one poured the wine from vessel to vessel?" "That
vessel from which he poured it is allowed, and that one into which he
poured it is forbidden."

8. Wine of idolatrous libation is forbidden, and even a little of it
renders forbidden--wine in wine, and water in water--how much soever they
be, and wine in water, and water in wine, in giving a taste. This is the
rule: If both be of one sort, however little; if they be of different
sorts, in giving a taste.

9. These things are forbidden, and even a little of them renders other
things forbidden. Wine of idolatrous libation, and idols, and skins of
beasts with the hearts torn out, and an ox that was stoned,(462) and a
heifer that is beheaded,(463) and the birds from the leprosy, and the hair
of the Nazarite,(464) and the first-born of the ass, and flesh in milk,
and the scapegoat, and the profane animals(465) which were slaughtered in
the Temple court. These are forbidden to be mixed with other things; and
if so mixed, even a little of them renders other things forbidden.

10. "Wine of idolatrous libation which has fallen into a vat?" "All its
use is forbidden." R. Simon ben Gamaliel said, "it may all be sold to
heathens, excepting the value of the wine of idolatrous libation which is
in it."

11. "A stone-press which an idolater has prepared with pitch?" "It must be
cleansed, and it is clean." "And if of wood?" Rabbi said, "it should be
cleansed"; and the Sages said, "one must peel off the pitch; but if it be
made of earthenware, even though one peel off the pitch, it is forbidden."

12. "If one buy culinary utensils from an idolater?" "That which it is
usual to dip (in water), one must dip; to scour, one must scour; to whiten
in the fire, one must whiten in fire. The spit and the fork, one must
whiten in the fire;(466) and the knife must be rubbed down, and it is
clean."

The Fathers

The Oral Law--Its Transmission--Names of the
"Receivers"--Maxims--Apothegms--Wisdom of the Wise.

Chapter I

1. Moses received the Oral Law from Sinai and delivered it to Joshua, and
Joshua delivered it to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the
prophets to the men of the great synagogue.(467) They said three things,
"be deliberate in judgment, raise up many disciples, and make a fence for
the law."

2. Simon the Just was one of the last of the men of the great synagogue.
He used to say that the world stood on three things--"on the law, the
serv