Study Arakhin folio 8A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
By contrast, if he first gave 4 sela for payment of the first vow and then one sela for payment of the second vow, he has fulfilled his obligation with regard to the second vow, because all he had at that stage was one sela. But he has not fulfilled his obligation with regard to the first vow, becau
Rav Adda bar Ahava raises a dilemma: If one had in his possession 5 sela and he said: It is hereby incumbent upon me to donate my valuation twice, and consequently both obligations take effect simultaneously, what is the halakha? One can claim that since he vowed both vows simultaneously, they ta
§ The Mishnah teaches at its conclusion that there is no payment of valuations less than a sela; nor is there a payment greater than 50 sela. The Talmud asks: Why do I also need this statement, as this halakha was already stated at the beginning of the Mishnah?
The Talmud answers: This additional statement teaches us that there is no payment of valuations less than a sela, but, by inference, there is a payment of valuations more than a sela. Similarly, there is no payment of valuations for a sum greater than 50 sela, but there is a payment that is less t
Mishnah: If a woman experienced a discharge of blood and is unsure whether it was during her days of menstruation or during the 11 days that would render her a zava, the alleviation of her state of uncertainty does not occur in fewer than 7 clean days, nor in more than 17 clean days, depending on t