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Please do not forward this link around yet! This is still in development and will be "released", God willing, on August 1, in time for the thirteenth cycle of Daf Yomi.

Disclaimers, Copyright, and Credits

Disclaimers

This is an early draft. I haven't proofread; there are plenty of typos and probably some more significant errors as well.

Most pages on this site are currently auto-translated. The autotranslations are intended as a starting point for my manual translations. At best, they are awkward stringing-togethers of words and phrases in the corpus database that can benefit from cleaning up. At worst, they are picking the wrong homograph. Auto-translations are indicated by italics.

I am not a rabbi or an expert. These are my translations, and in some cases I am certainly misunderstanding things.

The Talmud is a document of its time. While the Talmud is a foundational document of Judaism, it must be read in its historical context. There are passages that are xenophobic, sexist, and irreconcilable with modern science. Not everything in these pages represents contemporary Judaism.

Copyright

This translation is protected by copyright. I'm putting a lot of effort into this project. Please respect that by only copying with my permission.

I intend to provide free licenses for most uses. I plan to use a Creative Commons CC-NC-BY-SA license, which will allow you to re-use my translations as long as you don't charge money for them (NC), as long as you give me credit (BY), and as long as you make your derived work available under the same terms (SA). But I'm not ready to do that yet because this is still a very rough work-in-progress.

In the meantime, if you want to re-use this, please contact me. I am willing to discuss re-use on an ad hoc basis. Perhaps the one page you want to use is actually ready for re-use. Ask. I'll probably work out a way to say "yes."

Credits

I need to clean up this section. But for now, I'll note that I've made use of the Hebrew/Aramaic text of the Bavli at Mechon Mamre; Jastrow's dictionary; "The Practical Talmud Dictionary" by Yitzchak Frank. I've also used the big three translations of the Talmud --- Soncino (English), Artscroll (English), and Steinsaltz (Hebrew) --- and the Kehati (English) edition of the Mishna, to help me understand passages before translating them.

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דף קכא,א גמרא

One teaches ??? and one teaches ??? The one who teaches ??? It is because of ??? the priesthood The one who teaches ??? It is because of ??? the priesthood

One says an olive's volume and one says an egg's volume The one who said an olive's volume is ruling like the law regarding its being forbidden and the one who said an egg's volume like the law regarding its being tamei

דף קכא,א משנה

one who recites a blessing specifically, the blessing on the Passover offering he exempted himself from saying the blessing of the zevach-offering one who recites a blessing of zevach-offering he has not exempted himself from saying the blessing of the Paschal offering these are the words of Rabbi Yishmael Rabbi Akiva says: This does not exempt that and that does not exempt this.

דף קכא,א גמרא

??? to say according to the words of Rabbi Yishmael ??? are in the general category ??? and not ??? are in the general category ??? according to the words of Rabbi Akiva No. ??? are in the general category ??? and not ??? are in the general category ???

דף קכא,ב גמרא

Rabbi ??? They asked of him This is obvious! on redemption ??? who made us holy with His commandments and commanded us on redemption ??? he makes the blessing Blessed be who kept us alive, and sustained us, and brought us to this time a priest he makes the blessing or ??? he makes the blessing a priest he makes the blessing ??? benefit ??? or ??? he makes the blessing that he came does he act? a commandment It was not in his hands he came ??? of him. ??? And they said to him ??? he makes the blessing two ??? he makes the blessing two