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on an earthenware shard? If it is permitted, we will write it and throw it into the depths, and they will subside. There was no one who said anything to him. David said: Anyone who knows what to say and does not say anything may he be strangled in his throat. Then Ahithophel raised an a fortiori a
He wrote the sacred name on an earthenware shard and cast it into the depths, and the waters in the depths subsided 16,000 cubits. When he saw that they subsided excessively, he said: The higher the waters in the aquifers, the moister and more fertile the soil of the world. He recited the 15 Songs o
§ The Mishnah continues: And two priests stood with two trumpets at the Upper Gate that descends from the Israelites’ courtyard to the Women’s Courtyard, and when those drawing the water reached the tenth stair they sounded the trumpets. R' Yirmeya raised a dilemma: Does the phrase reached the tent
The Mishnah describes: When they reached the gate through which one exits to the east, they turned from facing east to facing west toward the Holy of Holies, and said: Our ancestors who were in this place during the First Temple period did not conduct themselves appropriately and stood “with their b
Rather, to what purpose does the verse state: “Their backs toward the Sanctuary of YHWH”? It is an allusion to the fact that in addition to turning their backs on the Sanctuary of YHWH, they performed an additional evil. It teaches that they would expose themselves and defecate downward, a euphem