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for the betterment of the world, so as not to cause an increase in the theft of sacred Jewish ritual objects in order to sell them for large sums of money.
Talmud: Rav Budya said to Rav Ashi that one could infer the following from the Mishnah: It is for more than their actual monetary value that one may not purchase them; however, for their precise value, one may purchase them. Can one learn from the Mishnah that with regard to a Torah scroll that is
Rav Naḥman says: We have a tradition that a Torah scroll that was written by a heretic should be burned; a Torah scroll written by a non-Jew should be interred; a Torah scroll found in the possession of a heretic, and it is not clear who wrote it, should be interred. With regard to a Torah scrol
The Talmud asks: With regard to a Torah scroll that was written by a non-Jew, it is taught in one baraita: It should be burned, and it is taught in another baraita: It should be interred, and it is taught in another baraita: One may read from it. There is a three-fold contradiction concerning the h
The Talmud explains: This is not difficult: That which is taught in a baraita, that it should be burned, is the opinion of R' Eliezer, who says: The unspecified intentions of a non-Jew are for idol worship, and therefore everything he wrote is assumed to be written for the sake of idolatrous worshi