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1) [line 1] "[VA'YOCHLU VENEI YISRAEL HA'SHAVIM ME'HA'GOLAH] V'CHOL HA'NIVDAL MI'TUM'AS GOYEI HA'ARETZ ALEIHEM." - "[And they ate (the Korban Pesach) -- the children of Yisrael who returned from the exile,] and everyone who had separated from the defilement of the nations of the earth, to [join] them." (Ezra 6:21) 2) [line 2] "VA'YISHMA SANVALAT HA'CHORANI V'TOVIYAH HA'EVED HA'AMONI." - "And Sanvalat the Chorani heard, and Toviyah the Eved from Amon...." (Nechamya 2:10) 3) [line 3] "KI RABIM BI'YEHUDAH BA'ALEI SHEVU'AH LO, KI CHASAN HU LI'SHECHANYAH VEN ARACH, VI'YEHOCHANAN BENO LAKACH ES BAS MESHULAM BEN BERECHYAH." - "Because many in Yehudah were those who had taken an oath [of allegiance] to him (Toviyah), for he was the son-in-law of Shechanyah the son of Arach, and Yehochanan his son married the daughter of Meshulam the son of Berechyah." (Nechamya 6:18)
4a) [line 4] OVED KOCHAVIM V'EVED HA'BA AL BAS YISRAEL HA'VELAD MAMZER -
[according to one opinion,] when an idolater or a Nochri slave has relations
with Jewish woman, the offspring is a Mamzer. 5) [line 7] "V'ELEH HA'OLIM MI'TEL MELACH..." - "And these were the ones who went up from Tel Melach, Tel Charsha: Keruv, Adon, and Imer, and they were unable to relate the house of their father or their mother, whether they were from Yisrael." (Nechamya 7:61) 6) [line 10] TEL MELACH - (lit. a mound of salt) this alludes to the people who repeated the practices of Sedom, the people of which were turned into salt (Devarim 29:22), who had many Mamzerim among them. The Gemara in Sanhedrin (109b) explains that there was a law in Sedom that if one man hit another man's pregnant wife, causing her to miscarry, he was required to live with her until he made her pregnant again, and hence there were many Mamzerim among the people of Sedom.
7) [line 13] KERUV - [as holy as the] Cherub, the angelic being (Yechezkel
10:14)
11) [line 23] KOFSO - ties him up
14) [line 26] B'MUMO POSEL - he accuses others of being unfit with his own
blemish
17) [line 29] SHAMTEI - he placed him in excommunication 20) [line 36] PURSA D'GUNERISA - a small barrier (that is acceptable to fulfill the Mitzvah of Ma'akeh (see Background to Kidushin 34:3), but is not a major construction project that would be unfit for Rav Nachman's social status
21) [line 37] KARPITA - a bench b) [line 41] ANPAK - a cup [of Ispargus -- see previous entry]
24) [line 42] DONAG - the name of Rav Nachman's young daughter
26a) [line 3] SHARI LEI TAGREI - resolve his dispute 27) [line 5] SHI'ATEI - [what is the master's] way of coming (i.e. what brings the master here)
28) [line 5] TASKA D'HANMENUSA - subpoena
32) [line 13] NAGDEI MAR - the master should have given him lashes (MAKAS
MARDUS) 33) [line 19] D'ASINA MI'BEI CHASHMONAI MALKA - that I stem from the family of the Hasmonean kings! 34) [line 22] KOL TALMID CHACHAM SHE'MOREH HALACHAH U'VA - all scholars who cite teachings and Halachic rulings [that are critical to the case at hand] 35) [line 25] CHADA KAR'A A'GUDA, V'CHADA KAR'A B'MAVRA - one foot on the bank and one foot on the ferry (or bridge)
36) [line 31] ZAR'AYASA - families
40) [line 34] B'RAMUS RUCHA - because of his haughtiness
42a) [line 36] GOVA'EI GIVONA'EI - the family known as "Gova'ei" are
Givonim, i.e. Nesinim (see Background to Kidushin 69:12) 43) [line 41] "... V'AMCHA KI'MRIVEI CHOHEN." - "... and your people are like the quarrelsome Kohanim." (Hoshea 4:4) 44) [line 46] "BA'ES HA'HI NE'UM HASH-M EHEYEH LE'LOKIM L'CHOL MISHPECHOS YISRAEL, [V'HEMAH YIHEYU LI L'AM]." - "At that time, says HaSh-m, I will be for a G-d to all of the families of Yisrael, [and they will be unto Me a nation.]" (Yirmeyahu 30:25) - (The reference in the gloss of the Gemara that says Yirmeyahu 31 is an error.)
45) [line 51] SAPACHAS - a mark of Tzara'as on the skin 46) [line 51] "... V'NILVAH HA'GER ALEIHEM V'NISPECHU AL BEIS YAKOV." - "[For HaSh-m will have mercy on Yakov, and will yet choose Yisrael, and set them in their own land;] and foreigners shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Yakov." (Yeshayah 14:1) 47) [line 52] "[ZOS HA'TORAH...] VELA'SE'ES VELA'SAPACHAS [VELA'BEHARES.]" - "This is the law...for the Se'es, and for the Sapachas [and for the Baheres]." (Vayikra 14:54-56) (See above, entry #45)
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