Talmud Illuminated

To purify a non-kosher knife, one wipes it, and it is clean. Rav Ukva bar Chama explained this to mean that he sticks the knife into the gro...

A stone winepress was usually covered with hot pitch, but to counteract the effect of fumes, wine was added to the pitch. Therefore, an idol...

The laws of dry mixtures are different from those of liquids. When prohibited substances are mixed with permitted ones of the same kind, fo...

Libation wine is prohibited for benefit. Some say that the same prohibition applies to today's regular wines, but others maintain that n...

If a Jew took a funnel and measured wine into an idol worshipper's flask, and then took the funnel and measured wine into a Jew's fl...

If a troop of soldiers entered a city and came into a Jews house, then the status of the wine is determined as follows: if this occurred dur...

If an idolatrous harlot is having a meal with Jews, Jewish wine at the table is permitted, because they are interested in her, but not in ma...

Assuming that the flavor that a mouse gives to beer is beneficial, what is the law if it falls into vinegar? There was such a case in Rav Ka...

There was a case when a mouse fell into beer. It stayed there soaking for more than 24 hours, and was therefore considered as if cooked, imp...

Whenever a forbidden substance gets mixed into a kosher dish and it improves the taste of the dish, the result is prohibited; however, w...

If fermented libation wine is mixed with grapes, all agree that since their tastes are distinct, the libation wine makes the grapes forbidde...

If libation wine fell onto grapes, one can rinse them off with water, and they are permissible; however, if the grapes were cracked, they ar...

They asked a question, “If an idol worshipper hires a Jewish worker to break barrels filled with libation wine, what is the law regarding hi...

The prohibition of libation wine is extended to payments received for working with it. In a related incident, the members of the household o...

If an idol worshipper hires a Jewish worker to do work for him in handling libation wine, either to pour it into barrels or to transport the...

Consider the following: a Jew contracts with an idolater to press the idolater's grapes into kosher wine and sell it to Jews, with the u...

If an idolater was found standing beside a Jew's wine cistern, then he may have touched the wine. On the other hand, he knows that by to...

They asked Rav Kahana, may an idol worshipper transport grapes to the winepress? We have previously learned that the juice of grapes ca...

Rabbi Yochanan ben Arza and Rabbi Yose ben Nehorai were sitting and drinking wine. A waiter, whom they took to be a Jew, came by, and they a...

There was an incident in Nahardea in which a Jew and an idolater trod together wine belonging to a Jew. The hands of the idolater did not to...