she may hold for him the water. And he dips the hyssop and sprinkles. If
she take hold of his hand even in the moment of sprinkling, it is
disallowed.

11. "One dipped the hyssop by day and sprinkled by day?" "It is allowed."
"He dipped the hyssop by day and sprinkled by night, by night and
sprinkled by day?" "It is disallowed." "By day, and sprinkled on the day
following?" "It is disallowed." But he himself washed by night, and
sprinkled by day, since we do not sprinkle till the sun rise; and
everything done in sprinkling when the pillar of the morn ascends, is
allowed.

Hands

Pouring Water--Vessels--Water--Who May Pour--How It Is to Be
Poured--Hindrances to Cleanness--Doubting--Primary
Uncleanness--Secondary Uncleanness--Derived Uncleanness--Rabban
Simeon, Son of Gamaliel--Straps of Phylacteries--Rolls of the
Law--Holy Scriptures--Canticles and Ecclesiastes--Foot-baths--Ammon
and Moab--Discussion between Rabbis Eleazar, Ishmael, and
Tarphon--Weeping of R. Eleazar--An Ammonite Proselyte--Chaldee
Writing--Assyrian Writing--The Sadducees--The Books of Homer--The
Pharisees--Writing the Name.

Chapter I

1. A quarter-log(760) of water is poured on the hands of one person; also
on the hands of two persons. Half a log on three or four. From a log for
five, ten, or even 100 (persons). R. Jose says, "provided there be not
less for the last than a quarter-log." Men may add (water) for the second
washing,(761) but they must not add it for the first.

2. They may put water for hands in all vessels, even in vessels of dung or
vessels of stone or vessels of earth. But they must not pour it on hands
out of the (broken) sides of vessels or the bottom of a tub or the bung of
a cask. Nor may one give it to his neighbor out of the hollow of his hand:
because they must not draw or consecrate, or sprinkle the water of
purification, or put it on hands, except it be in a vessel. They can only
preserve vessels by the covering bound(762) upon them. Nor can they
preserve from uncleanness water in open earthen vessels,(763) only in
(covered) vessels.

3. Water which is unfit for animals to drink, is unfit (for washing) in
vessels; but on the ground it is fit. If ink, gum, or vitriol black drop
into it, and its color be changed, it is unfit. If one made use of it, or
soaked his bread in it, it is unfit. Simeon the Temanite said, "even if he
intended to soak it in one vessel and it dropp