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The Jerusalem Talmud

Jerusalem Talmud Sukkah 5.6

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

MISHNAH: There are no less than 21 fanfares in the Temple and one does not exceed 48. Every day there were 21 fanfares, three at the opening of the gates, nine at the daily morning sacrifice, nine for the daily evening sacrifice, and for musaf sacrifices they added another nine. On Friday afternoon one adds another six, three to make people leave work and three to distinguish between holy and profane. Friday afternoon during Tabernacles there were 48: three at the opening of the gates, three at the upper gate, three at the lower gate, three at the drawing of water, three on the altar, nine at the daily morning sacrifice, and nine for the daily evening sacrifice, nine for musaf sacrifices, three to make people leave work, and three to distinguish between holy and profane.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

HALAKHAH: It was stated: No less than seven and no more than sixteen. This Tanna considers blowing straight, modulated, and straight as one unit; the other Tanna considers each single one of them as a unit. You find to say, three for each tribe; Rebbi Jehudah says, three for each standard. But it was stated, and nine at the tenth step. That is another one. He who has “three on top of the altar” does not have “at the tenth step;” he who has “at the tenth step” does not have “three on top of the altar”. Rebbi Ze`ira said, this implies that they only blew the trumpet at the water libation. If you are saying, for the drawings, one should state, three for drawing water today, and three for drawing water for tomorrow. Are these it? Are there not others, nine for musaf on the Sabbath, nine for the musaf on a New Moon, and nine for the musaf of the New Year’s day holiday? But it must follow him who said, they shall blow, in the course of the musaf sacrifices. The rabbis of Caesarea in the name of Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa: Even following him who said they shall blow, in the course of the musaf sacrifices, they were adding modulated sounds, they were not adding straight tones.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said, harp and lute are the same, extra strings make the difference between one and the other. Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said, why is it called נֶבֶל? Because it whitens many kinds of musical instruments. Rebbi Ḥuna in the name of Rav Joseph: By untanned leather and an abundance of strings it whitens many kinds of musical instruments. Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish says, עוּגָב is a water organ. Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel stated, there was no water organ in Jerusalem because its sound overhangs the melody.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

The fife of the Temple was from Moses and was made from reed. It broke and was repaired but its sound was not as sweet as originally. They undid and removed, and it returned to its prior state. The cymbal of the Temple was from Moses and was made from brass. It broke and was repaired but its sound was not clangorous as originally. They undid and removed, and it returned to its prior state. The mortar of the Temple was from Moses and was made from brass. It broke and was repaired but it did not compound as originally. They undid and removed, and and it returned to its prior state. These are two implements which broke in the first Temple and could not be mended. About these it says, polished brass; scrubbed brass. And two brass vessels, beautiful gold colored, valued like gold. Two Armoraim. One said, one of them valued like two of gold. But the other said, two [of them] like two of gold.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

It was stated: Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel says, the Siloam was giving water like an as. They said, let us enlarge it to increase its flow. They enlarged it and its flow was diminished. They fenced it in again and it returned to its prior state.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

The organ. Rav and Samuel. One said, it had ten holes and each one produced a hundred different sounds. But the other said, it had a hundred holes and each of them produced ten different sounds. According to both of them it produced a thousand different sounds.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Which of the musaf sacrifices of the Sabbath and of the New Moon has precedence? Rebbi Jeremiah wanted to say, between the musaf sacrifices of the Sabbath and of the New Month, the musaf sacrifices of the New Month have precedence. The strength of Rebbi Jeremiah is from the following: Between the song of the Sabbath and the song of the New Month, the song of the New Month has precedence. Rebbi Yose said, there is a difference there since Rebbi Ḥiyya said in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: To make a proclamation to make known that it is the start of a new month. How does one do it? One slaughters the musaf sacrifices of the Sabbath and says for them the song of the New Month. But here, between the musaf sacrifices of the Sabbath and of the New Month, the musaf sacrifices of the Sabbath have precedence, under the category: what is more frequent than another precedes the other.

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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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