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cress, purslane, eggs, and arugula. Apropos the arugula plant, the Talmud cites a verse: “And one of them went out into the fields to collect orot” (II Kings 4:39). It was taught in the name of R' Meir with regard to orot in this verse: This is the plant called arugula. R' Yoḥanan said: Why are the
Rav Giddel said that Rav said: A guest should neither eat eggs, because they lead to a seminal emission, nor sleep in a garment belonging to the homeowner, his host, because if he experiences a seminal emission and it gets on the garment, he will be diminished in the estimation of his host. Apropo
But wasn’t it taught in a baraita that R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov says: A man should not marry a woman in one state and go and marry another woman in a different state, lest a match be arranged between the child of this wife with the child of that wife who are unaware of their relationship. This would l
The Talmud raises a different problem with the practice of Rav and Rav Naḥman. But didn’t Rava say: With regard to one who proposed marriage to a woman and she agreed, she is required to sit 7 clean days, as perhaps due to the anticipatory desire she might not notice that she experienced menstrua
And if you wish, say instead that these rabbis were not actually proposing marriage; rather, they proposed so that they could be in seclusion with the women, without consummating the relationship. Since the women knew that the marriage would not be consummated, they did not experience anticipatory d