Study Megillah folio 29A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
One interrupts his Torah study to carry out the dead for burial and to escort a bride to her wedding. They said about R' Yehuda, son of R' Elai, that he would interrupt his Torah study to carry out the dead for burial and to escort a bride to her wedding. The Talmud qualifies this ruling: In what ca
The Talmud asks: And how many people are considered sufficient? Rav Shmuel bar Inya said in the name of Rav: 12,000 men and another 6,000 men to blow horns as a sign of mourning. And some say a different version: 12,000 men, among whom are 6,000 men with horns. Ulla said: For example, enough to mak
Rav Sheshet said: As the Torah was given, so it should be taken away, i.e., the same honor that was provided when the Torah was given at Mount Sinai should be provided when the Torah is taken through the passing away of a Torah scholar. Just as the Torah was given in the presence of 600,000 men, so
§ It is taught in a baraita: R' Shimon ben Yoḥai says: Come and see how beloved the Jewish people are before God. As every place they were exiled, the Shekhina went with them. They were exiled to Egypt, and the Shekhina went with them, as it is stated: “Did I reveal myself to the house of your fath
The Talmud asks: Where in Babylonia does the Shekhina reside? Abaye said: In the ancient synagogue of Huzal and in the synagogue that was destroyed and rebuilt in Neharde’a. And do not say that the Shekhina resided here and there, i.e., in both places simultaneously. Rather, at times it resided her