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and they would eat fallen fruit from beneath palm trees that shed fruit that had fallen on Shabbat; and they would designate the produce in the corner for the poor in a field of vegetables, which is exempt from this obligation even by rabbinic law. And the rabbis reprimanded the people of Jericho f
Talmud: Apropos the people of Jericho, who were reprimanded for some of their actions and not reprimanded for others, the Talmud cites a similar baraita. A baraita states: King Hezekiah performed 6 actions. With regard to 3 of them, the rabbis of his generation conceded to him; and with regard to 3
And with regard to 3 actions, the rabbis did not concede to him. He cut off the doors of the Sanctuary and sent them to the King of Assyria, and they did not concede to him because he thereby demeaned the Temple. He sealed the waters of the upper Gihon stream, diverting its water into the city by me
We learned in the Mishnah: They would graft palm trees the entire day of the 14th of Nisan. The Talmud asks: How did they perform this grafting? R' Yehuda said: They brought fresh myrtle, strong beer made from the fruit of the laurel tree, and barley flour that was cast into a vessel, and 40 days ha
We learned in the Mishnah that the residents of Jericho would bundle Shema. The Talmud asks: What does it mean that they bundled Shema? How did they do so? R' Yehuda said that they recited: “Hear Israel: YHWH is our God, YHWH is One” (Deuteronomy 6:4), and they would not pause between words. Rava s