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The Jerusalem TalmudJerusalem Talmud Sheviit 9.2

The Jerusalem Talmud

Jerusalem Talmud Sheviit 9.2

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

MISHNAH: There are three regions for removals, Judea, Transjordan, and Galilee. Each of them has three subregions: Upper Galilee, Lower Galilee, and the Valley. From Kefar Ḥananiah upwards, everywhere no sycamores can grow, is Upper Galilee. From Kefar Ḥananiah downwards, everwhere sycamores do grow, is Lower Galilee. And the district of Tiberias and the Valley. In Jehudah the hills, the lowland, and the Southland. The lowlands of Lydda are like the Southern lowlands, its hills are like King’s Mountain. From Bet Ḥoron to the Sea is one domain. Why did they mention three regions? That in each one may eat until the last produce has vanished. Rebbi Simeon says, they mentioned three regions only for Judea; all other regions follow King’s Mountain. All regions are one for olives and dates.

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HALAKHAH: (Lev. 25:7): “For your domesticated animals and the wildlife in your land, etc.” Any time a wild animal finds food on the field, your domesticated animal can eat from the house. If it is finished for wildlife on the field, it is finished for the domesticated animal from the house.

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Rebbi Ḥama bar Uqba in the name of Rebbi Yose bar Ḥanina: They were of the opinion that mountain wildlife does not develop in the valley, nor does valley wildlife develop on the mountains. Diocletian oppressed the people of Paneias; they told him: we are leaving. A Sophist told him, they will not go, and if they go they will return. If you want to check, bring deer and send them to a distant land; in the end they will return to their places. He did so, brought deer, covered their antlers with silver, and sent them to Africa. At the end of thirteen years they returned to their places.

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It was stated: “Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel says, a sign for mountains are ash trees, for valleys dates, for brooks reeds, for the lowland sycamores. Even if it is no proof, there is a sign (1K. 10:27, 2Chr. 1:19, 9:27)): ‘Cedars he [Solomon] gave as many as sycamores in the lowland.’ ” Some people want to say it was said as a legal term, others say it refers to the calf whose neck is to be broken.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

“ What is the Valley in Galilee? For example, the valley of Genezareth and its companions,” and all similar ones. What is the Mountain in Judea? King’s Mountain. Its Lowlands are the Southern lowlands. Its Valley from En Gedi to Jericho. What is the Mountain in Transjordan? It was stated: “Rebbi Simeon ben Eleazar said, for example Mount Machaerus and Gadara and all similar ones. Its Lowlands, (Jos. 13:17) ‘Ḥesbon and all its towns in the plain, Dibon, Bamot Ba‘al, and Ba‘al Me‘on’ and all similar ones. Its Valley (Jos. 13:27) ‘Bet Haran, Bet Nimra, Sukkot, and Ṣaphon, the remainder of the kingdom of Siḥon’ the Emorite king who ruled in Ḥesbon.” Bet Harim is Bet Ramata, Bet Nimra Bet Nimrin, Sukkot Tar‘ala, Ṣaphon Amato.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Is a depression in the mountains like the mountains, a hill in the lowlands like the lowlands? Since we stated: “Mountain and its mountain, Valley and its valley, Lowland and its lowlands,” that means that a depression in the mountains is like the mountains, a hill in the lowlands is like the lowlands. Rebbi Yose said, our Mishnah says so: “its hills are like King’s Mountain.”

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

“From Bet Ḥoron to the Sea is one domain.” Without regions? Rebbi Joḥanan said, still there is Mountain, Lowland, and Valley. From Bet Ḥoron to Emmaus it is Mountain, from Emmaus to Lydda Lowland, from Lydda to the Sea Valley. Then there should be four stated? They are adjacent.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

It was stated: “There are not three regions in Syria.”

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Come and see: Those in the valley of Judea cannot eat based on the mountains of Judea but in the valleys of Galilee they eat based on the mountains of Judea!

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

“All regions are one for olives and dates.” It was stated: “Also for carobs.” It was stated: “One eats dates until they disappear from Jericho, one eats olives until they disappear from Meron and Giscala.”

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The Jerusalem Talmud, edition, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); commentary notes omitted. · Source ↗

Hebrew/Aramaic text: The Jerusalem Talmud, edition by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015), via Sefaria (sefaria.org). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed.

The Jerusalem Talmud, edition, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); commentary notes omitted. · Source ↗

English translation: The Jerusalem Talmud, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015); commentary notes omitted, via Sefaria (sefaria.org). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed.

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