Today's Mishnah Yomi
Eduyos 2:8 - 2:9
The Mishnah Yomi for Sunday, March 23, 2025 is Eduyos 2:8 - 2:9
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Eduyos Perek 2 Mishnah 8
עדיות פרק ב׳ משנה ח׳
Rabbi Akiba declared three things; about two they agreed with him, and about one they disagreed with him.About a lime-burner’s sandal, that it is liable to contract midras impurity; And about the remains of a [broken] oven, that they must be four handbreadths high [in order to retain impurity], whereas they used to say three and [when he said four] they agreed with him. And about one they disagreed with him About a stool, from which two of its covering-boards had been removed, the one beside the other, which Rabbi Akiba pronounces able to contract impurity, but the Sages declare unable to contract impurity.
שְׁלֹשָׁה דְבָרִים אָמַר רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא, עַל שְׁנַיִם הוֹדוּ לוֹ וְעַל אֶחָד לֹא הוֹדוּ לוֹ. עַל סַנְדָּל שֶׁל סַיָּדִים, שֶׁהוּא טָמֵא מִדְרָס. וְעַל שְׁיָרֵי תַנּוּר אַרְבָּעָה, שֶׁהָיוּ אוֹמְרִים שְׁלֹשָׁה. וְהוֹדוּ לוֹ. וְעַל אֶחָד לֹא הוֹדוּ לוֹ, עַל כִּסֵּא שֶׁנִּטְּלוּ שְׁנַיִם מֵחִפּוּיָיו זֶה בְּצַד זֶה, שֶׁרַבִּי עֲקִיבָא מְטַמֵּא וַחֲכָמִים מְטַהֲרִין:
Bartenura
סנדל של סיידין. מנעל של עץ שנועלין ברגליהם המתעסקים בסיד להגן על רגליהם שלא ישרפו בסיד. ואם נעל אותו הזב, טמא מדרס:
ועל שיירי תנור ארבעה. אם היה גדול הרבה ונטמא, ואחר כך נשבר, לא טהר עד שלא יהיה בשבריו גבוה ארבעה, ולעולם שבריו מקבלים טומאה כאילו היה שלם, עד שיהיה השבר פחות מגובה ארבעה. וסתם תנור שבמשנה עשוי כמין קדירה גדולה שאין לה שוליים ומחברין אותו בטיט על גבי קרקע ורצפת הקרקע היא תחתיתו של תנור:
שנים מחפוייו. מן הלוחות העשויות למושב:
שרבי עקיבא מטמא. דסבר אע״פ שאינו ראוי לישיבה הוא ראוי לקבל רמונים, וטמא משום כלי קבול:
וחכמים מטהרין. דסברי הואיל ועיקרו לישיבה עביד ולא לבית קיבול, כיון שנתבטל העיקר שבעבורו נעשה, נתבטל הטפל, ואינו מטמא אפילו משום כלי קיבול. והלכה כחכמים:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Eduyos Perek 2 Mishnah 9
עדיות פרק ב׳ משנה ט׳
He used to say: the father transmits to the son beauty, strength, wealth, wisdom and years. And the number of generations before Him, that shall be their appointed end: For it is said, “calling the generations from the beginning” (Isaiah 41:4) Although it is said, “And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years” (Genesis 15:13), it is also said, “And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again” (Genesis 15:16).
הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, הָאָב זוֹכֶה לַבֵּן, בַּנּוֹי, וּבַכֹּחַ, וּבָעֹשֶׁר, וּבַחָכְמָה, וּבַשָּׁנִים, וּבְמִסְפַּר הַדּוֹרוֹת לְפָנָיו, וְהוּא הַקֵּץ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ישעיה מא) קֹרֵא הַדֹּרוֹת מֵרֹאשׁ, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (בראשית טו), וַעֲבָדוּם וְעִנּוּ אֹתָם אַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה, וְנֶאֱמַר (שם), וְדוֹר רְבִיעִי יָשׁוּבוּ הֵנָּה:
Bartenura
האב זוכה לבן וכו' – since it is close that the nature of the son is to be similar to the nature of the father, and beauty, and strength and wisdom and years, a man endows [his son] with them from the beginning of his creation according to his nature, and wealth a person bequeaths to his son. And wisdom that we speak of here, is the straight ingenuity of mind/brightness of mind, which is in a person according to his nature. And years, length of days. And to me it appears that if a person endows them, he will have sons who are pleasant, strong, wise, rich and who live long lives.
ובמספר הדורות לפניו – Sometimes that the Holy One, blessed be He promises that his father will do good for his seed to the third generation or to the fourth generation, and the father endowed to that generation that this particular goodness will come to them.
הוא הקץ – that the Holy One, blessed be He, determined for this matter that it will be for a specific time and for a certain generation, such as (Genesis 15:14,16): “…and they shall be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years…and they shall return here in the fourth generation…,” that the number of generations which is the fourth generation will be end of the four hundred years.
האב זוכה לבן וכו׳ לפי שקרוב טבע הבן להיות דומה לטבע האב, והנוי והכח והחכמה והשנים אדם זוכה בהן מתחלת יצירתו כפי טבעו, והעושר אדם מורישו לבנו. וחכמה דאמרינן הכא, היא הסברא הישרה, והיא באדם כפי טבעו. והשנים, אריכות הימים. ולי נראה, שאם אדם זוכה הויין ליה בנים נאים בעלי כח בעלי חכמה עשירים ומאריכי ימים:
ובמספר הדורות לפניו. פעמים שהקב״ה מבטיח לאב לעשות טובה לזרעו לדור שלישי או לדור רביעי, והאב זכה לאותו הדור שתבוא להם אותה הטובה:
הוא הקץ. שקצב הקב״ה לאותו דבר שיהיה לזמן פלוני ולדור פלוני. כמו ועבדום וענו אותם ארבע מאות שנה, ודור רביעי ישובו הנה, הרי מספר הדורות שהוא דור רביעי הוא הקץ של ארבע מאות שנה:
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סנדל של סיידין – the wooden shoe that they wear on their feat when they are engaged with lime/plaster to protect their feet that they don’t burn in the lime, and if a person with a flux wore it, it would be impure through Levitical uncleanness arising from a someone with a flux’s immediate contact by treading [or leaning against].
ועל שיירי תנור ארבעה – if it was large enough and it became defiled and afterwards broke, he would not be pure until there would not be in its shards a height of four [handbreadths], for shards are susceptible to receiving defilement as if it was whole, until the shard would be less than the height of three [handbreadths]. But a mere oven that is in the Mishnah is made like a large pot which has no rim and when they fasten it with plaster on the ground and the floor of the ground is the bottom of the oven.
שנים מחיפוייו – from the boards that are made for sitting.
שרבי עקיבא מטמא – as he {i.e., Rabbi Akiva) holds that even though it is not appropriate for sitting, it is appropriate to receive pomegranates, and it is impure because it is a receptacle.
וחכמים מטהרין – as they hold because its essential purpose is that it was made for sitting and not as a receptacle, since the purpose for which it had been made was annulled. And it does not defile even because of being a receptacle. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.