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Gitin 56
GITIN 56 & 57 - Anonymously dedicated by an ardent supporter who wants the
Zechus of spreading Torah throughout the world.
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1) [line 6] EICHUL BEHU KURTZA BEI MALKA - I will speak slander about them
in the Caesar's palace
2) [line 10] NIV SEFASAYIM - upper lip
3) [line 11] DOKIN SHEBA'AYIN - lit. eye's web (O.F. teile), a thin film
(cataract?) that develops due to an eye-disease which is considered to be a
blemish, or, alternatively, a cut on the eyelids, that disqualifies an
animal from being brought as a Korban, as the Torah states in Vayikra 21:20.
4) [line 13] SAVUR L'MIKTELEI - considered killing him
5) [line 16] SHADAR ILAVAIHU L'NIRON KEISAR - he sent upon them Nero the
emperor
6) [line 16] SHADA GIRA - he shot an arrow
7) [line 18] PESOK LI PESUKEICH - relate to me the verse [that you have just
studied]
8) [line 20] ARAK, V'AZAL V'IGAYEIR - he ran away and went and converted to
Judaism
9) [line 21] ASPASYANUS KEISAR - Vespasian, the Roman Emperor, who led the
war against the Jews, which led to the destruction of the Beis ha'Mikdash,
before he became emperor
10) [line 22] ATIREI - wealthy people
11) [line 23] SH'NAKDAH LO CHAMAH - for whom the sun stood still
12) [line 24] TZITZASO NIGRERES AL GEVEI KESASOS - his Tzitzis dragged upon
silk sheets
13a) [line 26] CHAMRA - wine
b) [line 26] MILCHA - salt
c) [line 26] MISHCHA - oil
14) [line 27] TZIVEI - kindling wood
15) [line 27] AKLIDEI - keys
16) [line 28] A'KALBA - a storehouse (of wheat)
17) [line 28] BA'I SHITIN - requires sixty [storehouses of wood]
18) [line 29] BARYONEI - boors, empty ones (the "Zealots" who insisted on
fighting with the Romans and not negotiating)
19) [line 31] KERAVA - war
20) [line 31] KALANHU L'HANAHU AMBEREI - they burned these storehouses
21) [line 32] KAFNA - famine
22) [line 33] SEMIDA - fine flour
23) [line 34] CHIVARTA - (lit. "white" bread) bread made from flour that is
well-sifted
24) [line 35] GUSHKERA - coarse bread
25) [line 36] KIMCHA D'SA'AREI - barley flour
26) [line 37] SHELIFA MESANA - she was not wearing shoes
27) [line 37] EISIV LAH PARASA B'CHAR'A - excrement (of an animal) stuck to
her foot
28) [line 41] HAVAH MISCHAZI ME'AVRAI - it would be seen from outside the
body
29) [line 41] GEROGEROS - dried figs
30) [line 41] MAYITZ MAIHU V'SHADI LEHU - he would suck out their juice and
throw them away
31) [line 42] APIKTAH - she took out
32) [line 43] HAI, L'MAI MIBA'I LI? - This, what do I need it for?
33) [line 44] TA V'TZIN'A L'GABAI - come in secret to me
34) [line 47] NEKOT NAFSHACH BI'KETZIREI - make it assumed that you are sick
35) [line 48] V'AISI MIDI SARYA - and bring something that smells rotten
36) [line 49] D'LO LIRGESHAN BACH D'KALIL AT - so that they not feel you
[and notice] that you are too light
37) [line 51] BA'U L'MIDKEREI - that wanted to stab him
38) [line 51] RABAN DAKRU?! - They have stabbed their teacher?!
