, 21a bot. לפסין ולצדקות for the town tax and for the charities, expl. for the salaries of public school teachers; Y.B. Bath.I, beg.12d לפסים ולזימיות for town tax and town fines.

פַּסII m. (b. h.; פָּסַס) 1) strip, stripe.Pl. פַּסִּים, פַּסִּין. Gen. R. s. 84 (ref. to Gen. 37:3 sq., a. Ps. 66:5 sq.; v. עֲלִילָה) why ‘did they hate him? That (in the course of events it should come about that) שיקרע הים לפניהם פ׳ פ׳ the sea be rent before them in strips (ed. Wil. פ̇ס̇י̇ם̇ פס ים passim alludes to ‘strip of the sea).Esp. (cmp. פֶּרֶק) פס יד, palm, the hand from the wrist to the tip of the finger; פס רגל the foot to the ankle, interch. with פִּסַּת, פִּיסַּת (constr. of פִּסָּה). Ib. (expl. פסים, Gen. l. c.) שהיתה מגעת עד פס ידו the coat reached with its sleeves to his wrist; שהיתה … בפס ידו it was very fine and light, and could be (compressed and) hidden in his hand (cmp. מַלְמֵלָה). Meg.IV, 8 (24b) נתנה … על פס ידווכ׳ if he placed the Tfillin on his forehead or on his palm. Yoma 87a (play on ה̇ת̇ר̇פ̇ס̇, Prov. 6:3) (read:) אם ממון יש לו בידך ה̇ת̇ר לו פ̇ס̇ת ידוכ׳ if thou owest him (whom thou hast wronged) money, untie thy hand to him (pay him), if not (if thou hast otherwise wronged him), get several friends around him (to ask his pardon in their presence); B. Mets. 115a; B. Bath. 173b; Yalk. Prov. 938. Gen. R. s. 78 (play on מ̇ת̇ר̇פ̇ס בר̇צ̇י, Ps. 68:31) מ̇ת̇יר̇ את הפ̇ס̇ ומ̇ת̇ר̇צ̇ה בכסף he (Edom-Rome) opens his hand (for bribery), and is appeased with silver; Ex. R. s. 35 מתרת את הפסוכ׳ she (Rome) opens ; Yalk. Ps. 800 שפושטין פסת יד … ואין עושין ר̇צ̇וןוכ׳ they stretch forth their hand to accept silver, and then do not what the givers desire; Pes.118b שפושטין פסת ידוכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. שפושטין יד). Yoma 47a על פ׳ ידו up to his wrist, v. חָפָה; Sifra Vayikra, Ndab., ch. X, Par. 9 חופה את פס ידווכ׳ he bends his hand (grabbing) in the pan Ohol. I, 8 שלשים בפס הרגל thirty joints in the foot. Yalk. Sam. 143 חלילה … פ׳ יד ופ׳ רגל ועקב מגולין never were their wrists or their feet or their heels seen uncovered; Midr. Sam. ch. XXV (corr. acc.); a. fr. 2) partition, board, barrier. Erub.5a אם יש שם פם ארבעה if a bar of four handbreadths is left or placed above the breach. Ib. 10b עושה פם גבוה עשרהוכ׳ he cuts a board ten handbreadths high and four cubits long ; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Ib. II, 1 עושין פ׳ לביראותוכ׳ you must place partitions around watering stations in the shape of four cornerpieces, v. דְּיֹומַד Ib. 11a פַּסֵּי ביראות the partitions of watering stations; a. fr.Maasr. I, 7, v. פַּץ. 3) Pl. (v. פִּיסִּים) tax; פַּסֵּי העיר town tax (used for maintaining the safety of the town). Tosef.Peah IV, 9 לפ׳ העיר לשניםוכ׳ ed. Zuck. (ed. לעניי, corr. acc.) in order to be assessed for the town tax one must have been a resident for twelve months; B. Bath.8a; Y.Peah VIII, 21a bot. לפסין ולצדקות for the town tax and for the charities, expl. for the salaries of public school teachers; Y.B. Bath.I, beg.12d לפסים ולזימיות for town tax and town fines.