ia, and the Quartesima, and the coronation day of their kings, and
the day of their birth, and the day of their death." The words of R.
Meier. But the Sages say, "every death anniversary in which there is
burning of incense,(439) there is in it the worship of idols. But if there
be no burning of incense there is no worship of idols." "The day of
shaving his beard and cutting his hair, the day of his disembarking from
the sea, and the day of his release from prison, and the day when the
heathen makes a feast for his son?" "It is not forbidden to deal with them
save on this day of his feast, and with this man who keeps the feast
only."

4. "The city in which there exists idolatry outside the city?" "It is
allowed to deal with the idolaters." "If the idolatry be outside?" "Inside
it is allowed." "How is it with going there?" "When the road directly
leads to the place itself, it is forbidden; but if it be possible to go by
it to another place, it is allowed."

5. "If in the city in which there exists idolatry there be shops, some
decorated with idolatrous crowns, and some without decoration?" This was
the case in Bethshan; and the Sages say, "the decorated ones are forbidden
for dealing, and those not decorated are allowed."

6. These things are forbidden to be sold to idolaters--fir-cones, and the
best figs, with their clusters, and incense, and the white cock. R. Judah
said, "it is allowable to sell a white cock among many others. But when a
man has only one, he must cut its claw before he sell it, since the
heathen do not offer that which is blemished in idol worship." And all
other things for ordinary uses are allowed--but if they be declared to be
for idolatry, they are forbidden. R. Meier said, "even the fine dates, and
the date sap,(440) and the Jericho dates, are forbidden for sale to
idolaters."

7. Where they are accustomed to sell small cattle to idolaters, they may
sell them. Where they are unaccustomed to sell them, they must not sell
them. And everywhere they must not sell to them the large cattle, calves,
ass foals, unblemished or blemished. R. Judah allowed the broken-boned;
and Benbethira allowed even horses.

8. Men must not sell to them bears or lions, or anything in which there is
peril to the multitude. They must not build with them royal halls,(441)
judgment-seats, and stadiums,(442) and bemas.(443) But men may build with
them altars and baths. When they reach to the arching in which they place
th