39) [line 51] L'MIDCHEFEI - to push him
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40) [line 7] LO SHAVKINAN - they do not let us [go out of the city]
41) [line 8] DERAKON - snake, serpent
42) [line 12] "MEFER OSOS BADIM V'KOSMIM YEHALEL; MESHIV CHACHAMIM ACHOR
V'DA'ATAM YESAKEL" - "[I am Hashem, Who] annuls the omens of the
astrologers, and makes the sorcerers into fools; [Who] turns wise men
backwards and makes their knowledge become foolish" (Yeshayah 44:25)
43) [line 13] TZAVTA - tongs
44) [line 15] PERISTEKA - messenger
45) [line 16] HAVAH SAYIM CHAD MESANEI - he (Vespasian) was wearing one shoe
46) [line 17] LO AYAL - it would not go on
47) [line 17] BA'I L'MISHLEFA - he wanted to take [the other shoe] off
48) [line 17] LO NAFAK - it would not come off
49) [line 18] "ME'OR EINAYIM YESAMACH LEV, SHEMU'AH TOVAH TEDASHEN ATZEM." -
"Enlightened eyes will rejoice the heart, good tidings will fatten the
bone." (Mishlei 15:30)
50) [line 19] "LEV SAME'ACH YEITIV GEHAH V'RU'ACH NECHE'AH TEYABESH
GAREM." - "A happy heart is as good as a cure, and a downtrodden spirit will
dry the bone." (Mishlei 17:22)
51) [line 22] MEIZAL AZILNA V'INASH ACHARINA MESHADARNA - I am going [to
Rome], and I will send another man [in my place]
52) [line 23] SHUSHILTA - chain (referring to the familial "chain" of Raban
Gamliel)
53) [line 23] V'ASVASA D'MASYAN LEI - and doctors to cure [Rebbi Tzadok]
54) [line 25] L'SHAVKINHU HADA ZIMNA - leave them this time
55) [line 27] ASHKEYUHA MAYA D'FAREI - they gave him to drink water in which
bran was soaked
56) [line 27] MAYA D'SIPUKA - water in which bran mixed with flour had been
soaked
57) [line 27] MAYA D'KIMCHA - water mixed with flour
58) [line 28] D'RAVACH MEI'EI PURSA PURSA - his intestines widened little by
little
59) [line 31] "SHA'AGU TZORERECHA B'KEREV MO'ADECHA; SAMU OSOSAM OSOS." -
"Your enemies roared in the midst of your appointed place; they made their
signs into signs." (Tehilim 74:4)
60) [line 34] GARGUSNI - a large basket used in winemaking that is suspended
above the collection pit, that strains the juice that flows from the
winepress
61) [line 34] "UV'CHEN RA'ISI RESHA'IM KEVURIM VA'VA'U; UMI'MEKOM KADOSH
YEHALECHU V'YISHTAKCHU VA'IR ASHER KEN ASU; GAM ZEH HAVEL." - "And thus I
saw evil people buried, and they came; and from the holy place they went,
and were forgotten in the city all those who do right; this, too, is
futility." (Koheles 8:10)
62) [line 35] MILEI D'METAMRAN - hidden things (i.e. money and valuables)
63) [line 36] NACHSHOL SHEBA'YAM - storm, a gale on the high sea
64) [line 39] YATUSH - a mosquito or gnat
65) [line 39] D'MA'ALNA - for [it has] a mouth [into which food enters]
66) [line 39] MAFKANA - [but it does not have] an outlet
67) [line 40] CHOTMO - his nostril
68) [line 40] NIKER B'MOCHO - it pecked his brain
69) [line 41] BEI NAFCHA - the house of a blacksmith
70) [line 41] KOL ARZAFTA - the sound of the hammer
71) [line 42] MISTAYEICH D'KA CHAZIS B'SAN'ACH - it suffices for you that
you see your enemy [suffering]
72) [line 43] PATZ'U ES MOCHO - they split open his head
73) [line 44] K'TZIPOR DEROR - (O.F. arondele) a swallow (a type of wild
bird)
74) [line 44] GOZAL - a young bird or pigeon
75) [line 44] MISHKAL SHENEI LITRIN - the weight of two Litra; the Litra is
the Roman Libra, a pound
76) [line 45] PIV SHEL NECHOSES - its mouth was of copper
77) [line 45] TZIPORNAV SHEL BARZEL - its nails were of iron
78) [line 45] LIKALYUHA - burn (cremate) him
79) [line 46] V'LIVDEREI L'KITMEI A'SHEV YAMEI - and scatter his ashes on
seven seas
80) [line 46] V'LUKMEI B'DINA - and stand him up in judgement
81) [line 46] ONKELOS BAR KELONIKUS - Onkelos, the son of Kelonikus
82) [line 47] NEGIDA - the Aramaic name for the witchcraft of Ov
83) [line 48] MILAIHU NEFISHIN - their laws are many
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