Tract Rosh Hashana ("New Year") of the New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud

by Michael Levi Rodkinson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 ...take three years to grow fully ripe, must not the second year after the sabbatic year be regarded as the sabbatic year for them? R. Jo'hanan was silent. MISHNA. At four periods in each year the world is judged; on Passover in respect to the growth of grain; on Pentecost in respect to the fruit of trees; on New Year's Day all human beings pass before God, as sheep before a shepherd; as it is said Ps. xxx. 9 "He who hath fashioned all their hearts, understandeth all their works;"f and on Tabernacles judgment is given in regard to water (rain). GEMARA. What grain (does the Divine judgment, affect on the Passover)? Does it mean the grain now standing in the field (about to be reaped)? When then were all the accidents that have happened to it until that time appointed (by Divine will)? It does not mean standing grain but that just sown. Shall we say that only one judgment is passed upon it? Does not a Boraitha If an accident or injury befall grain before Passover it was decreed on the last Passover, but if it happen (to the same grain) after Passover it was decreed on the most recent Passover; if an accident or misfortune befall a man before the Day of Atonement, it was decreed on the previous Day of Atonement, but if it happened after the Day of Atonement it was decreed on the most recent Day of Atonement? Answers Learn from this that it is judged twice (in one year). Therefore says When a man sees that the grain, which ripens slowly is thriving, he should as soon as possible sow such grain as ripens quickly, in order that before the time of the next judgment, it may already have begun to grow. Produces, in that stage in which the separation of levitical and priestly shares is required before one can partake of them, f Vide introd...

40 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was an American-Jewish publisher, known for being the first to translate the Babylonian Talmud to English.