Today's Mishnah Yomi
Avodah Zarah 2:1 - 2:2
The Mishnah Yomi for Wednesday, April 23, 2025 is Avodah Zarah 2:1 - 2:2
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Avodah Zarah Perek 2 Mishnah 1
עבודה זרה פרק ב׳ משנה א׳
One may not keep an animal in the inns [befundekaot] of gentiles because they are suspected of bestiality. Since even gentiles are prohibited from engaging in bestiality, a Jew who places his animal there is guilty of violating the prohibition: “You shall not put a stumbling block before the blind” (Leviticus 19:14). And a woman may not seclude herself with gentiles because they are suspected of engaging in forbidden sexual relations. And any person may not seclude himself with gentiles because they are suspected of bloodshed. A Jewish woman may not deliver the child of a gentile woman, because in doing so she is delivering a child who will engage in idol worship. But one may allow a gentile woman to deliver the child of a Jewish woman. Similarly, a Jewish woman may not nurse the child of a gentile woman, but one may allow a gentile woman to nurse the child of a Jewish woman while the gentile woman is on the Jewish woman’s property.
אֵין מַעֲמִידִין בְּהֵמָה בְּפֻנְדְּקָאוֹת שֶׁל גּוֹיִם, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁחֲשׁוּדִין עַל הָרְבִיעָה. וְלֹא תִתְיַחֵד אִשָּׁה עִמָּהֶן, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁחֲשׁוּדִין עַל הָעֲרָיוֹת. וְלֹא יִתְיַחֵד אָדָם עִמָּהֶן, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁחֲשׁוּדִין עַל שְׁפִיכַת דָּמִים. בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא תְיַלֵּד אֶת הַנָּכְרִית, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁמְּיַלֶּדֶת בֵּן לַעֲבוֹדָה זָרָה. אֲבָל נָכְרִית מְיַלֶּדֶת בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל. בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא תָנִיק בְּנָהּ שֶׁל נָכְרִית, אֲבָל נָכְרִית מְנִיקָה בְנָהּ שֶׁל יִשְׂרְאֵלִית בִּרְשׁוּתָהּ:
Bartenura
אין מעמידין בהמה בפונדקאות. העשויין להתאכסן שם עוברי דרכים לפי שהנכרים חשודים על הרביעה. אפילו נקבות אצל נקבות אסור, לפי שהעובדי כוכבים מצויים אצל נשי חביריהם ופעמים שאינו מוצאה ומרביע את הבהמה:
ולא תתיחד אשה עמהן. אפילו ביחוד שכיוצא בו אצל ישראל מותר, כגון שאשתו עמו, אצל נכרי אסור, דנכרי אין אשתו משמרתו:
לא תילד את הנכרית. מפני שמגדלת בן לעבודה זרה. ובשכר, מותרת, משום איבה:
אבל נכרית מילדת את בת ישראל. בזמן שאחרות עומדות על גבה. אבל בינה לבינה לא, שחשודה על שפיכות דמים שמא תהרגנו:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Avodah Zarah Perek 2 Mishnah 2
עבודה זרה פרק ב׳ משנה ב׳
The mishna discusses the issue of accepting certain professional services from a gentile. One may be treated by gentiles, provided that it is monetary treatment, but not personal treatment. And one may not have his hair cut by them anywhere, due to the danger that the gentile will kill him with the razor; this is the statement of Rabbi Meir. And the Rabbis say: In the public thoroughfare, it is permitted to have one’s hair cut by a gentile, but not when the Jew and gentile are alone together.
מִתְרַפְּאִין מֵהֶן רִפּוּי מָמוֹן, אֲבָל לֹא רִפּוּי נְפָשׁוֹת. וְאֵין מִסְתַּפְּרִין מֵהֶן בְּכָל מָקוֹם, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי מֵאִיר. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, בִּרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים מֻתָּר, אֲבָל לֹא בֵינוֹ לְבֵינוֹ:
Bartenura
רפוי ממון – his animal.
רפוי נפשות – his body; [but if he said] to him: a certain drug is fine for you, even if it is the healing of bodies, it is permissible to be healed by him.
אבל לא בינו לבינו – but if he looks into a mirror, it is permissible, for the idolater might say that since he is getting a haircut, this is an important person and he is afraid to kill him.
רפוי ממון. בהמתו:
רפוי נפשות. גופו. ואם אמר לו סם פלוני יפה לך, אפילו רפוי נפשות מותר להתרפאות ממנו:
אבל לא בינו לבינו. ואי רואה במראה, מותר. דמימר אמר הנכרי, הואיל ומסתפר הכי אדם חשוב הוא, ומתירא להורגו:
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אין מעמידין בהמה בפונדקאות – that are made to harbor passers through there because idolaters are suspect of carnal connection with beasts and even females with females are prohibited because the idolaters are found with the wives of their friends and sometimes they don’t find her and they copulate with the beasts.
ולא תתיחד אשה עמהן – even the privacy between a man and a woman and something similar with an Israelite is permissible, such as when his wife is with him, [but] with an idolater, it is prohibited, since the wife of an idolater does not protect him.
לא תילד את העובדת כוכבים – because she raises a son for idolatry but with payment, it is permitted, for the sake of preventing ill-will.
אבל עובדת כוכבים מילדת את בת ישראל – at the time when other women stand by her, but not between him and her, for they are suspected of murder, lest she kills him.