question of
uncleanness. Particularity causes division. "But if one wish it to
remain?" "It is reckoned as the trough." "Dough dried up?"(135) "If it be
like that which can become leavened it is forbidden."

3. "How do persons separate the dough-offering when it becomes unclean on
a holiday?" Rabbi Eleazar said, "you cannot call it a dough-offering till
it be baked." Rabbi Judah, the son of Bethira, said, "you must put it in
cold water." Said R. Joshua, "it is not leaven so as to transgress the
negative command 'It shall not be seen nor found,'(136) but it must be
separated and left till the evening. But if it become leavened it is
leavened."

4. Rabban Gamaliel said, "three women may knead at once, and bake in one
oven, each after the other." But the Sages say, "three women may be busied
with the dough, one kneads, and one prepares, and one bakes." Rabbi Akiba
said, "all women, and all wood, and all ovens, are not alike." This is the
rule. "If it ferment it must be smoothed down with cold water."

5. Dough which begins to leaven must be burned, but he who eats it is
free. When it begins to crack it must be burned, and he who eats it must
be cut off. "What is leavening?" "Like the horns of locusts." "Cracking?"
"When the cracks intermingle." The words of R. Judah. But the Sages say,
"if either of them be eaten, the eater must be cut off." "And what is
leavening?" "All which changed its appearance, as when a man's hairs stand
on end through fright."

6. "If the fourteenth day of Nisan happened on the Sabbath?" "They must
clear off all the leaven before the Sabbath begins." The words of R.
Meier. But the Sages say, "in the proper season." Rabbi Eleazar, the son
of Zaduk, said, "the heave-offering before the Sabbath, and ordinary
things in the proper season."

7. "If one went to kill his passover, or circumcise his son, or to eat the
marriage-feast in the house of his father-in-law, and he remembered that
there was leaven in his house?" "If he can he must return and clear it
out, and return to his duties. He must return and clear it away. But if
not, he can esteem it as nothing in his heart." "(If one went) to save a
person from the militia, or from a river, or from robbers, or from
burning, or from the fall of buildings?" "He may esteem it as nothing in
his heart." "But if he is reposing at his ease?" "He must return
off-hand."

8. And so also when one went forth from Jerusalem and remembered that he
had holy fles