Study Keritot folio 2B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Talmud: The Talmud asks: Why do I need the Mishnah to state this tally of cases where one who performs the action is liable to receive karet? Why does it state a number? All 36 are listed in the Mishnah, and one could simply count them to discover how many there are. R' Yoḥanan said: By listing th
The Talmud asks: And furthermore, with regard to that which we learned in a Mishnah (Shabbat 73a): The primary categories of labor are 40-less-one; why do I need this tally of 40-less-one? The Talmud answers: By listing the tally the Mishnah is teaching that if one performed all of the prohibited l
The Talmud asks: And furthermore, with regard to that which we learned in a Mishnah (8b): There are 4 people who have not yet brought an atonement offering to complete their purification process and may not eat sacrificial meat until they bring the requisite offerings. The Mishnah then teaches: And
The Talmud answers: By listing the tally, the Mishnah serves to exclude the opinion of R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov, who says there are 5 such individuals. As it is taught in a baraita that R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov says: A convert is also one who has not yet brought an atonement offering and he may not part
The Talmud asks: And furthermore, with regard to that which we learned in that same Mishnah (8b): And there are 4 who bring an offering for the intentional transgression of a prohibition as they do for the unwitting transgression of a prohibition: One who has sex with a designated female slave (see