{ "language": "en", "title": "Keritot", "versionSource": "https://www.sefaria.org", "versionTitle": "Sefaria Community Translation", "license": "CC0", "versionTitleInHebrew": "תרגום קהילת ספריא", "actualLanguage": "en", "languageFamilyName": "english", "isBaseText": false, "isSource": false, "direction": "ltr", "heTitle": "כריתות", "categories": [ "Talmud", "Bavli", "Seder Kodashim" ], "text": [ [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [ " ", "", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", "", "", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", "Rav Ami said, \"That person that wants to know whether [his life] will extend through the year or not, should bring a candle during the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and suspend it in a room where the wind is not blowing. If its light (its flame) continues, he will know that he will take out the year.", "And a person that wants to conduct a business deal and wants to know if the deal will be a successful one or not, should feed a chicken. If it becomes fat and beautiful, he will know that it will be successful.", "That person that wants to go on a journey and wants to know if he will return to his home, should go out and stand in a partially darkened room. If he sees" ], [ "a shadow in the shadow of his shadow, he will know that he will return to his home.\" And this is not a [correct] matter, lest his spirit become weak [as a result] and his [fortune guided by his] constellation will become bad.", "Abbaye said, \"Now that you have said that a sign is a [correct] matter, a man should accustom himself to eating squash, beans, leeks, beets and dates on Rosh Hashanah.\"" ], [ " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", "Rabbi Chana bar Bizna said in the name of Rabbi Shimon Chasida, Any fast that doesn't include the sinners of Israel is not a true fast. For behold galbanum has a foul smell and yet the Scripture counts it among the ingredients of incense. Abaye said it from here, \"...And founded his consortium on the earth...\"(Amos 9:6) " ], [], [], [], [], [ " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " A resident sojourner is permitted to do work on Shabbat for himself like a Yisrael on his intermediary holiday time.", " like a Yisrael on a High Holiday. Rabbi Yossi says: a resident sojourner does work on Shabbat for himself like a Yisrael on a weekday." ] ], "sectionNames": [ "Daf", "Line" ] }