sufficient to write on it the signature of the taxgatherers; erased paper
sufficient to wrap round a small bottle of balm--is guilty" (of death).

3. Leather sufficient for an amulet; parchment polished on both sides,
sufficient to write a sign for a door-post; vellum sufficient to write on
it a small portion, which is in phylacteries, that is, "Hear, O Israel;"
ink sufficient to write two letters; kohl(123) sufficient to paint one
eye.

4. Bird-lime sufficient to put on the top of a perch; pitch or sulphur to
fill a hole; wax sufficient to fill the mouth of a small hole; brick-clay
sufficient to make a mouth of a crucible bellows for goldsmiths--Rabbi
Judah says, "sufficient to make a crucible stand;" bran sufficient to put
on the mouth of a crucible blow-pipe for goldsmiths; ointment sufficient
to anoint the little finger of girls--Rabbi Judah says, "sufficient to make
the hair grow;" Rabbi Nehemiah says, "to freshen the temple."

5. Red earth "as the seal of merchants"--the words of R. Akiba; but the
Sages say, "as the seal of letters;" dung and fine sand, "sufficient to
manure a cabbage stalk,"--the words of Rabbi Akiba; but the Sages say,
"sufficient to manure a leek;" coarse sand sufficient to put on a full
lime-hod; a reed sufficient to make a pen. "But if it be thick or split?"
"sufficient to boil with it a hen's egg easy (to be cooked) among eggs,
mixed with oil and put in a pan."

6. A bone sufficient to make a spoon,--Rabbi Judah said, "sufficient to
make the ward of a key;" glass sufficient to scrape the top of a shuttle;
a lump of earth or a stone sufficient to fling at a bird; Rabbi Eliezer
said, "sufficient to fling at a beast."

7. "A potsherd?" "Sufficient to put between two beans,"--the words of Rabbi
Judah; Rabbi Meier says, "sufficient to take away fire with it;" Rabbi
Jose says, "sufficient to receive in it the fourth of a log." Said Rabbi
Meier, "Although there is no visible proof of the matter, there is an
indication of the matter, as is said, 'there shall not be found in the
bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth.' "(124) Rabbi Jose
said to him, "thence is the visible proof, 'or to take water out of the
pit.' "(125)

On The Passover

Searching for Leaven--How Leaven Is to be Put Away--Restrictions
with Regard to It--What Things Make Leaven--Leavening--Work on the
Eve of the Passover--Trades Allowed--Men of Jericho--Hezekiah--The
Daily Offering--Intenti