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of the House," as is said, "three times."(353)

2. The school of Shammai say, "the appearance in the Temple is with two
pieces of silver, and the peace-offering with a meah of silver."(354) But
the school of Hillel say, "the appearance is with a meah of silver, and
the feast-offering with two pieces of silver."

3. The burnt-offerings of the appointed feasts come from ordinary money;
but the peace-offering from tithes. "The offerings on the first holiday of
the passover?"(355) The school of Shammai say, "from ordinary money," but
the school of Hillel say, "from tithes."

4. Israelites discharge their duty with vows, with free-will offerings,
and with tithes of animals; and priests with sin-offerings, with
trespass-offerings, and with the breast and shoulder, and first-born, but
not with fowls, nor with meat-offerings.

5. "If one have a large family and small income?" "He must bring more
peace-offerings, and less burnt-offerings." "If a small family and large
income?" "He must bring more burnt-offerings, and less peace-offerings."
"If both be small?" "Of this they say, a silver meah, and two pieces of
silver are sufficient." "If both be large?" "Of this it is said, every man
shall give as he is able according to the blessing of the Lord thy God
which He hath given thee."(356)

6. When one did not bring his peace-offering on the first holiday of the
feast, he may bring it during the holidays, and even on the last day of
the feast. "If the feast passed over, and he did not bring the
peace-offering?" "He is not obliged to bring it." For this it is said,
"that which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting
cannot be numbered."(357)

7. Rabbi Simon, the son of Menasia, said, "if thou shalt say, a thief or a
robber, he may return and become straight." R. Simon, the son of Jochai,
said, "we do not call one crooked, save one straight at first, and he
became afterward crooked; and this is the disciple of the wise, who
departs from the Law."

8. The remission of vows is like flying in the air, and it has no
foundation. The decisions for the Sabbath, peace-offerings, and
trespasses, are as mountains hanging on a hair; because the verse is
small, but the decisions are many. Jurisprudence, and the Temple service,
cleanness and uncleanness, and illegal connections, have their own
foundations; they, they are the body of the law.

Chapter II

1. Men may not discourse on illegal connections with