read Amnum, and try to
identify it with Mount Hor.

64 Rabbi Judah the Holy, called only Rabbi by way of eminence.

_ 65 I.e._, Defiled oil of the heave-offering, etc.

_ 66 I.e._, They become common property, and are to be depastured by
cattle (Lev. xxv. 7).

67 Perhaps "the star of Bethlehem."

68 A spiral grass growing on the palm tree(?).

69 Arabic, Fustuk. Pistachio nuts.

70 See Chap. ix. 6.

71 This refers to the examples already given of a rose in oil, or
locust fruit in wine.

72 Aisar, a coin worth 3-1/10 farthings.

73 Pundion, a coin worth 1-1/2d.

74 Of the fruits of the Sabbatical year.

75 Of the fruits of the Sabbatical year.

76 Of the fruits of the Sabbatical year.

77 Of the fruits of the Sabbatical year.

78 There are various Rabbis of this name, spelled in different ways,
mentioned in the Talmud.

79 The king's mountain is perhaps Mount Ephraim, or the mountain range
over the plain of Sharon. It is also suggested that it might have
been the mountains round Kirjathjearim (Abu Goosh?). It contained
Cephar Bish, Cephar Sheclaim, Cephar Dikraia, etc.

80 Others read "and the decision is as his word."

81 The second or the "latter" rain (Joel ii. 23), called Malkosh, falls
in spring chiefly during the months of March and April.

82 Lev. xxiii. 22; Deut. xxiv. 19.

83 Deut. xv. 1.

84 This decision supposes the case of the month Elul having thirty
days, and the last day to be in the Sabbatical year; consequently it
would not be one of the two feast days of the new year, which it
should have been if the month had been the usual lunar month.

85 "The defence," called Pruzbul, was a legal document constituted to
encourage loans to the poor, and to protect the interests of the
lender.

86 Deut. xv. 9.

87 Deut. xv. 2.

88 Deut. xix. 4.

_ 89 I.e._, They are well pleased with him.

90 Money owing to Jewish proselytes was generally repaid, but it was
not obligatory to pay it to their heirs, as the persons from whom
the proselytes came were no longer in a religious sense their next
of kin.

91 From private to public property.

92 Of death.

93 On Friday evening.

94 Deut. vi. 4.

95 On Friday evening.

96 Though by their weight they continue to press out oil or wine on the