Study Bava Kamma folio 82B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
And Ezra came and added to the Torah’s minimal obligation. He instituted the requirement of combing the hair even when it is known that it is not knotted and contains no repulsive substance.
The Talmud discusses the next of Ezra’s ordinances: And that peddlers should circulate through all the towns. This Talmud explains that this is because peddlers supply women’s cosmetics, and therefore Ezra instituted this practice so that women should not become unattractive to their husbands.
The Talmud analyzes the last of the 10 ordinances: And he instituted the requirement of immersion for those who experienced a seminal emission. The Talmud asks: But this is required by Torah law, as it is written: “And if the flow of seed go out from a man, then he shall bathe all his flesh in wate
§ The Mishnah teaches that one may not raise chickens in Jerusalem. The Talmud cites a baraita that contains a list of other halakhot that are unique to Jerusalem. 10 matters were stated with regard to Jerusalem: A house situated in Jerusalem does not become irredeemable one year after its sale. Tho
The baraita continues its list: And a house in Jerusalem cannot become ritually impure with the impurity of leprous sores; and one may not build out projections or balconies [gezuztraot] from houses that are in it; and one may not establish garbage dumps in Jerusalem; and one may not build kilns in