Today's Mishnah Yomi
Avodah Zarah 5:10 - 5:11
The Mishnah Yomi for Monday, May 12, 2025 is Avodah Zarah 5:10 - 5:11
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Avodah Zarah Perek 5 Mishnah 10
עבודה זרה פרק ה׳ משנה י׳
In the case of wine used for a libation that fell into a wine cistern, it is prohibited to derive benefit from all of the wine in the cistern, even if the volume of the wine used for a libation was tiny in comparison to the volume of the wine in the cistern. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: All of the wine in the cistern may be sold to a gentile, and the money paid for it is permitted except for the value of the wine used for a libation that is included in it.
יֵין נֶסֶךְ שֶׁנָּפַל לְבוֹר, כֻּלּוֹ אָסוּר בַּהֲנָאָה. רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר, יִמָּכֵר כֻּלּוֹ לְנָכְרִי, חוּץ מִדְּמֵי יֵין נֶסֶךְ שֶׁבּוֹ:
Bartenura
שנפל לבור. של יין:
כולו אסור בהנאה. שהיין שנתנסך לע״ז אוסר במינו בכל שהוא. אבל סתם יינם של נכרים שלא ידענו בו שנתנסך ודאי, אע״פ שאסור בהנאה אינו אוסר תערובתו בהנאה, אלא נמכר כולו לנכרי חוץ מדמי אותו סתם יינן. וכן הלכה:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Avodah Zarah Perek 5 Mishnah 11
עבודה זרה פרק ה׳ משנה י"א
In the case of a stone winepress that a gentile lined with pitch and then poured wine onto the pitch to neutralize its flavor, one may cleanse it and it is pure, i.e., wine pressed in it is permitted. And if the winepress is fashioned of wood, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi says: One may cleanse it, but the Rabbis say: One must peel off the pitch completely. And if the winepress is of earthenware, even if one peeled off the pitch, this press is forbidden.
גַּת שֶׁל אֶבֶן שֶׁזִּפְּתָהּ גּוֹי, מְנַגְּבָהּ וְהִיא טְהוֹרָה. וְשֶׁל עֵץ, רַבִּי אוֹמֵר, יְנַגֵּב. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, יִקְלֹף אֶת הַזֶּפֶת. וְשֶׁל חֶרֶס, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁקָּלַף אֶת הַזֶּפֶת, הֲרֵי זוֹ אֲסוּרָה:
Bartenura
שזפתה עובד כוכבים – it is the way to cast upon it a little bit of wine to remove [knots] of pitch.
מנגבה – with water and ashes [to remove wine from the coat of pitch].
ושל עץ – that requires a lot of pitch, and it absorbs a lot of wine.
רבי אומר ינגב – [it is scoured] with a stone. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi [Yehuda HaNasi].
ושל חרס – whether [the opinion of] Rabbi [Yehuda HaNasi], whether [the opinion of] the Rabbis, even though he has peeled/scraped off the pitch, it is prohibited, for earthenware without pitch absorbs wine.
שזפתה נכרי. אורחא למרמי בה חמרא פורתא, לעבורי קוטרא דזפתא:
מנגבה. במים ואפר:
ושל עץ. דבעיא זפת טובא ובלע חמרא טפי:
רבי אומר ינגב. כשל אבן. ואין הלכה כרבי:
ושל חרס. בין לרבי בין לרבנן. אע״פ שקלף הזפת אסור. דחרס בלא זפתא בלע ליה חמרא:
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שנפל לבור – [a cistern] of wine.
כולו אסור בהנאה – that the wine which was poured as a libation for idolatry prohibits in the same species in any [miniscule amount. But wine of gentiles in which it is not known if it was used for a libation to idolatry of non-Jews where they did not know about it that it had definitely been poured as definite libation, even though it is prohibited to derive benefit from it, its mixture does not prohibit deriving benefit from it, but rather, all of it should be sold to non-Jews, outside of the monies of that wine which is not known whether or not it had been poured as a libation to idolatry, and such is the Halakha.